This 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...
972 viewsLittle Rock, Arkansas's, West 9th Street was once a vibrant, African-American business and entertainment district. Taborian Hall is the only remaining historic structure on West 9th Street and st...
783 viewsWhat was it like being black in the 1980s? Black life in the 1980s was at times beautiful, at times scary, and always complicated. The rise of black celebrity and culture did not translate into a ris...
1,479 viewsThe 1960s was the decade of the counterculture, which encouraged a revolution of social norms in clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and education. Some also describe the decade as ...
889 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...
1,216 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...
1,200 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...
1,190 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...
1,224 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...
1,254 viewsLittle Rock, Arkansas's, West 9th Street was once a vibrant, African-American business and entertainment district. Taborian Hall is the only remaining historic structure on West 9th Street and st...
1,134 viewsFor three decades, the film canisters sat undisturbed in a cellar beneath the Swedish National Broadcasting Company. Inside was roll after roll of startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage shot in ...
1,560 viewsThe influence of Malcolm X. On the fourth anniversary of his death,an assessment of this impact on the present black movement, and a recollection of the man himself by his widow Betty Shabazz. Cr...
1,248 viewsThe Sound of Jazz - Documentary (1957) Complete with the original commercials, here is the original December 8, 1957 broadcast of "The Sound of Jazz". Featuring Co...
1,129 viewsThe Last Angel of History by John Akomfrah (1995) deals with concepts of Afrofuturism as a metaphor for the displacement of black culture and roots. The film is a hybrid documentary and fictional nar...
1,205 viewsLouis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive&quot...
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