Come Celebrate with Me
In this program, two poets reflect on the cultural legacies they have inherited. Lucille Clifton and David Mura bring their talent and humor to bear as they look at the past and the lives they live in America today. Filmed at the Biennial Geraldine ...
Transcript: ;PHOTOGRAPH OF A LYNCHING, CIRCA 1930" AND IT STARTS OFF WITH A PHOTOGRAPH OF A LYNCHING. IT THEN MOVES TO MY FATHER IN THE INTERNMENT CAMPS IN 1942 AND AFTER
Remaking American Medicine: The Stealth Epidemic
Focusing on the challenge of treating chronic diseases, this program examines the human and economic costs of effectively managing diabetes, heart disease, and other long-term conditions that consume nearly 70 percent of all health care resources an...
Transcript: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGE. Hockenberry: DR. DAVID LYNCH IS VICE PRESIDENT OF A LOCAL GROUP OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS AND ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE CAMPAIGN. Lynch: WE
The House We Live In: Race - The Power of an Illusion
Virginia law once defined a black person as someone with 1/16th African ancestry; in Florida, it was 1/8th African ancestry. If you can cross a state line and literally, legally change race, what does race really mean? This program argues that the i...
Transcript: divide you found yourself on could be a matter of life or death. Between 1890 and 1920, 2,500 African Americans were lynched in the South. In 1915, Leo
Africa to America to Paris: The Migration of Black Writers
This program traces the path of African-American literature from the shores of the U.S. to the Left Bank of Paris at the end of World War II through the late 1960s. The program provides context by first exploring the New Orleans salon poetry of Desd...
Transcript: happened. I went to the deep South. I just escaped a lynching mob that was going to lynch me. I got out about three hours ahead. Sure. But it all came
A History of Civil Rights in America - Episode 5: 1927 - 1961
A major shift in American consciousness concerning the rights of Blacks leads to the greatest civil rights movement the nation has ever seen.
Transcript: home from World War II, they were true American citizens in name only. Mob lynchings of Black men were a legitimate form of justice in the South. In
21st century turning points in U.S. history: Program 4. 2007-2009
The end of the decade of the 21st century was the best of times and the worst of times. Finally, America understood the consequences of global warming; a sea change occurred when it elected a Black president, but in the end, it faced disaster when t...
Transcript: were Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Wachovia. Many of America's corporate giants - General Motors, Circuit City and Chrysler
Great African American Authors - Program 2: 1902 - 1924
About this title: The onset of the 20th Century gave rise to a new cadre of African American Authors, embodied in the great literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance.
About the Series: One of the amazing American sagas is the history of Af...
Transcript: lynching of a Black man, he neither wants to be identified as a Black man, who would be treated worse than an animal, or as a White man who would abuse
Harlem Voices: The Poetry of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay
Harlem is and always has been more than just a neighborhood. Exploring the community's rich literary heritage, this program focuses on the work of two Harlem-based poets: Langston Hughes, one of the most soulful and jazz-influenced of all of Harlem'...
Transcript: . Yet racial hatred also impinged on the lives of Harlem residents, from the knowledge of lynchings taking place even in the relatively liberal Northern
The Progressive Era
During the presidencies of Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, America was witness to so many political, corporate, and social reforms that the period came to be known as the Progressive Era. This program provides an excellent ...
Transcript: WILSON HAD BETRAYED THEIR TRUST. AS EDITOR OFTHE MEMPHIS FREE SPEECH, IDA WELLS-BARNETT HAD LED A CAMPAIGN TO PROTEST THE LYNCHING OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN
A history of black achievement in America: a new age
This eighth and final program covers Black Achievement, or African American Achievement, and Black Heroes, or African American Heroes, in America's Information Age. This original, eight-part series documents Black Achievement in American history, it...
Transcript: the horror of lynchings, and W.E.B. Du Bois founded the NAACP. At the same time, blacks distinguished themselves in every field, in particular: George