PurdueUniversity
BlackCultural Center Library
Title: Achebe at 70: birthday celebration
Year: 2000
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: National Cable Satellite Corp.; C-Span Archives
Type: 1 videocassette (88 min.)
Notes: Professor Achebe, a Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist,was honored on his 70th birthday. Onstage before an audience, Toni Morrison and President Botstein reminisced with ProfessorAchebe about his writing and his life experiences, and about theirs. Questions were also taken from theaudience. Achebe is said to havepioneered the modern African novel with his 1958 Things Fall Apart. Aired November 4, 2000
Title: African art, women, history the Luba people of centralAfrica
Author: Freeman, Linda
Year: 1998
City: Chappaqua, NY
Publisher: L & S Video
Type: 1 videocassette (28 min.)
Abstract: In Africa, as elsewhere, memory sustains the identity of apeople. This documentary is about Luba art and the relationship between women,art and history.
Notes: narrated by Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts, created & producedby Linda Freeman.
Luba people of central Africa.
African-American artists series.
Title from cassette label.
URL: http://www.landsvideo.com/African_Luba.htm
Title: African-American autobiographies
Author: Grillo, Evelio; Gibson, Thelma; McNair, Joseph
Year: 2000
City: Miami, FL
Publisher: C-SPAN; National Cable Satellite Corporation, 2000
Type: 2 videocassettes (68 min)
Abstract: Mr. Grillo talked about his autobiography Black Cuban, BlackAmerican: A Memior, published by Arte Publico Press as part of the Recoveringthe U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage series. Mr. Grillo, who served in World WarII, spent his childhood in Cuba. Ms. Gibson talked about her self-publishedautobiography Forbearance. Ms. Gibson, a nursing supervisor, is a native ofCoconut Grove. After their remarks the authors answered questions fromaudience.
Title: African-American autobiographies
Author: Grillo, Evelio; Gibson, Thelma; McNair, Joseph
Year: 2000
City: Miami, FL
Publisher: C-SPAN; National Cable Satellite Corporation, 2000
Type: 2 videocassettes (68 min)
Abstract: Mr. Grillo talked about his autobiography Black Cuban, BlackAmerican: A Memior, published by Arte Publico Press as part of the Recoveringthe U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage series. Mr. Grillo, who served in World WarII, spent his childhood in Cuba. Ms. Gibson talked about her self-publishedautobiography Forbearance. Ms. Gibson, a nursing supervisor, is a native ofCoconut Grove. After their remarks the authors answered questions fromaudience.
Title: Africans in America America's journey through slavery
Author: Bagwell, Orlando
Year: 1998
City: [Alexandria, VA]
Publisher: PBS Video
Type: 4 videocassettes (270 min.)
Abstract: Considers the contradictions that lay at the heart of thefounding of the American nation. The infant democracy pronounced all men to becreated equal while enslaving one race to benefit another. Portrays thestruggles of the African people in America, from their arrival in the 1600s tothe last days before the Civil War.
Notes: produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell, Susan Bellows ;WGBH Educational Foundation.
America's journey through slavery.
[Enhanced ed.]
1 teacher's guide (32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.) +1 video index (17 p. : 28 cm.)
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
"PBS Video Index"--label.
Specially prepared set enhanced by PBS withtime code visible on the screen.
Part I. The terrible transformation -- partII. Revolution -- part III. Brotherly love -- part IV. Judgement day.
Writer, Steve Fayer ; associate producer,Patricia Garcia Rios ; editor, Charles Scott ; music score, Bernice JohnsonReagon ; director of photography, Michael Chin ; narrator, Angela Bassett.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
Title: Against the odds the artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Morton, Joe; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); PBS HomeVideo.
Year: 1998
City: [Arlington, VA]
Burbank, CA
Publisher: PBS Home Video ;
distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
Abstract: Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was the scene of a passionateoutburst of creativity by African-American visual artists. This documentarytells how black artists triumphed over the prejudice and segregation that kepttheir work out of mainstream galleries and exhibitions, and recalls thevibrancy of Harlem in the roaring twenties. You'll view over 130 paintings,prints, photographs and sculptures, along with rare archival footage of artistsat work.
Notes: Pbs.
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
Not rated.
Joe Morton, narrator.
URL: http://videoindex.pbs.org/program/program.jsp?item_id=6224
Title: Aimé Césaire une voix pour l'histoire
Year: 1994
City: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 3 videocassettes
Notes: Part 1. L'ile veilleuse (The vigilant island) (54 min.) --Part 2. Au rendez-vous de la conquete (Where the edges of conquest meet) (56min.) -- Part 3. La force de regarder demain (The strength to face tomorrow)(50 min.)
L'ile veilleuse (The vigilant island)
Au rendez-vous de la conquete (Where theedges of conquest meet)
Euzhan Palcy, director
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0115
Title: Alex Haley
Author: Haley, Alex
Year: 1992
City: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 1 videocassette (43 min.)
Abstract: In one of the few in-depth conversations with Alex Haleybefore his death in 1992, this film is a moving testament to a man who became asymbol of African Americans' determination to endure and excel.
Notes: a production of RTSI Lugano ; written and directed by MatteoBellinelli.
Conversation with Alex Haley.
Narrator, Robert Lanchester ; English adaptation,Marianne Mantell.
Distributor on screen: Films for theHumanities & Sciences.
Bibliographical references on container.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/alexhale.htm
Title: Alice Walker
Author: Walker, Alice
Year: 1989
City: Santa Fe, N.M.
Publisher: Lannan Foundation
Type: 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Abstract: "Alice Walker, who wrote her first book of poems as shetravelled through Kenya and Uganda, won the Pulitzer Prize and an American BookAward for her novel The color purple. [She] read from Revolutionary petuniasand other poems, Horses make a landscape look more beautiful, and excerpts fromThe color purple and The temple of my familiar in Los Angeles on January 9,1989 ... [and] was interviewed at her home ... by journalist EvelynWhite"--Container.
Notes: Lannan literary series in association with MetropolitanPictures and EZTV ; a video by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr.
Lannan literary series.
Camera/sound, John Dorr, James Williams,Michael Masucci, Curt Wolheim.
Interviewer, Evelyn White.
Title: Amiri Baraka
Author: Baraka, Imamu Amiri
Year: 1991
City: [Los Angeles, Calif.]
Publisher: The Lannan Foundation
Type: 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Abstract: Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist,reads from Five Boptrees and unpublished work. He is interviewed by LewisMacAdams.
Notes: the Lannan Literary Series in association with MetropolitanPictures and EZTV ; [produced and directed] by Lewis Mac Adams and John Dorr.
Lannan literary videos ; 26.
Editors, John Dorr, Lewis MacAdams ;camera/sound, John Dorr, Michael Masucci, Curt Walheim.
Title: And still I rise
Author: Onwurah, Ngozi; Onwurah, Kanyo S.; Carr, Sarah; Llewellyn, Suzette;Non Aligned Production; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television service.;Women Make Movies (Firm)
Year: 1993
City: New York, NY
Publisher: Women Make Movies
Type: 1 videocassette (30 min.) :
Abstract: Prominent black women comment on the history and experiencesof the Afro-American slave woman in white European society. Includes interviewswith Caron Wheeler (singer), Buchi Emecheta (novelist), Stella Dadzie (writer)along with many others.
Notes: a Non Aligned Production for BBC Television ; produced byKanayo S. Onwurah & Sarah Carr ; written & directed by Ngozi Onwurah.
Suzette Llewellyn.
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c99.htm
Title: Andrew Young former executive director, Southern ChristianLeadership Conference and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
Author: Young, Andrew; Harding, Vincent; Harding, Rosemarie Freeney;Veterans of Hope Project.
Year: 2000
City: Denver, CO
Publisher: Veterans of Hope Project
Type: 1 videorecording (34 min.)
Abstract: This videotape notes Reverend Andrew Young's involvementwith SNCC. Under the tutelage of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Young strove to widen the path of social and racialequality. He claimed that the key topromoting diversity was to redeem the "soul of America of its tripleevils" - racism, poverty and war." Acquainting individuals to non-violent practices could achieve this.
Notes: Andrew Young :
Minister of the beloved community.
Veterans of Hope educational video archiveand pamphlet series.
Interviewers: Vincent Harding, RosemarieFreeney Harding.
Title: The angry eye with Jane Elliott
Author: Elliott, Jane; Golenbock, Susan A.; Talmadge, William;Guidance Associates.
Year: 2001
City: [United States]
Publisher: Elliott & Elliott Eye
Type: 1 videocassette
Abstract: Young adults from various backgrounds in a college settingare forced to explore issues of racism in contemporary American society withprovocative results.
Notes: Jane Elliott : the angry eye.
College eye.
"Formerly 'The CollegeEye.'"--Container.
"Based on the exercise A collar in mypocket by Jane Elliott."
"Guidance AssociatesVideo."--Container.
Name on cassette: Guidance Associates, TheCenter for the Humanities, Inc., P.O. Box 1000, Mount Kisco, NY 10549.
Producers: Susan A. Golenbock, WilliamTalmadge.
URL: http://www.trainerstoolchest.com/list_products.php?search_by=Author&search=ELLIOTT%2C+JANE
Title: August Wilson a conversation with August Wilson
Author: Wilson, August
Year: 1992
City: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 1 videocassette (VHS) (22 min.)
Abstract: August Wilson traces the origins of his plays back to atroubled childhood in a Pittsburgh ghetto. He explains the influence of blacktraditions like storytelling and the blues on his work. He describes his roleas passing down the practical and spiritual wisdom of the African Americancommunity.
Notes: SSR-RTSI Swiss Television production ; producer &director, Matteo Bellinelli ; producer, Larry Adelman ; writer, BarbaraChristian.
Conversation with August Wilson.
In black and white ; .5.
Title on container: A conversation with AugustWilson.
Bibliographical references on container.
Camera, Renato Volger, Jim Mayer, StefanFerreira ; editor, Alberto Eisenhardt, Christiane Badgley ; narrator, EdwinaMoore ; music, Andre Knecht, Mary Watkins.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0048-5
Title: Author Interview
Author: Madhubuti, Haki
Year: 2002
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: C-SPAN; National Cable Satellite Corporation
1 videocassette (34 min.)
Abstract: Mr. Mahubuti spoke about the panel discussion he had justparticipated in, as well as books recently published by Third World Press. Heresponded to audience telephone calls, faxes and emails.
Title: The BCC's Voices of Inspiration in concert
Year: 1986
City: West Lafayette, IN
Publisher: Black Cultural Center, Purdue University
1 videocassette (17 min.)
Abstract: The BCC's Voices of Inspiration choir sing a medley of oldNegro spirituals at the President's Council.
Title: Bernice Johnson Reagon SNCC freedom singer and founder ofSweet Honey in the Rock
Author: Reagon, Bernice Johnson; Harding, Vincent; Harding, RachelE.; Veterans of Hope Project.
Year: 2000
City: Denver, CO
Publisher: Veterans of Hope Project
Type: 1 videocassette (40 min.)
Abstract: In this interview, Reagon, the founder of the accappellagroup, Sweet honey in the Rock, discusses her involvement with SNCC. Reagon became acquainted with thenon-violence organization while attending Albany State College. She credits acivil rights protest for sparking her "second baptism." She goes on to discuss her relationship withthe Freedom Singers. Her involvementwith the singing group introduced her to singing's dynamic power.
Notes: Bernice Johnson Reagon : the singing warrior.
Singing warrior.
Veterans of Hope educational video archiveand pamphlet series.
Interviewers: Vincent Harding, RachelHarding.
URL: http://www.ebts.edu/library/AV_collections/video_uc8.htm
Title: Black Cultural Center 20th Year Anniversary Celebration
Year: 1989
City: West Lafayette, IN
Publisher: Black Cultural Center @ Purdue University
1 videocassette (15 min.)
Abstract: The video features a reception comemorating the twentiethyear of the Black Cultural Center, as well as a tour of the former facility.
Title: Black Cultural Center: Special Events
Year: 2000
City: West Lafayette, IN
Publisher: Black Cultural Center @ Purdue University
1 videocassette (20 min.)
Abstract: The video features a student social, editorial staff membersat work, and a jazz/blues concert.
Title:
Black is ... black ain't
Year: 1995
City: San Francisco, Calif.
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 1 videocassette (87 minutes)
Abstract: This film examines black identity and the definition of"blackness." The directoruses his grandmother's gumbo to serve as an example of the rich diversity ofblack identities. As the cameramanmoves throughout the country, viewers have a face-to-face encounter with Blackpeople that are old, young, rich, poor, rural, urban, gay, and straight. These people are wrestling with differentdefinitions of what it means to be black. This film scrutinizes the meaning of being "too black" or"not black enough." Performances and commentaries from people such as Bill T. Jones, EssexHemphill, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Cornel West, Maulana Kargena and othersoffer a powerful commentary about the diversity of being black.
Notes: Marlon Riggs, producer and director; Nicole Atkinson,co-producer; Christine Badgley, co-director and co-editor; Bob Paris,co-editor.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/blackis.htm
Title: The Black press soldiers without swords
Author: Nelson, Stanley
Year: 1998
City: [S.l.]
San Francisco, CA
Publisher: Half Nelson Productions Inc. ;
California Newsreel [distributor]
Type: 1 videocassette (86 min.)
Abstract: "Too long have others spoken for us". Presents ahistory of African-American newspapers and journalism from the mid-19th centurythrough the 20th century. Tells of the struggles against censorship anddiscrimination and for freedom of the press, with commentary by historians,journalists, and photojournalists,
Notes: produced and directed by Stanley Nelson.
Soldiers without swords.
Title from cassette label.
Narrator: Joe Morton; commentary byhistorians and journalists: Jane Rhodes, Vernon Jarrett, Phyl Garland,Christopher Reed, James Grossman, Earl Calloway, Patrick Washburn, TimuelBlack, Edward Robinson, George Barbour, Robert R. Lavelle, Charles Harris, VeraJackson, Frank E. Bolden, Edna Chappell McKenzie, John Sengstacke, EvelynCunningham.
Camera, Bobby Shepard, Rick Butler; editor,Lewis Erskine; music, Ron Carter; writers, Jill Nelson, Stanley Nelson, LouPotter, Marcia Smith.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/blackpre.htm
Title: Black reparations
Year: 2000
Publisher: National Cable Satellite Corporation
Abstract: Mr. Robinson talked about the lack of African-Americanfigures in artwork depicting American history in the Capitol and aboutreparations for Blacks still due since the years of slavery. He also responded to viewer telephone calls,faxes, and electronic mail.
Title: Black theatre: the making of a movement
City: San Francisco
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 1 videocassette (114 minutes)
Abstract: Shows the theatre movement from the 1950s, 60, and 70s. This video encyclopedia is a chronology ofthe leading figures, institutions, and events of a movement that transformedthe American stage. Artists such asAmiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, James Earl Jones, and Notzake Shange talk about theirdreams of Black theatre. The video usesclips from the Raisin in the Sun, Black Girl, Dutchman, and For Colored Girls... to illustrate the foundation for the present Black theatre.
Notes: Woodie King, Jr., producer and director; Franklin Manno,editor; Ed Pitt and Joan Sandler, associate producers; Charles Sessons,assistant editor.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/blackthe.htm
Title: Black women on the light, dark thang