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Say Brother, The African Artist
directed by Conrad White, fl. 1974; produced by Marita Rivero, fl. 1972, WGBH Boston Video; interview by Marita Rivero, fl. 1972, in Say Brother (Boston, MA: WGBH Boston Video), 29 mins
Program focuses on the painting of Gambian artist Momodou Ceesay, painting instructor at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and at Roxbury Community College. Host Marita Rivero speaks with Ceesay about what we can expect from art and its function is, his ideas and techniques (which are often inspired by children's...
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directed by Conrad White, fl. 1974; produced by Marita Rivero, fl. 1972, WGBH Boston Video; interview by Marita Rivero, fl. 1972, in Say Brother (Boston, MA: WGBH Boston Video), 29 mins
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Program focuses on the painting of Gambian artist Momodou Ceesay, painting instructor at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and at Roxbury Community College. Host Marita Rivero speaks with Ceesay about what we can expect from art and its function is, his ideas and techniques (which are often inspired by children's stories from Gambia), his efforts to preserve Africa's traditional landscapes via illustration, and the fact that much of his work is...
Program focuses on the painting of Gambian artist Momodou Ceesay, painting instructor at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and at Roxbury Community College. Host Marita Rivero speaks with Ceesay about what we can expect from art and its function is, his ideas and techniques (which are often inspired by children's stories from Gambia), his efforts to preserve Africa's traditional landscapes via illustration, and the fact that much of his work is derived from memory. Ceesay works in watercolor and acrylic paint. Program includes numerous slides of the artist's work, accompanied by narrated explanations, and the "Community Calendar."
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Marita Rivero, fl. 1972, WGBH Boston Video
Author / Creator
Conrad White, fl. 1974, Marita Rivero, fl. 1972
Date Published / Released
1976-07-09
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Series
Say Brother
Person Discussed
Momodou Ceesay, 1945-
Topic / Theme
Geophysical features, Visual artists, Paintings
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1976 by WGBH Boston Video
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Are We Different?
produced by John Arthos (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1993), 32 mins
A tacit code of silence on matters of race perpetuates divisions. Are We Different? gives voice to African-American students around the country as they articulate issues of race, racism and race relations. It uncovers subjects that are generally taboo or difficult to express. The discussion ranges from whether sty...
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produced by John Arthos (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1993), 32 mins
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A tacit code of silence on matters of race perpetuates divisions. Are We Different? gives voice to African-American students around the country as they articulate issues of race, racism and race relations. It uncovers subjects that are generally taboo or difficult to express. The discussion ranges from whether stylistic differences between whites and blacks are superficial or profound, to the causes and nature of anger and frustration in the blac...
A tacit code of silence on matters of race perpetuates divisions. Are We Different? gives voice to African-American students around the country as they articulate issues of race, racism and race relations. It uncovers subjects that are generally taboo or difficult to express. The discussion ranges from whether stylistic differences between whites and blacks are superficial or profound, to the causes and nature of anger and frustration in the black community. The students question why "blackness" is suddenly so fashionable and why some white kids like to hang out in black neighborhoods. They talk about black culture with its special speech patterns and gestures that sets it apart. They talk about black spirituality and energy. As Cornel West, director of Princeton's Afro-American Studies program says, "The fundamental failure of this country is not to engage in a critical discussion about race." That is why this film is so important. High School College Adult
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John Arthos
Date Published / Released
1993
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Race and culture, Race relations, Students, African-Americans, Cultural identity, Racism, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1993. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Tony Brown's Journal, Billy Taylor Segments: Charlie Parker's 'Confirmation'
composed by Charlie Parker, 1920-1955; conducted by Billy Taylor, 1921-2010; produced by Tony Brown Productions, in Tony Brown's Journal (New York, NY: Tony Brown Productions, 1980), 5 mins
This video is a performance segment by Billy Taylor and his orchestra from the TV series Tony Brown's Journal. The segment has a short introduction by Taylor to the composition by Charlie Parker that the orchestra plays.
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composed by Charlie Parker, 1920-1955; conducted by Billy Taylor, 1921-2010; produced by Tony Brown Productions, in Tony Brown's Journal (New York, NY: Tony Brown Productions, 1980), 5 mins
Description
This video is a performance segment by Billy Taylor and his orchestra from the TV series Tony Brown's Journal. The segment has a short introduction by Taylor to the composition by Charlie Parker that the orchestra plays. College Adult
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Billy Taylor, 1921-2010, Tony Brown Productions
Author / Creator
Charlie Parker, 1920-1955
Date Published / Released
1980
Publisher
Tony Brown Productions
Series
Tony Brown's Journal
Speaker / Narrator
Billy Taylor, 1921-2010
Person Discussed
Billy Taylor, 1921-2010, Charlie Parker, 1920-1955
Topic / Theme
Musical performances, Musical ensembles, Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright 1980 Tony Brown Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Birthright: A Story of the Negro - and the South
directed by Oscar Micheaux, 1884-1951; produced by Alice B. Russell, 1892-1984 and Oscar Micheaux, 1884-1951, Micheaux Film (New York, NY: Kino Lorber, 2016), 1 hour 14 mins
This collection of the works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only one of its kind.
This film, directed by Oscar Micheaux, is about an African American Harvard graduate who returns home to the South and confronts racism.
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directed by Oscar Micheaux, 1884-1951; produced by Alice B. Russell, 1892-1984 and Oscar Micheaux, 1884-1951, Micheaux Film (New York, NY: Kino Lorber, 2016), 1 hour 14 mins
Description
This collection of the works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only one of its kind.
This film, directed by Oscar Micheaux, is about an African American Harvard graduate who returns home to the South and confronts racism.
Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Alice B. Russell, 1892-1984, Oscar Micheaux, 1884-1951, Micheaux Film
Author / Creator
Oscar Micheaux, 1884-1951
Date Published / Released
1939, 2016
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Topic / Theme
Education, Black community, Racism, Americans, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © United States Kino Lorber
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Black American Experience, Famous Activists: Paul Robeson & Richard Wright
directed by Rex Barnett, fl. 1990; produced by Rex Barnett, fl. 1990, in Black American Experience (Los Angeles, CA - Venice: TMW Media Group, 1995), 1 hour 26 mins
Paul Robeson: One of the most talented performers of his time and a dedicated humanitarian who ultimately sacrificed fame and fortune for what he believed in. Richard Wright: A major influence on world literature and politics, who brought the Black Experience to the forefront of social discourse.
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directed by Rex Barnett, fl. 1990; produced by Rex Barnett, fl. 1990, in Black American Experience (Los Angeles, CA - Venice: TMW Media Group, 1995), 1 hour 26 mins
Description
Paul Robeson: One of the most talented performers of his time and a dedicated humanitarian who ultimately sacrificed fame and fortune for what he believed in. Richard Wright: A major influence on world literature and politics, who brought the Black Experience to the forefront of social discourse. Adult
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Rex Barnett, fl. 1990
Author / Creator
Rex Barnett, fl. 1990
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
TMW Media Group
Series
Black American Experience
Person Discussed
Lester Rodney, fl. 1993, Richard Wright, 1908-1960, Paul Robeson, 1898-1976
Topic / Theme
Humanitarian values, Black community
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009 TMW Media Group. All rights reserved.
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Black Theater: The Making of a Movement
directed by Woodie King, Jr., 1937-; produced by Woodie King, Jr., 1937- (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1978), 1 hour 50 mins
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement documents the birth of a new theatre out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. It is a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement that transformed the American stage.
Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, James Earl J...
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directed by Woodie King, Jr., 1937-; produced by Woodie King, Jr., 1937- (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1978), 1 hour 50 mins
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Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement documents the birth of a new theatre out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. It is a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement that transformed the American stage.
Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange describe their aspirations for a theatre serving the Black community. Excerpts of A Raisin in the Sun, Black Gi...
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement documents the birth of a new theatre out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. It is a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement that transformed the American stage.
Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange describe their aspirations for a theatre serving the Black community. Excerpts of A Raisin in the Sun, Black Girl, Dutchman and For Colored Girls... reveal how these actors and playwrights laid the basis for the Black theater of the present.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Woodie King, Jr., 1937-
Author / Creator
Woodie King, Jr., 1937-
Date Published / Released
1978
Publisher
California Newsreel
Person Discussed
Ntozake Shange, 1948-2018, James Earl Jones, 1931-, Ossie B. Davis, 1917-2005, Amiri Baraka, 1934-2014
Topic / Theme
Plays, Theater, Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of California Newsreel. All rights reserved.
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Tony Brown's Journal, Can You Dig It? Black History Quiz (30 min) – Show 2
produced by Tony Brown Productions, in Tony Brown's Journal (New York, NY: Tony Brown Productions, 1975), 6 mins
Drawing its questions from the wealth of information on the history and cultural heritage of Black Americans. 'Can You Dig It?' was the first (and only ?) African-American quiz show on national television. This episode features contestants Richard Press and Jacqueline Chapman.
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produced by Tony Brown Productions, in Tony Brown's Journal (New York, NY: Tony Brown Productions, 1975), 6 mins
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Drawing its questions from the wealth of information on the history and cultural heritage of Black Americans. 'Can You Dig It?' was the first (and only ?) African-American quiz show on national television. This episode features contestants Richard Press and Jacqueline Chapman. College Adult
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Tony Brown Productions
Date Published / Released
1975
Publisher
Tony Brown Productions
Series
Tony Brown's Journal
Speaker / Narrator
Nipsey Russell, 1918-2005
Person Discussed
Nipsey Russell, 1918-2005
Topic / Theme
Games, Television programs, Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright 1975 Tony Brown Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The End of Silence Legacy Tour
2 hours 2 mins
This music performance, featuring the rap group The Fugitive, is a legacy tour about the Black Panther Party's history with interspersed footage featuring David Hilliard and Bobby Seale.
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2 hours 2 mins
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This music performance, featuring the rap group The Fugitive, is a legacy tour about the Black Panther Party's history with interspersed footage featuring David Hilliard and Bobby Seale.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Performance
Person Discussed
David Hilliard, 1942-, Bobby Seale, 1936-
Topic / Theme
Concerts, Associations and organizations, Social movements, History, Black Power Movement, 1966-1975, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright 2015 by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
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Tony Brown's Journal, From the Library of Black History, Black Hollywood
directed by Michael Colgan, 1941-1983; produced by Sheryl J. Parker, fl. 1983, James Cannady, fl. 1983-2004 and Tony Brown, 1933-, in Tony Brown's Journal (New York, NY: Tony Brown Productions, 1989), 29 mins
Before Denzel and Halle won the Oscar. Before Jamie Foxx riveted audiences with his spot-on portrayal of Ray Charles, there was a time when Black actors and actresses were limited in what they could portray in motion pictures. In many roles they were reduced to subservient roles such as maids, cooks and nannies. B...
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directed by Michael Colgan, 1941-1983; produced by Sheryl J. Parker, fl. 1983, James Cannady, fl. 1983-2004 and Tony Brown, 1933-, in Tony Brown's Journal (New York, NY: Tony Brown Productions, 1989), 29 mins
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Before Denzel and Halle won the Oscar. Before Jamie Foxx riveted audiences with his spot-on portrayal of Ray Charles, there was a time when Black actors and actresses were limited in what they could portray in motion pictures. In many roles they were reduced to subservient roles such as maids, cooks and nannies. But even as Jim Crow pervaded in the mainstream film industry, there were more than 400 Black-produced motion pictures made between 1915...
Before Denzel and Halle won the Oscar. Before Jamie Foxx riveted audiences with his spot-on portrayal of Ray Charles, there was a time when Black actors and actresses were limited in what they could portray in motion pictures. In many roles they were reduced to subservient roles such as maids, cooks and nannies. But even as Jim Crow pervaded in the mainstream film industry, there were more than 400 Black-produced motion pictures made between 1915 and 1950. And one man, Oscar Micheaux, was responsible for more than 10 percent of them. Enjoy the powerful story of how Micheaux dared to defy the stereotypes at a time when many Blacks lacked basic civil rights.
This 30-minute version explores how and why film stereotypes were used. Adult
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary, Interview
Contributor
Sheryl J. Parker, fl. 1983, James Cannady, fl. 1983-2004, Tony Brown, 1933-
Author / Creator
Michael Colgan, 1941-1983
Date Published / Released
1989
Publisher
Tony Brown Productions
Series
Tony Brown's Journal
Person Discussed
Henry T. Sampson, Jr., 1934-, Lorenzo Tucker, 1907-1986, Thomas Cripps, fl. 1978-2002
Topic / Theme
African-Americans, Fijian people, Filmmaking industry, Black Studies, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright 1990 Tony Brown Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Furious Flower, 2, Warriors
directed by John L. Hodges, Jr.; produced by Judith McCray, in Furious Flower, 2 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1998), 1 hour 52 mins
VIDEO VOLUME II: WARRIORS (114 Minutes)
Amiri Baraka with Askia M. Touré
Haki R. Madhubuti with Sonia Sanchez
Kalamu ya Salaam with Everett Hoagland
Sonia Sanchez with Lorenzo Thomas
Eugene Redmond with Jabari Asim
Nikki Giovanni with Virginia Fowler
The Black Arts Movement swept through the 1960's as the lieter...
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directed by John L. Hodges, Jr.; produced by Judith McCray, in Furious Flower, 2 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1998), 1 hour 52 mins
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VIDEO VOLUME II: WARRIORS (114 Minutes)
Amiri Baraka with Askia M. Touré
Haki R. Madhubuti with Sonia Sanchez
Kalamu ya Salaam with Everett Hoagland
Sonia Sanchez with Lorenzo Thomas
Eugene Redmond with Jabari Asim
Nikki Giovanni with Virginia Fowler
The Black Arts Movement swept through the 1960's as the lieterary arm of the Black liberation movements of those years. It defined a strong Black cultural identity and waged a war for literary self...
VIDEO VOLUME II: WARRIORS (114 Minutes)
Amiri Baraka with Askia M. Touré
Haki R. Madhubuti with Sonia Sanchez
Kalamu ya Salaam with Everett Hoagland
Sonia Sanchez with Lorenzo Thomas
Eugene Redmond with Jabari Asim
Nikki Giovanni with Virginia Fowler
The Black Arts Movement swept through the 1960's as the lieterary arm of the Black liberation movements of those years. It defined a strong Black cultural identity and waged a war for literary self-determination. In this video volume these veterans read from work which stirred a generation and discuss the achievements and unfulfilled hopes of their movement.
"The time cracks into furious flower
Lifts its face all unashamed
And sways in wicked grace."
- Gwendolyn Brooks, The Second Sermon on the Warpland
Furious Flower I is nothing less than a video anthology of African American verse during the last half of the 20th century. This invaluable reference work offers intimate portraits of twenty-five leading poets, each reading and discussing their own work. It offers concise introductions to such important contemporary African American writers as Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni and Michael Harper. More than that, Furious Flower I offers viewers hours of pleasure listening to some of the most impassioned and powerful poetry ever written in America.
This series preserves for students, faculty and the general public a landmark conference Furious Flower: A Revolution in African American Poetry 1960-95 celebrating the continuity of Black verse from the Harlem Renaissance through the Black Arts Movement of the '60s to the hip-hop influenced poetry of today. The event was dedicated to Gwendolyn Brooks, an inspiration to Black poets for over fifty years, taking its title from a line in one of her poems.
Conference organizer and series producer, Dr. Joanne Gabbin, explains why African American poetry is both furious and flowering: "It's a poetry of grace and rage, of identity and struggle, combining beauty and political activism."
The Furious Flower I video anthology furthers the same scholarly agenda as the conference: to place Black poetry squarely in the canon of 20th century American verse. "We're fifty years behind," poet and critic E. Ethelbert Miller warned. "We need to have our work assessed not just as 'protest poetry' but as we would any great literature."
This six hour series consists of fifteen to twenty minute self-portraits of twenty-six individual poets arranged into four "video volumes" under the rubrics Elders, Warriors, Seers and Initiates. They mix stirring public readings by each writer with informal conversations with fellow poets and critics. They discuss their work in terms of historical continuity and disjuncture, oral and written traditions, Southern versus Northern experiences, but above all, within the rich matrix of African American vernacular culture.
Furious Flower I offers students and the general public an essential compilation of African American poetry at the end of the 20th century offering a unique chance to sample its rich diversity and to meet the men and women behind it. It provides nothing more or less than these poets in their own words revealing the eloquence and commitment of three generations of African Americans verse. High School Adult College
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Performance, Documentary, Interview
Contributor
Judith McCray
Author / Creator
John L. Hodges, Jr.
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
California Newsreel
Series
Furious Flower
Speaker / Narrator
Virginia Fowler, Nikki Giovanni, 1943-, Jabari Asim, 1962-, Eugene B. Redmond, 1937-, Lorenzo Thomas, 1941-2004, Everett Hoagland, Kalamu ya Salaam, 1947-, Sonia Sanchez, 1934-, Haki R. Madhubuti, 1942-, Askia Muhammad Touré, 1938-, Amiri Baraka, 1934-2014
Person Discussed
Virginia Fowler, Nikki Giovanni, 1943-, Jabari Asim, 1962-, Eugene B. Redmond, 1937-, Lorenzo Thomas, 1941-2004, Everett Hoagland, Kalamu ya Salaam, 1947-, Sonia Sanchez, 1934-, Haki R. Madhubuti, 1942-, Askia Muhammad Touré, 1938-, Amiri Baraka, 1934-2014
Topic / Theme
African-Americans, Black Studies, Jews
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of California Newsreel. All rights reserved.
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