SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 37 - Plenary: Bob Moses, "We the People"
About this title: David Dennis introduces CORE’s former Mississippi Project Director, David Dennis, by recalling a 2005 meeting in New Orleans. This was before Katrina, says Dennis, and there were 120 schools in the city. "Now we're lucky if there...
Liberia: An Uncivil War
Reporter Jonathan Stack is besieged in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, where president Charles Taylor has just been indicted on 17 counts of crimes against humanity by the United Nations. James Barbazon is traveling with the LURD rebel army, which...
All About Darfur
Director Taghreed Elsanhouri says that she made this film "out of a passionate belief that I was uniquely qualified to tell a story of race because as a northerner in Sudan I know what it is to belong to a dominant group and as a black woman in Brit...
Tulia, Texas
Drug use was a fact of life in the African-American community of Tulia, Texas—but when it became common in white neighborhoods, too, civic leaders grew alarmed. In 1999 they brought in an undercover agent, later found to be a racist with a crimina...
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Katrina Browne was shocked to discover that her distinguished Rhode Island forebears had been part of the largest slave-trading dynasty in American history. Once she started digging, Browne found the evidence everywhere—in ledgers, ships’ logs, ...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Program Two: Fighting Back (1896 - 1917)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents a brutal and oppressive era rooted in the growing refusal ...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Program Three: Don't Shout Too Soon (1917 - 1940)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents a brutal and oppressive era rooted in the growing refusal ...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Program Four: Terror and Triumph (1940 - 1954)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents a brutal and oppressive era rooted in the growing refusal ...
Monday's girls
A grandmother named Monday Moses in the island town of Ogoloma, Nigeria is responsible for taking the young girls of the village through the rites of passage from girlhood into womanhood so that they will be ready for marriage.
Black Panther
Interviews with founding members of the Black Panther Party and documentary footage of the organization's meetings and marches. Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Black Panthers in an interview from jail; Minister of Inf...