Video: Unheard
Amidst the depths of despair, a grieving mother finds her voice to challenge the forces of injustice and inspire hope.
Video: What Gordon Parks Saw
‘I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.’ – Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
Video: Liberty
Issues of politics, gentrification, community and epistemology subtly collide in Humes’s evocative and assured short film, Liberty, which has won awards at Berlin, SXSW and the Miami Film Festival.
Video: “Black Boy” by Richard Wright
The American Place Theatre – Literature to Life Stage Presentation of Black Boy by Richard Wright.
Leah Penniman: By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves
Enslavement and sharecropping cannot erase thousands of years of Black people’s sacred relationship with the land.
Bob Lord: Black America’s Vanishing Wealth Is Bad For All Americans
The racial wealth divide gives billionaires more power over all of us. The answer? Reparations.
Video: How do you raise a black child? A poem by Cortney Lamar Charleston
A poem by Cortney Lamar Charleston — presented as a film directed by Seyi Peter Thomas of Station Film. HOW DO YOU RAISE A BLACK CHILD? From the dead. With pallbearers … Continue reading
Video: Alone
What would it mean to marry someone behind bars? Directed by Garrett Bradley Running time: 12:19 Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to watch the video. … Continue reading
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