From Internet Archives: 0:12:13 Delta Rhythm Boys in Take the 'A' Train (1941). 0:14:46 Fats Waller in Your Feet's Too Big (1941). 0:17:45 Count Basie Orchestra in "...
775 viewsThis episode of Chicago Stories traces the birth and growth of gospel music in Chicago in the 1930s. The story follows "The Father of Gospel", Thomas A. Dorsey, who w...
1,043 viewsHow Black-owned funeral homes in New Orleans have navigated the coronavirus pandemic and its racially disproportionate toll. A co-production between FRONTLINE, Firelight Media and WORLD Channel. Th...
1,184 viewsTWO DOLLARS AND A DREAM is the biography of Madame C.J. Walker, America's first self-made millionairess. Mrs. Walker's fortune was built on skin and hair care products, parlaying a homemade ...
1,122 viewsToni Morrison gives insight into her works Paradise and The Bluest Eye, criticizes sloppy criticism, and explains the challenge of writing about race for African-American writers. Check out these T...
1,223 viewsHear from leaders in Kansas City’s black community including the president of the Negro Leagues Museum, Bob Kendrick, author Larry Lester, and more as they discuss the importance of the league in th...
1,300 viewsA fabled and famed American infantry regiment during World War 1. In spite of prejudice at home, these African American soldiers proved themselves valiant Americans on the battlefield. Famed musician ...
1,172 viewsThe Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negr...
2,021 viewsjazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries, directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Informational). Its chr...
1,247 viewsjazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries, directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Informational). Its chr...
1,226 viewsjazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries, directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Informational). Its chr...
1,210 viewsjazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries, directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Informational). Its chr...
1,250 viewsjazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries, directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Informational). Its chr...
1,276 viewsTributes to labor leader A. Philip Randolph, who celebrates his 80th birthday on April 15th, and Paul Robeson Sr., on the 71st anniversary of his birth. Black Culture in the Deep South ranges ...
1,198 viewsA documentary behind the making of four Great albums in 1959. Featuring Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus & Ornette Coleman.....
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