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AASRP Video Library November 21, 2005

In alphabetical order
* = study guide in checkout binder:

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A

1. 4 Little Girls: September 15, 1963. It could have been a regular day in the life of Americans everywhere. Instead it became a day that would change their lives without mercy. Spike Lee takes an in-depth look at one of America’s most terrible crimes, and the impact it had on the civil rights movement.
2. Affirmative Action: The History of an Idea: Filmmakers. Portrait of a legendary African American leader as well as a fascinating look at the beginning of modern black politics in this country. The film follows the political climb of Powell in Harlem during the 1930s Depression. Under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson Powell was instrumental in passing much of the social legislation known as “The Great Society.” At the peak of his power, he was the most influential black man in America. (54 minutes). 12/98
3. Affirmative Action Under Fire: When is it Reverse Discrimination?This program explores the historical roots of affirmative action and the current debates over its usefulness. The program looks at several different affirmative action programs today, from the University of California-Berkeley, where the university is struggling with how to maintain diversity without minority preferences, to the city of Chicago, where affirmative action programs for its police and fire departments are being challenged. The program includes archival footage and features interviews with a wide array of academic scholars. (56 minutes)
4. Affirmative Action Under Seige: What’s At Stake for Our Campuses, Careers & Communities? In 1989, a New Jersey high school faced a painful decision: one of two teachers with equal tenure and equivalent credentials—one African-American, the other Caucasian—had to be laid off. By 1995, the reverse discrimination complaint lodged by Caucasian teacher Sharon Taxman had become a national issue of great political and legal significance, leading to a surprising out-of-court settlement funded by civil rights groups. In this program ABC News correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on that remarkable case, while anchor Cokie Roberts moderates a spirited debate between the President of the NAACP and the Director of Litigation from the Institute for Justice. (22 minutes, color)
5. Africa: The Story of a Continent : Eight programs span the years from early civilizations and centuries of slavery to colonial rule and independence. Archival film, interviews, eyewitness accounts, and dramatic reconstructions emphasize the achievements of the African people and the importance of their story.
6. African American History Month: Clayborne Carson, 2/98
7. African American History Month: Georgia Powers, 2/98
8. African American History Month: Reflecting ‘B(l)ackward:’ the 1968 Black Student Union

   Movement at the University of Kentucky
9. African Americans, Part 1
10. African Americans, Part 2
11. African American Heroes of World War II: This video is a salute to the dedicated African-Americans who served their country so heroically during World War II.
12. African American Leaders of the 20th Century
13. African American Quilting: The Cloth Sings To Me: In this video, we meet the ebullient women quilters who display their colorful creations. Many of the women incorporate African fabrics into their work, thus enhancing their connection to their roots. Here is an art form made from remnants, where every scrap of fabric has its history.
14. African American Quilting: The Sprit of the Individual: In this video, we meet the ebullient women quilters who display their colorful creations. Many of the women incorporate African fabrics into their work, thus enhancing their connection to their roots. Here is an art form made from remnants, where every scrap of fabric has its history.
15. African Healing Dance: In African, dance is much more than physical movement- it is a direct way to celebrate life and create healing. This video is a step by step course on the healing tradition and expressive movements that are unique to Africa’s dance heritage.
16. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, Vol. 1 The Terrible Transformation
17. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, Vol. 2 Revolution
18. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, Vol. 3 Brotherly Love
19. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, Vol. 4 Judgment Day
20. Africans in Kentucky: KET. Dr. Gerald Smith, Dr. Ann Butler, Dr. James Klotter discuss African Americans in Kentucky. Done as a companion piece for the PBS special, Africans in America. 26.50 min. 12/98
21. Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance: This documentary, narrated by actor Joe Morton, tells how black artist triumphed over formidable odds. It features more than 130 rarely seen paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures by black artist and even more rarely seen archival footage of those artists at work.
22. Alex Haley’s Queen: There are two sides to every story, the saying goes. For Alex Hayley, one side was Roots, the towering chronicle tracing seven generations of his mother’s family. The other side cones to the screen in Alex Hayley’s Queen, the remarkable history of the paternal side of the author’s family. Halle Berry plays Queen, daughter of slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures of her heritage-and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will, however.
23. Ali, Muhammad: Skill, Brains, & Guts (Legends of the Ring): As a part of the Legends of the Ring Series, this video chronicles the rise, the fall, and the return to glory of Muhammad Ali, one of boxing’s most colorful champions. Ali gleefully played poet, prophet and self-promoter, earning himself the nickname “Louisville Lip.” Fight footage and interviews with Ali detail the many facets of his career. (87 minutes)
24. All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party and Beyond: Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race conflict in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the mid 1960’s. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, the party soon embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and the black brown and Native American Power movements which it helped pioneer.
25. All that Jazz: Wynton Marsalis: Wynton Marsalis won Grammy Awards for both jazz and classical music at the age of 22. This stylishly produced program opens at Wynton’s studio in New York City, where he talks about his philosophy, his compositional methods, and his laid-back yet demanding approach to working with other musicians. Intimate performance footage of Wynton, his band members, and his father Ellis is included.
26. Amazing Grace: Black Women in Sport: Produced by the Black Women in Sport Foundation and narrated by Robin Roberts, this video highlights the accomplishments of many of America’s premier black female athletes. Among those athletes featured in the video are Florence Griffith Joyner, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudolph, Zina Garrison, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Debi Thomas, and Dominique Dawes.
27. America Beyond the Color Line: Following his acclaimed PBS series, Wonders of the African World, Harvard’s chair of Afro-American Studies, Henry Louis Gates now travels the length and breadth of the United States to take the temperature of modern black America at the start of the new century. For Gates, this is both the best and worst of times. Black Americans are center stage in almost every arena and opportunities have opened up which just three decades ago seemed unimaginable. But huge obstacles remain: African Americans say they still feel excluded from mainstream American life and a fifth of all black Americans currently live below the poverty line. Gates travels to four different parts of American-the East Coast, the deep South, inner city Chicago, and finally, Hollywood. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geographic. And he meets the people who are defining black America, from the most famous and influential-Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Fannie Mae’s Franklin Raines, Jesse Jackson, Russell Simmons, Alicia Keys, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman-to those at the grassroots.
28. American History for Children:African American Life: Topics featured in this video include: The Journey from Africa to Slavery, Resisting Slavery, Segregation, The Civil Rights Movement, The Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., African Americans Today. (25 min., Grades K-4)
29. American History X: In the wake of his father’s murder, Derek Vinyard finds himself overcome by feelings of hate and rage. Mentored by a local white supremacist, Derek quickly becomes the group’s charismatic young leader. His life begins to spin out of control and he finds himself in prison, sentenced for a brutal murder. Three years later, Derek is released from prison only to find that his younger brother is following in his footsteps and it is up to him to look deep within his past to save his brothers future.
30. Amistad: Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor’s ship and attempt to return to their homeland. When the ship, La Amistad, is seized, these captives are brought to the United States where they are charged with murder and await their fate in prison.
31. An Angry Man? The Trial of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin: In the 1960s, H. Rap Brown was a household name, a vocal civil rights activist who scared white America with a fiery rhetoric of violence. Now Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former Black Panther since converted to Islam, is back in the national spotlight accused of killing a deputy sheriff in Atlanta. This program examines the murder case in the context of who Ali-Amin was and who he has been since changing his name and beliefs while in prison in the 1970s.
32. The Ancient Africans
33. Ancient Tribes: The Zulus: For centuries the Zulus had no power of land and paid tribute to stronger neighbors. Their rise to one of the most powerful empires to ever exist was the result of one man’s ambition, King Shaka. Shaka forged a military state in which all males were obligated to fight.
34. Angelou, Maya: Intimate Portrait: Honored by presidents and revered by scholars, Maya Angelou’s life is a collection of great achievements as well as personal tragedy. The child of a broken home, Angelou was raped when she was 7 years old and became mute for six years. In her teens, Maya made history when she became San Francisco’s first black streetcar conductor. She was an unmarried mother at 16 and by 30, Angelou had been a showgirl and an actress. (45 minutes)
35. Apartheid Revisited: Confronting History: This program follows a group of American students on a field trip across South Africa, as they learn about the nation’s political struggle against apartheid. Developed by the Bill of Rights Education Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, “Project HIP-HOP,” as it is called, allows students to meet with anti-apartheid activists who shaped history. Members of the project group visit key landmarks, veterans of the anti-apartheid movement, a Zulu village, and museums; they meet with student leaders of today exchange ideas and experiences, and compare the American civil rights movement with the South African anti-apartheid movement. Students are encouraged to develop a better understanding of the extent to which they can affect the course of civil rights in the U.S. A Cambridge Educational Production.
36. Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Bill Moyers: Renowned as a voice of conscience in apartheid South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu—Nobel laureate and Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)—has spent his life opposing his nation’s discriminatory policies. In a powerful interview with prize-winning journalist Bill Moyers, this courageous Anglican prelate discusses his life and work and shares his thoughts on justice, truth, and forgiveness—so timely at the end of a century notorious for genocide and flagrant human rights violations. The Archbishop candidly describes his experiences during three years traveling the country to unflinchingly gather atrocity testimony. Archbishop Tutu and Mr. Moyers also discuss the TRC’s international impact as a model and what America in particular can learn from South Africa’s attempt at reconciliation. Although expressions of remorse and the granting of forgiveness between perpetrators and victims have not been universal, the Archbishop devoutly hopes that his troubled nation can find closure with its past so that it can pave the way to a brighter future—for everyone. (60 minute, color)
37. Art of Darkness: The slaves of the Caribbean contributed not only to the wealth of their masters, but also to the cultural heritage of the British Empire. Documented in fascinating detail through letters, paintings and poetry, the eighteenth century is shown to be both an age of high culture and an age of cruelty. Again and again we see in works of art that the black servants were depicted as a precious, exotic ornament, even as they were brutalized in real life. (52 minutes)
38. Art, Women, History: The Luba People of Central Africa:
39. The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.: This revealing video examines the government’s involvement in the harassment of Dr. King, using a variety of recently declassified information—including private conversations taped at the Johnson White House—to reexamine the counter-intelligence programs that preceded King’s assassination. Also included are interviews concerning King’s life and death with Rev. James Lawson, reporter Wayne Chastain, author Athan Theoharris, and Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles. (90 minutes)
40. At the River I Stand: This video reconstructs the two eventful months in the spring of 1968 which led to the tragic death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights Movement. The sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Dr. King’s nationwide Poor People’s Campaign, and the aftermath of his assassination are discussed in this fitting tribute both to Dr. King’s charismatic leadership and to the grassroots activism that lay at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement. (56 minutes)
41. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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B

1. Back to Jasper: A Town Meeting on Racism and Bias Crime: In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel moderates a town meeting of the citizens of Jasper. The townsfolk speak on the horrific slaying of James Byrd while grappling with the legacy of distrust between African-Americans and Caucasians that has undermined Jasper, Texas, progressive efforts toward racial unity.
2. Baldwin, James: The Price of the Ticket: This award-winning biography captures the passionate intellect and courageous writing of a man who was born impoverished, gay, gifted, and black. It examines his legacy as a major twentieth century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling black and white Americans to confront their shared racial tragedy. (87 minutes)
3. Basie, Count: Ralph Gleason’s Jazz Casual:
4. Becoming A Woman in Okrika: This is a visually stunning film documenting an extraordinary coming of age ritual in a village in the Niger Delta. It suggests the conflict Third World women face between traditions and the values of the modern world.
5. Beloved: On a difficult journey to find freedom, Sethe (Winfrey) is constantly confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, and old friend from out of her past (Glover) unexpectedly reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope.
6. Beyond Black and White: Affirmative Action in America: In this Fred Friendly Seminar moderated by Harvard Law School’s Charles Ogletree, a what-if scenario revolves around a university’s efforts to enroll a diverse student body of qualified candidates.
7. Big Mama: This Academy Award winning story captures the essence of one grandmother’s struggle to raise her orphaned grandson.
8. Biko: Braking the Silence
9. Bird Now: A Tribue to Jazz Legend Charlie Parker
10. Birth Struggle of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
11. Black American Literature *
12. Black America’s Biggest Threat
13. Black Athena
14. The Black Athlete: Winners or Losers in Academia?
15. Black Caesar
16. Black Diamonds, Blues City
17. Black Fraternities and Sororities: A Glorious Past, The Road Ahead
18. Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed?
19. Black Is…Black Ain’t *
20. Blacks & Jews
21. Black Like Who?
22. Black Panther and San Francisco State: On Strike
23. Black Power, White Backlash--1966
24. The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (accompanying CD) Blacks in America: Life in the Norht, 1979
25. Black Sugar: Slavery From an African Perspective
26. Black Studies at the Crossroads
27. Black Theater: The Making of a Movement: Recaptures the birth of a new kind of theatre out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. A video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement which transformed the American stage.
28. Black, White and Angry
29. Bloody Island: The Race Riots of East St. Louis
30. Blue Eyed
31. Blues Masters: The Essential History of the Blues, Volume 1
32. Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
33. Body and Soul
34. Broken Pledges: Fraternities and Sororities at the Crossroads
35. Brown vs. The Board of Education
36. Burden on the Land: A comprehensive look at Africa’s future as it faces the 21st Century. It addresses the root causes of famine and suggests reasons why development efforts in African have been so disappointing. Examines the sub-Saharan countries – Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Mali, Ethiopia, and Uganda. The documentary clarifies the conflicts and interrelated issues of politics, health, environment, and culture.
37. Burning All Illusions: Writings from the nation on race
38. Busing: Complying with Swann in 1976

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C

1. Cabin In The Sky
2. Can’t You Hear The Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
3. CBS Reports: The Harlem Temper
4. CBS Sports: Glory in Black & White
5. Celebration! A Caribbean Festival
6. A Century of Black Cinema
7. The Chicago Riots
8. Clark, Twinkie & Friends
9. Clockers
10. Coffy
11. Color-Blind: Fighting Racism in Schools
12. The Color Line on Campus--1963
13. The Color of Courage
14. Colors Straight Up
15. The Comedian
16. The Continent That Overslept: Africa
17. Considering Reparations: Paying the Debt for Slavery
18. A Conversation on Race: Black, White, or Other?
19. A Conversation With Angela Davis And Patricia Hill Collins
20. A Conversation With Rosa Parks
21. Cry the Beloved Country
22. Culturally-Competent Counseling & Therapy Part 1

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D

1. The Darker Side of Black
2. Daughters of the Dust: A Film By Julie Dash
3. Digging for Slaves: The Excavation of American Slave Sites
4. Diversity in Higher Education: Can We Meet The Challenge?
5. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
6. Dizzy Gillespie
7. Dizzy’s Dream Band
8. Douglass, Frederick: An American Life
9. DuBois, W.E.B.

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E

1. The Ebonics Controversy
2. Educational Video Network (African American Leaders Of The 20TH Century)
3. Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For
4. Eminent Scholar/Teachers: Black American Literature
5. The End of the Golden Age of the Black Athlete (vols. 1-5)
6. Enhancing Race Relations on Campus: New Challenges & Opportunities
7. Environmental Racism
8. Ethiopia: The Kingdom of Judas Lion
9. Ethnic Notions
10. Eyes on the Prize: Vol. I, Awakenings (1954-56), Fighting Back (1957-1962)
11. Eyes on the Prize: Vol. II, Ain’t Scared of Your Jails (1960-61), No Easy Walk
12. Eyes on the Prize: Vol. III, Mississippi: Is this America? (1962-64), Bridge To Freedom (1965)
13. Eyes on the Prize: Trilogy
14. Eyes on the Prize: Vol. IV, The Time Has Come (1964-66), Two Societies (1965-68)
15. Eyes on the Prize: Vol. V, Power! (1966-68), The Promised Land (1967-68)
16. Eyes on the Prize: Vol. VI, Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972), A Nation of Law! (1968-71)
17. ) Eyes on the Prize: Vol. VI, The Keys to the Kingdom (1979-80), Back to the Movement (1979-Mid 1980s)

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F

1. The Fabulous Four: Boxing Greatest Four Way Rivalry
2. Family Across the Sea
3. Fanon, Frantz: Black Skin, White Mask
4. Fathers, Sons, & Unholy Ghosts
5. Fitzgerald, Ella: Forever Ella
6. Flight to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
7. Forgotten Fires
8. For Us, The Living
9. Foxy Brown
10. Free At Last: Civil Rights Heroes
11. Freedom Bags
12. Freedom on My Mind
13. The Freedom Train
14. From Harlem to Harvard

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G

1. Get on the Bus
2. The Glory of Expression
3. God and the Inner City: Inside Three Faith –Based Social Programs
4. God Is Angry: The Black Power Movement
5. Goin’ to Chicago
6. Goree: Door of No Return
7. Go Tell It on the Mountain
8. Great Black Women
9. Growing Up African American: Gaining and Appreciation of Your Cultural Heritage

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H

1. Harlem: A Self-Portrait
2. Hate Groups USA
3. Hellhounds On My Trail
4. Higher Learning
5. Hip Hop SP
6. The History Channel
7. Homecoming
8. Hooks, bell: Cultural Criticism and Transformation
9. How Biased Are You?
10. How Firm A Foundation
11. Hughes, Langston: His Life and Times
12. Hymn to Freedom: Blacks in Canada, Quebec
13. Hymn to Freedom: Blacks in Canada, Nova Scotia
14. Hymn to Freedom: Blacks in Canada, Ontario
15. Hymn to Freedom: Blacks in Canada, British Columbia

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I

1. Images & Realities: African American Women (vol. I)
2. Images & Realities: African American Men (vol. II)
3. Images & Realities: African American Children (vol. III)
4. Images & Realities: The African American Family (vol. IV)
5. Images of Black Women in Sports
6. Imitation of Life
7. Imitation of Life: (Claudette Colbert)
8. In Dannku the Soup is Sweeter: Women and Development in Ghana
9. In Remembrance of Martin
10. In Search of Our Fathers
11. Integration: Complying with Brown in 1957
12. In the Name of God: Helping Circumcised Women
13. Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
14. I Remember Harlem: The Early Years, 1600-1930
15. I Remember Harlem: The Depression Years, 1930-1940
16. I Remember Harlem: Toward Freedom, 1940-1965
17. I Remember Harlem: Toward a New Day, 1965-1980

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J

1. Jack Johnson Breaking Barriers
2. Jackson, Mahalia: The Power and the Glory
3. John Coltrane
4. Johnson, Charles: In Black and White
5. Johnson, Jack: Breaking Barriers (Legends of the Ring)
6. Jones, Cleopatra
7. The Journey of the African-American Athlete
8. Jungle Fever
9. Justice Delayed…But Not Denied

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K

1. Keita: The Heritage of the Griot
2. Ku Klux Klan: The Invisible Empire
3. Kwanzaa: A Cultural Celebration

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L

1. Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
2. The Language You Cry In: The Story of a Mende Song
3. The Last Story Quilt
4. Legacy
5. A Lesson Before Dying
6. Let’s Do It Again
7. Liberia: The Promised Land
8. The Life of a Black Cop
9. Little Things: When Prejudice is Unintentional
10. Living Black and White
11. Long Night’s Journey Into Day: South Africa’s Search for Truth and Reconciliation
12. Lowndes County Freedom Party: The Rise of the Black Panthers
13. Lumumba: Death of a Prophet
14. Lying Lips

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M

1. The Mack
2. Maids and Madams
3. Making Diversity Work
4. Malcom X: Make It Plain
5. Mama Benz: An African Market Woman
6. Mama Flora’s Family
7. Mama, There’s a Man in Your Bed
8. Man, God, and Africa
9. Mandela, Nelson: The Man and His Country
10. Martin, Dr. Charles H.: The Racial Politics of College Athletics: The University of Kentucky and Southeastern Conference
11. Martin’s Lament: Religion and Race in America
12. Martin Luther King Commemorative Collection
13. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Legacy
14. Martin Luther King: The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
15. Material Witness: Race, Identity and the Politics of Gangsta Rap
16. Memphis Dreams: Searching for the Promised Land
17. Menace II Society
18. Men of Color: Absence in Academia
19. The Middle Passage
20. Mississippi America
21. Mississippi and the Black Vote--1962
22. Moko Jumbie: Traditional Stilt Walkers
23. Morrison, Toni: In Black and White
24. Multi-Cultural Influences On The Founding Fathers
25. Multiculturalism or Afrocentricity?
26. The Music District
27. Murder in Mississippi: The Price of Freedom

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N

1. Native Son
2. Native Son (Richard Wright)
3. Naylor, Gloria: In Black and White
4. The New South Africa: A Personal Journey
5. Nothing But the Truth

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O

1. Oh Freedom After While
2. One Drop Rule
3. One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star Tribute
4. One Shot: The Life and Work of Teenie Harris
5. Only the Ball Was White
6. On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
7. Ori
8. The Other Face of Dixie
9. Out of Obscurity

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P

1. Paints Crown Heights
2. Paris Is Burning
3. Parks, Rosa: The Path to Freedom
4. Perfect Image?
5. The Politics of Love: In Black and White
6. Porgy and Bess: An American Voice
7. Powell, Adam Clayton
8. Pride & Prejudice: A History of Black Culture in America http://www.blackplanet.com/Login/guestlogin.html
9. The Promised Land: (Take Me To Chicago, A Dream Deferred, and Strong Men Keep A-Comin’ On)
10. Protect and Serve? De-Policing in Urban Neighborhoods

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Q

1. A Question of Color

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R

1. Race Relations in Higher Education: A Prescription for Empowerment and Progress
2. Race the Power of an Illusion: (Episode One) The Difference Between Us
3. Race the Power of an Illusion: (Episode Two) The Story We Tell
4. Race the Power of an Illusion: (Episode Three) The House We Live In
5. Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement
6. A Raisin in the Sun
7. Raising Self-Esteem for African-American Students
8. Ralph Ellison’s Legacy
9. Randolph, A. Philip
10. Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat
11. Rap, Race, and Equality
12. Reaching The Finish Line: Black Athletes and Civil Rights
13. Rebel Music: The Bob Marley Story
14. Reflecting On Life Experience: African American Perspectives
15. Remedy for a Riot
16. The Revival of Black Literature
17. Rhyme & Reason
18. The Right to be NUBA
19. The Rise in Campus Racism: Causes and Solutions
20. The Road to Brown
21. The Rodney King Incident: Race and Justice in America
22. Rollins, Sonny: Ralph Gleason’s Jazz Casual
23. Roots (vols. 1-6)
24. Roots: The Next Generation
25. The Roots of Black American Painting
26. Rosewood

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S

1. Sankofa
2. Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
3. Saving The Native Son: Empowerment Strategies For Young Black Males
4. Say Amen, Somebody
5. Segregation, Northern-Style--1964
6. Selma: The City and the Symbol
7. Seniors: Four Years in Retrospect
8. Seoul II Soul
9. Separate and Unequal: The Economics of Poverty
10. Separate But Equal
11. The Serpent and the Rainbow
12. Shackles of Memory: The Atlantic Slave Trade
13. The Shackled Immigrants
14. Shaft
15. Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty
16. She’s Gotta Have It
17. Ships of Slaves: The Middle Passage
18. The Silent Killer: AIDS in South Africa
19. Skin Deep: College Students Confronting Racism
20. Skin Deep: The Science of Race
21. The Sky is Gray
22. Slam: All in Line for a Slice of Devil Pie
23. Slavery in America
24. Solomon Northrup’s Odyssey
25. A Son of Africa
26. South Africa
27. South Central Los Angeles: Inside Voices
28. Speak Of Me As I Am
29. Sports & Society: Race, Stereotyping & sports
30. The State of Black Health Care
31. Still Revolutionaries
32. The Strange Demise of Jim Crow Struggles in Steel: The Fight for Equal Opportunity*
33. A String of Pearls
34. A Study in Desegregation: Clinton, Tennessee--1957
35. Sugar Cane Alley
36. Sugar Ray Robinson: Pound for Pound (Legends of the Ring)
37. Super Fly
38. Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation: Plessy v. Ferguson
39. Suzanne, Suzanne
40. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

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T

1. Telling It Like It Is
2. Ten Years After Brown: The Court and the Schools--1964
3. Testament of a Murdered Man: Medgar Evers
4. That’s Black Entertainment: African-American Contributions in Film and Music 1905-1944
5. There Will be Peace
6. To Kill A Mockingbird
7. Tongues Untied
8. Too Close to Heaven: The History of Gospel Music, in 3 parts
9. To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race
10. Trading in Africans: Dutch Outposts
11. The Truth About Slavery In History
12. The Tuskegee Airmen
13. This House Of Power
14. Tuskegee
15. Two Dollars and a Dream (Madame C. J. Walker)
16. Two Towns of Jasper and America’s Racial Divide
17. Tyson, Mike: The Inside Story (Legends of the Ring)

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U

1. Unchained Memories
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
3. Underground Railroad
4. Understanding Prejudice: Gripes and Common Ground
5. Understanding Race
6. Understanding the Civil Rights Movement: Part 1
7. Understanding the Civil Rights Movement: Part 2
8. Upon This Rock
9. Uptown Saturday Night

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V

1. Visual Jazz
2. Voices of Cabrini
3. Voices of Power: African American Women

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W

1. Walk A Mile In My Shoes: Part 1
2. Walk A Mile In My Shoes: Part 2
3. Walker, Alice: In Black and White
4. Walker, Alice: Possessing the Secret of Joy
5. Wandering Warrior
6. Washington, George: A Film by David Gordon Green (DVD)
7. Watts: Riot or Revolt?
8. Watts, Then and Now 1965-1991
9. We Can Get Along: A Blueprint for Campus Unity
10. We Shall Overcome
11. Where Did You Get That Woman?
12. Where Do We Go From Here? A Dialogue on Race
13. Who Speaks for the South?
14. Wideman, John: In Black and White: John Widemans’ trilogy Sent for you Yesterday, Damballah and Hiding Place has turned Homewood, the Pittsburgh ghetto where he was raised, into a mythic place in the American literary imagination like Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. In books like Philadelphia Fire, the account of an infamous police action which burned an entire black neighborhood, or Brothers and Keepers, his memoir of his brother now serving a life term for murder, Wideman has given voice to people not usually heard in American literature. In this film, Wideman candidly discusses the dilemma of the committed African American intellectual torn between the urban underclass and a predominatly white, middle class literary audience. He writes because, “African Americans have to carry alternative versions of reality in our heads and the model for doing that exists in art.”
15. Wild Style: Filmed entirely on location in the South Bronx, Wild Style is a time capsule of the true origins of the Old School and the amazing break-out of the hip-hop culture.
16. Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues: This video brings to life the story of Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ida Cox, and other pioneering blues women from early in the century. We learn of their vision and their struggle, their pain and their humor, their unflagging spirit, and most of all, their legendary music. The film compiles for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues to commentary by Koko Taylor. (58 minutes)
17. Wilson, August: In Black and White: This conversation introduces one of America’s most celebrated playwrights, whose on-going project to write a play on African American life set in each decade of this century is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the history of American theater. He describes his role as passing down the practical and spiritual wisdom of the African American community, through plays such as Fences and The Piano Lesson. (22 minutes)
18. Wonders of the African World: with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.(3 volums): Vol. 1 – Black Kingdoms of the Nile: Gates embarks on an epic journey through Egypt and Sudan in search of ancient Nubia – an ancient African civilization which once rivaled Egypt. Pyramids, ruined temples and royal tombs survive in the deserts of Sudan. And along the Nile lie the ruins of an ancient Nubian capital: the oldest city so far uncovered in the whole of Africa. ( Also in Vol. 1 ) The Swahili Coast: Gates travels along the palm-fringed coast of Kenya and Tanzania and on to the legendary island of Zonzibar. The journey presents an intriguing historical puzzle: Who are the Swahili people? Are they truly African? On the idyllic island of Lamu, Gates finds people proud of their Arab ancestry only, believing their civilization owes little to Africa.
19. A Woman Called Moses: Cicely Tyson starts in the life of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who lead hundreds pf slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War. Tubman aided the Union Army as a reconnaissance agent, mobilizing black troops against the Confederates, freeing slaves and staging raids on plantations. Later she became a leader of the suffragette movement with connections to many of the nation’s great political figures. To those she helped get to The Promised Land, Harriet Tubman became known as “Moses.”(DVD)
20. Women of Color in Higher Education: Too Invisible, Too Silent, For Too Long: The program is a provocative and insightful look at the critical issues relevant to the status of women of color. Topics include equity issues; the academic, social, and professional environment for women; student experiences; women in leadership positions; and the glass ceiling faced by women of color. (120 minutes)
21. Women With Open Eyes: Award-winning Togolese filmmaker Anne-Laure Folly presents portraits of contemporary African women in four West African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, and Benin. The film shows that women are organizing at the grassroots level to play a prominent role in Africa’s current opening to democracy, and demonstrates why Africa’s development is inextricably linked to the social and economic progress of its women. (52 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
22. Wrapped in Pride: The Story of Kente in America: Once reserved for African royalty, kente cloth has become a familiar pattern in American culture. Narrated by Tony Award-winning actress Ann Duquensnay, this program traces how kente cloth crossed the Atlantic from the West African Republic of Ghana at the beginning of the civil rights movement to literally become part of the fabric of American life. Film footage shows Ashanti and Ewe weavers making kente, while several scholars and experts discuss the cultural and political significance of this distinctive cloth.
23. Wright, Richard: Black Boy

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