A methodical case is made against black megachurches, detailing how they’ve acted as predatory leaches on the Christian black community. “You boast that you serve me, but in truth you serve your ...
1,601 viewsIn this this archival documentary from PBS Wisconsin, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered on April 5, 1968, the day after his assassination. Combining studio interviews of community and civic lea...
858 viewsWant to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This silent 1968 footage documents civil unrest in ...
850 viewsOn this episode of 'MINORITY REPORTS,' we met up with Tiago, a white freshman at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Atlanta that counts Martin Luther King, Jr. and Spike Lee as alumni. We sat ...
763 views“American Black Journal” previews a new PBS documentary series, “Making Black America: Through the Grapevine” by noted historian and storyteller Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. The series focuses ...
768 viewsOn Thursday, February 24, SBA hosted an online event to celebrate Black History Month. The event featured a conversation with SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr...
902 viewsThe U.S. never fulfilled its promise of "40 acres and a mule" to formerly enslaved people. If America granted reparations today, what would they look like, and who wo...
1,088 viewsMilton Freidman, in the fourth segment of the series, shows why he believes government-run welfare programs do not help the people they are intended to help or achieve the ends they are intended to ac...
1,158 viewsPart I of a documentary film produced for NET looking at how and why Howard University (Washington D.C.) was shut down by African American students, who occupied the Administration Building over four ...
1,186 viewsDavid Susskind's historical, long and intimate interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Originally aired on June 9, 1963 by WPIX-TV New York. Among the subjects discussed were the current state...
873 viewsCentered on the relationship between black Republicans, the G.O.P., and civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s, Josh Farrington of the University of Kentucky contends that black Republicans prior ...
939 viewsIn May 2004, after receiving an award at the celebration of the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling—a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that outlawed school racia...
1,075 viewsRead the book: COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Feder...
1,144 viewsIS THE BLACK CHURCH DEAD? A ROUNDTABLE ON THE FUTURE OF BLACK CHURCHES During the first few months of 2010 a new, yet familiar, debate broke out about the role of black churches in the United State...
914 viewsA recently donated film to the Public Policy collections of the Mudd Manuscript Library, long thought lost has been digitized and is now viewable online. Segregation and the South,a film produced in 1...
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