The New Black: LGBT Rights and African American Communities
This award-winning documentary boldly examines the controversial and challenging issues facing African American communities on gay civil rights, campaigns for/against marriage equality and in particular the role of faith institutions. The film makes...
Taafe fanga = Pouvoir de pagne = Skirt power
A griot in present day Mali tells a story about women in an 18th century Dogon village. Fed up with male arrogance, one captures a powerful Albarga mask and terrorizes the men into assuming traditional women’s roles. The humorous results convince ...
Udju azul di Yonta = The blue eyes of Yonta
Uses the device of a young woman's search for the author of a love letter to explore the political and social environment in the former Portuguese overseas province of Portuguese Guinea, now the independent country of Guinea-Bissau. The film offers...
Made in China
Heqing and Heping Fan are responsible for China’s economic miracle—they and millions like them who reluctantly left their homes in the countryside for steady wages in the Cixi Industrial Zone. This program follows the Fans during their seven-day...
Alice Walker
Alice Walker shares with us her remarkable spiritual journey from a sharecropping childhood in rural Georgia to the peace and creativity of her present retreat in Northern California. She reads from her poetry and discusses contemporary America with...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 30 - The Young People's Project: "Come Let Us Build a New World"
About this title: In 1988 Bob Moses founded the Algebra Project, a legacy of SNCC. The mission of the Legacy project is to spread math literacy and encourage teenagers to organize and make demands on their school system. In turn, an outgrowth of the...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 38 - Closing Program: Bernice Johnson Reagon, "Solidarity of Past, Present and Future"
About this title: "What you hear in Bernice's songs is the essence of struggle," says Judy Richardson introducing Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. And Reagon declares that "I am standing on ground plowed by people before I came into being." She describes...
The Big Sellout
Traveling throughout both the developing and industrialized world, [the film] brings us face-to-face with the architects of the reigning world economic order, as well as with the people bearing the brunt of their policies. Shows how international fi...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 1 - Opening Plenary
About this title: SNCC Advisor, Timothy Jenkins opens the conference explaining that this is not simply a gathering of reminiscence, but a coming together to provide "missing chapters in history" to a new generation of freedom fighters. Following Je...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 14 - The Impact and Influence of SNCC on American Society 1960 to 1968
About this title: This panel, says Vincent Harding, is a "beautiful combination of scholars with the warm, warm blood of social activism running through their lives." The panelists present insights on SNCC drawn from their years of careful study of ...