Sapelo

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses...

Produced in 2004, Inspired by the book, Glory In A Snapshot A Photographic Look at Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bedford-Stuyvesant Beautiful is a video that...

Black women had extremely limited options during Jim Crow. Odessa’s story explores how an African American woman born in a time with limited...

A small urban city with a gargantuan wealth of history, contributions, and changes. From the steel industry, music, politics, education, and sports;...

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

Using newly uncovered historical documents, this documentary short pieces together the most complete and accurate account of the life of Viro Small...

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

Maurice Hines -- actor, director, singer, and choreographer -- navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more...

Two artists from Alexandria, Virginia, revisit the town’s segregated past and tell the story of family, friendship, loss, and love through...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

Musician, banjo-maker, and founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project Hannah Mayree organizes workshops and performances celebrating the banjo's...

The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band during its sunset years: 87-year-old Al Casey, who had worked closely with Fats Waller throughout the 1930s; guitarist...