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Black Atlantic: On the Orixas Route
directed by Barbieri Renato (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001), 1 hour 8 mins
The waters of the Atlantic brought the slaves from Africa to Brazil, their bodies in chains but their souls inexorably tied to mother Africa. This Brazilian- made film takes us to both shores, to show how spiritual life, dance and song came with the captive people and took root in the new soil. Among the many trad...
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directed by Barbieri Renato (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001), 1 hour 8 mins
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The waters of the Atlantic brought the slaves from Africa to Brazil, their bodies in chains but their souls inexorably tied to mother Africa. This Brazilian- made film takes us to both shores, to show how spiritual life, dance and song came with the captive people and took root in the new soil. Among the many traditions were the language and gods of Yoruba and Jejes from the Republic of Benin. When a group of freed slaves returned to Africa to re...
The waters of the Atlantic brought the slaves from Africa to Brazil, their bodies in chains but their souls inexorably tied to mother Africa. This Brazilian- made film takes us to both shores, to show how spiritual life, dance and song came with the captive people and took root in the new soil. Among the many traditions were the language and gods of Yoruba and Jejes from the Republic of Benin. When a group of freed slaves returned to Africa to rediscover their roots they were looked upon as outsiders. They became tradespeople - tailors, accountants and builders- and they actually brought Portuguese culture to Africa. Today, when Brazilians revisit Africa, they teach the Africans the culture that these descendants of slaves keep alive in Brazil. The documentary is a testimony to some of the ironies of the diaspora. High School Adult
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Barbieri Renato
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
History curriculums, Race and culture, African diaspora, African languages, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2001. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Artist and Influence, Clinton Turner Davis, interviewed by Michael Dinwiddie
interview by Michael Dinwiddie, fl. 2001-2002, in Artist and Influence (2006), 1 hour 19 mins
Clinton Turner Davis, interviewed by Michael Dinwiddie
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interview by Michael Dinwiddie, fl. 2001-2002, in Artist and Influence (2006), 1 hour 19 mins
Description
Clinton Turner Davis, interviewed by Michael Dinwiddie
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Author / Creator
Michael Dinwiddie, fl. 2001-2002
Date Published / Released
2006-03-26
Series
Artist and Influence
Person Discussed
Clinton Turner Davis, 1949-
Topic / Theme
Theater producers, Theater directors, Theater, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 by the Hatch-Billops Collection
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David Hilliard Appearance At Snapshot To Talk About Black Panther Art Exhibit
28 mins
This speech/address, featuring David Hilliard, is about the Black Panther Art Exhibit.
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28 mins
Description
This speech/address, featuring David Hilliard, is about the Black Panther Art Exhibit.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Speech/Address
Speaker / Narrator
David Hilliard, 1942-
Person Discussed
David Hilliard, 1942-
Topic / Theme
Associations and organizations, Social movements, Art exhibitions, Black Power Movement, 1966-1975, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright 2015 by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
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Say Brother, Fashion Fun
directed by Conrad White, fl. 1974; produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979, WGBH Boston Video, in Say Brother (Boston, MA: WGBH Boston Video), 29 mins
Host Barbara Barrow and Say Brother fashion consultant Rebecca Hill speak with two Boston-based clothing designers: Bettye Downs and Nik D'ambra. Subjects include how they started designing clothes, their choice of models, what people look for in custom clothing and why they are willing to spend so much, costs rel...
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directed by Conrad White, fl. 1974; produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979, WGBH Boston Video, in Say Brother (Boston, MA: WGBH Boston Video), 29 mins
Description
Host Barbara Barrow and Say Brother fashion consultant Rebecca Hill speak with two Boston-based clothing designers: Bettye Downs and Nik D'ambra. Subjects include how they started designing clothes, their choice of models, what people look for in custom clothing and why they are willing to spend so much, costs related to custom clothing, choice of fabrics, and design sensibility. Fashions by both designers are modeled during the program.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979, WGBH Boston Video
Author / Creator
Conrad White, fl. 1974
Date Published / Released
1977-05-13
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Series
Say Brother
Topic / Theme
Fashion, Apparel, Fashion designers, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1977 by WGBH Boston Video
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Furious Flower, 1, Elders
directed by John L. Hodges, Jr.; produced by Judith McCray, in Furious Flower, 1 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1998), 1 hour 52 mins
VIDEO VOLUME I: ELDERS (114 Minutes)
Samuel W. Allen with Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Mari Evans with Val Grey Ward
Naomi Long Madgett with Eleanor W. Traylor
Alvin Aubert with Leonard Moore
Pinkie Gordon Lane with Sandra Govan
This video volume introduces readers to the poets who laid the groundwork for today's Black poe...
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directed by John L. Hodges, Jr.; produced by Judith McCray, in Furious Flower, 1 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1998), 1 hour 52 mins
Description
VIDEO VOLUME I: ELDERS (114 Minutes)
Samuel W. Allen with Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Mari Evans with Val Grey Ward
Naomi Long Madgett with Eleanor W. Traylor
Alvin Aubert with Leonard Moore
Pinkie Gordon Lane with Sandra Govan
This video volume introduces readers to the poets who laid the groundwork for today's Black poetry renaissance and mentored many of the younger voices represented in this series. These writers, many of whom began writing during th...
VIDEO VOLUME I: ELDERS (114 Minutes)
Samuel W. Allen with Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Mari Evans with Val Grey Ward
Naomi Long Madgett with Eleanor W. Traylor
Alvin Aubert with Leonard Moore
Pinkie Gordon Lane with Sandra Govan
This video volume introduces readers to the poets who laid the groundwork for today's Black poetry renaissance and mentored many of the younger voices represented in this series. These writers, many of whom began writing during the '40's provided the wisdom and strong literary voice which brought Black verse to new heights of competence and maturity.
"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
Sandra Govan, Pinkie Gordon Lane, 1923-, Lenard Duane Moore, 1958-, Alvin Aubert, 1930-, Eleanor W. Traylor, Naomi Long Madgett, 1923-, Val Gray Ward, Mari Evans, 1923-, Jerry Ward, Jr., Samuel W. Allen
Person Discussed
Sandra Govan, Pinkie Gordon Lane, 1923-, Lenard Duane Moore, 1958-, Alvin Aubert, 1930-, Eleanor W. Traylor, Naomi Long Madgett, 1923-, Val Gray Ward, Mari Evans, 1923-, Jerry Ward, Jr., Samuel W. Allen
Topic / Theme
African-Americans, Black Studies, Jews
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of California Newsreel. All rights reserved.
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Furious Flower, 3, Seers
directed by John L. Hodges, Jr.; produced by Judith McCray, in Furious Flower, 3 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1998), 1 hour 54 mins
VIDEO VOLUME III: SEERS (114 Minutes)
Rita Dove
Toi Derricotte with Opal Moore
Dolores Kendrick with Judith Thomas
Sherley Anne Williams with Deborah McDowell
Gerald Barrax with Joyce Pettis
E. Ethelbert Miller with Eugenia Collier
Michael S. Harper with Aldon L. Nielsen
Following the Black Arts Movement, the poe...
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directed by John L. Hodges, Jr.; produced by Judith McCray, in Furious Flower, 3 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1998), 1 hour 54 mins
Description
VIDEO VOLUME III: SEERS (114 Minutes)
Rita Dove
Toi Derricotte with Opal Moore
Dolores Kendrick with Judith Thomas
Sherley Anne Williams with Deborah McDowell
Gerald Barrax with Joyce Pettis
E. Ethelbert Miller with Eugenia Collier
Michael S. Harper with Aldon L. Nielsen
Following the Black Arts Movement, the poets who began publishing in the 1970's felt free to broaden the scope of African American poetry. While retaining the same political com...
VIDEO VOLUME III: SEERS (114 Minutes)
Rita Dove
Toi Derricotte with Opal Moore
Dolores Kendrick with Judith Thomas
Sherley Anne Williams with Deborah McDowell
Gerald Barrax with Joyce Pettis
E. Ethelbert Miller with Eugenia Collier
Michael S. Harper with Aldon L. Nielsen
Following the Black Arts Movement, the poets who began publishing in the 1970's felt free to broaden the scope of African American poetry. While retaining the same political commitment, they extended their vision into new regions, exploring personal, sometimes taboo subjects and imbuing traditional forms with a contemporary intensity.
"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
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, 1950-, Michael S. Harper, 1938-, Eugenia Collier, 1928-, E. Ethelbert Miller, 1950-, Joyce Pettis, Gerald William Barrax, 1933-, Deborah McDowell, Sherley Anne Williams, 1941-1999, Judith Thomas, Dolores Kendrick, Opal Moore, Toi Derricotte, 1941-, Rita Dove, 1952-
Person Discussed
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, 1950-, Michael S. Harper, 1938-, Eugenia Collier, 1928-, E. Ethelbert Miller, 1950-, Joyce Pettis, Gerald William Barrax, 1933-, Deborah McDowell, Sherley Anne Williams, 1941-1999, Judith Thomas, Dolores Kendrick, Opal Moore, Toi Derricotte, 1941-, Rita Dove, 1952-
Topic / Theme
African-Americans, Black Studies, Turkish
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of California Newsreel. All rights reserved.
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Hughes' Dream Harlem
directed by Jamal Joseph, fl. 1993-2015; produced by Jamal Joseph, fl. 1993-2015 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2002), 1 hour
Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance and is often referred to as Harlem's poet laureate. This film shows how Hughes successfully fused jazz, blues and common speech to celebrate the beauty of Black life. Hughes' Dream Harlem presents a vision of the esteemed poet in prese...
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directed by Jamal Joseph, fl. 1993-2015; produced by Jamal Joseph, fl. 1993-2015 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2002), 1 hour
Description
Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance and is often referred to as Harlem's poet laureate. This film shows how Hughes successfully fused jazz, blues and common speech to celebrate the beauty of Black life. Hughes' Dream Harlem presents a vision of the esteemed poet in present-day Harlem and makes an important case for Hughes' impact on hip-hop and the spoken-word community.
This multi-layered documentary...
Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance and is often referred to as Harlem's poet laureate. This film shows how Hughes successfully fused jazz, blues and common speech to celebrate the beauty of Black life. Hughes' Dream Harlem presents a vision of the esteemed poet in present-day Harlem and makes an important case for Hughes' impact on hip-hop and the spoken-word community.
This multi-layered documentary includes roundtable discussions of his contributions and a tour of Hughes' Harlem hang-outs. The distinguished actor/activist Ossie Davis offers the narration in his soulful baritone, while his wife and collaborator, the renowned Ruby Dee, reflects on Hughes' life with such notable personalities as poet Sonia Sanchez and music industry icon Damon Dash. The artists testify to his continuing impact on their work and his steadfast racial pride and artistic independence. Hughes' Dream Harlem will inspire students to discover Hughes' work while encouraging them to pursue their own writing.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Biography
Contributor
Jamal Joseph, fl. 1993-2015, Ossie B. Davis, 1917-2005
Author / Creator
Jamal Joseph, fl. 1993-2015
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
California Newsreel
Speaker / Narrator
Ossie B. Davis, 1917-2005
Person Discussed
Langston Hughes, 1902-1967
Topic / Theme
Literary occupations, Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939, Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of California Newsreel. All rights reserved.
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Immigrant from America
directed by Bill Buckley (Westport, CT: Rediscovery Productions, 2011), 21 mins
Unlike every other immigrant to America, the Black African came to a land of bondage, not freedom. This provocative film explores how the African American has used education, economic strength, and political power to overcome a legacy of racist obstacles.
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directed by Bill Buckley (Westport, CT: Rediscovery Productions, 2011), 21 mins
Description
Unlike every other immigrant to America, the Black African came to a land of bondage, not freedom. This provocative film explores how the African American has used education, economic strength, and political power to overcome a legacy of racist obstacles.
Field of Study
The American Civil War
Content Type
Dramatized scene
Author / Creator
Bill Buckley
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Rediscovery Productions
Topic / Theme
African-Americans, Civil rights, Constitutional amendments, Education, Inner city ghettos, Immigration and emigration, Racism, Segregation, Slavery, Slums, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), The Sixties (1960–1974), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Chinese, Irish, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750..
African-Americans, Civil rights, Constitutional amendments, Education, Inner city ghettos, Immigration and emigration, Racism, Segregation, Slavery, Slums, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), The Sixties (1960–1974), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Chinese, Irish, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Langston Hughes: Performance "The Weary Blues" with Jazz Accompaniment
produced by Educational Video Group (Greenwood, IN: Educational Video Group, 1950), 3 mins
This video is a performance of Langston Hughes reading his, 'The Weary Blues' with jazz accompaniment.
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produced by Educational Video Group (Greenwood, IN: Educational Video Group, 1950), 3 mins
Description
This video is a performance of Langston Hughes reading his, 'The Weary Blues' with jazz accompaniment.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Educational Video Group
Date Published / Released
1950
Publisher
Educational Video Group
Speaker / Narrator
Langston Hughes, 1902-1967
Person Discussed
Langston Hughes, 1902-1967
Topic / Theme
Poetry, African-Americans, Musical performances, Post-war Era (1945–1960), African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1958 by Educational Media Group
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Artist and Influence, Louis Johnson, Dancer & Choreographer, interviewed by Glory Van Scott and Mary Cannon Screen
produced by Hatch-Billops Collection; interview by Glory Van Scott, 1947- and Mary Cannon Screen, fl. 2007, in Artist and Influence (New York, NY: Hatch-Billops Collection, 2007), 1 hour 13 mins
Louis Johnson, Dancer & Choreographer, interviewed by Glory Van Scott and Mary Cannon Screen.
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produced by Hatch-Billops Collection; interview by Glory Van Scott, 1947- and Mary Cannon Screen, fl. 2007, in Artist and Influence (New York, NY: Hatch-Billops Collection, 2007), 1 hour 13 mins
Description
Louis Johnson, Dancer & Choreographer, interviewed by Glory Van Scott and Mary Cannon Screen.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Hatch-Billops Collection
Author / Creator
Glory Van Scott, 1947-, Mary Cannon Screen, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2007-11-04
Publisher
Hatch-Billops Collection
Series
Artist and Influence
Person Discussed
Louis Johnson, 1930-
Topic / Theme
Choreographers, Dancers, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 by the Hatch-Billops Collection
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