Though most people can identify inventors Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, they may never have heard of Lewis Latimer or Granville T. Woods, Edison's and Bell's equally brilliant Afr...
966 viewsThe Most Dangerous Female Mobsters In History From smuggling to killing, Casinos to illegal substances, the Mafia has done it all. And for the most part, Men have been at the centre of the discu...
754 viewsNarrated by Blair Underwood, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is set in the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided 1930's America, torn between boycotting Hitler's Olympics...
1,380 viewsTo commemorate 45 years since the passing of civil and human rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, Monica Land, Mrs. Hamer’s great-niece and executive producer of FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMER...
1,189 viewsFor the family of Fannie Lou Hamer, she was a woman of power and presence as a civil and human rights activist. But to Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, Monica Land, and Jimmy Lee Lacey, she was also so much m...
1,287 viewsPamela Grier is an American actress. Grier became known in the early 1970s for starring in a string of women in prison and blaxploitation films such as The Big Bird Cage (1972), Coffy (1973), Foxy Bro...
988 viewsThere are few Chicago historical figures whose life and work speak to the current moment more than Ida B. Wells, the 19th century investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and passionate suffragi...
955 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 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...
1,569 viewsRev. Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister of Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, is on a mission to eradicate racism — especially within the church she loves. Though Rev. Lewis’s o...
1,049 viewsOur website: https://www.shatteredparadisepresents.com/ Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shatteredparadise Donate Via Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/ShatteredParadise Demons are ...
1,001 views(1970) A round table discussion facilitated by Jean Fairfax on the being Black in America. Queen Mother Amina Baraka silences everyone with her commanding convictions to appeal to her fellow siste...
1,193 viewsWallace Fard Muhammad is believed to have disappeared in 1934, leaving Elijah Muhammad in charge of the Nation of Islam. A key convert was prisoner Malcolm Little, who made the NOI famous with his fre...
962 viewsThis episode looks at the faces within the welfare rolls, and echoing them, finds defeat, degradation, and "an aura of illegitimacy" engendered by "c...
961 viewsAdam Clayton Powell, Jr. (November 29, 1908 -- April 4, 1972) was an American politician and pastor who represented Harlem, New York City, in the United States House of Representatives (1945--71). Abo...
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