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
Author: Crenshaw, Celeste; Caffey, Paula; Women Make Movies (Firm)
Year: 1997
City: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: Women Make Movies
Call Number: E185.625
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c479.htm
Title: Black, bold & beautiful Black women's hair
Author: Valcin, Nadine; Kawaja, Jennifer; Sereny, Julia; SiennaFilms (Firm); National Film Board of Canada.; CBC Newsworld.; Women Make Movies(Firm)
Year: 1999
City: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: Women Make Movies [distributor]
Type: 1 videocassette (40 min.)
Abstract: Explores the importance of various hairstyles ofAfro-American women and how these styles define the personal identity of eachwoman.
Notes: a Sienna Films production in co-production with the NationalFilm Board of Canada and in association with CBC Newsworld ; director, NadineValcin ; producers, Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny.
Black, bold and beautiful
Black women's hair
Narrator, Jemeni; featuring: AmunaBaraka-Clarke, Vivian Barclay, Markeisha McLaren, Masani Montague, Beverly Morgan,and Aisha Shillingford.
Directors of photography, Carolyn Wong,Basil C. Young, Rion Gonzales ; editors, David New, Ricardo Acosta.
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c478.htm
Title: Blackwoman in antiquity
Author: Sertima, Ivan Van
Type: 1 videocassette (52 min.)
Abstract: Dr. Sertima's talk focuses on the legacy and contribution ofblack women throughout history. Specifically, the speaker emphasizes theprominence of Black women in Greek mythology, and their presence in the historyof Judaism and Christianity. Furthermore, he reiterates the position of blackwomen as monarchs in the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Ethiopa, as well astheir liaisons with early European royalty.
Title: Blackwoman in antiquity
Author: Sertima, Ivan Van
Type: 1 videocassette (52 min.)
Abstract: Dr. Sertima's talk focuses on the legacy and contribution ofblack women throughout history. Specifically, the speaker emphasizes theprominence of Black women in Greek mythology, and their presence in the historyof Judaism and Christianity. Furthermore, he reiterates the position of blackwomen as monarchs in the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Ethiopa, as well astheir liaisons with early European royalty.
Title: Breaking the ice the Mary Ann Shadd story
Author: Sweeney, Sylvia; Raymont, Peter; White Pine Pictures (Firm);First Run/Icarus Films.
Year: 1999
City: New York, NY
Publisher: First Run/Icarus Films
Type: 1 videocassette (23 min.)
Abstract: A dramatic recreation of the story of Mary Ann Shadd, anabolitionist, suffragete and integrationist. Living in Windsor, Ontario, shefought for integrated education, battled segregationists and started the firstintegrated school in Canada. She later became the first female newspaper editorand the first black female attorney in North America.
Notes: directed by Sylvia Sweeney.
Breaking the ice :
A scattering of seeds.
Producer, Peter Raymont ; director of photography,Ben Matilainen ; editors, Duncan Christie, Sylvia Sweeney ; original musiccomposed & performed by Sylvia Sweeney.
"White Pine Pictures."
Date from container; date on frames: c1997.
URL: http://www.frif.com/new2000/break.html
Title: Brotherly love
Author: Bagwell, Orlando; Bellows, Susan; Fayer, Steve; Bassett,Angela; Reagon, Bernice Johnson; WGBH (Television station : Boston Mass.); WGBHEducational Foundation.; PBS Video.
Year: 1998
City: Boston, MA
[Alexandria, VA]
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation ;
PBS Video [distributor]
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)
Abstract: A four part series portraying the struggles of the Africanpeople in America, from their arrival in the 1600s to the last days before theCivil War. In this third episode, during the first 50 years of the new nation,freedmen and fugitive slaves in Philadelphia push the country to live up to thepromises made in its Constitution. But with the invention of the cotton gin,slavery expands into America's western frontier, and a revolution in Haitiinspires slave rebellions throughout the southern United States.
Notes: produced by WGBH Boston ; produced and directed by OrlandoBagwell, Susan Bellows.
Africans in America: America's journeythrough slavery.
America's journey through slavery.
Africans in America ; 3.
Originally broadcast on PBS October 21,1998.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Writer, Steve Fayer ; associate producer,Patricia Garcia Rios ; editor, Charles Scott ; music score, Bernice JohnsonReagon ; director of photography, Michael Chin.
Narrator: Angela Bassett.
Title: Case for Black reparations
Author: Conyers, John Jr.; Robinson, Randall; Aiyetoro, Adjoa;Ogletree, Charles; Height, Dorothy; Henderson, Wade; Matsuda, Mari; Walters,Ron; Westley, Robert; Mazrui, Ali
Year: 2000
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: C-SPAN Archives, 2000
Type: 1 videocassette (71 min)
Abstract: An esteemed panel of politicians, academics, and activists presenttheir views regarding the ongoing debate on whether or not the descendants ofenslaved Africans in the United States should receive monetary compensation.
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/03/struggle_black_reparations/
Title: Case for Black reparations
Author: Conyers, John Jr.; Robinson, Randall; Aiyetoro, Adjoa;Ogletree, Charles; Height, Dorothy; Henderson, Wade; Matsuda, Mari; Walters,Ron; Westley, Robert; Mazrui, Ali
Year: 2000
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: C-SPAN Archives, 2000
Type: 1 videocassette (71 min)
Abstract: An esteemed panel of politicians, academics, and activistspresent their views regarding the ongoing debate on whether or not thedescendants of enslaved Africans in the United States should receive monetarycompensation.
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/03/struggle_black_reparations/
Title: Charles Johnson : a conversation with Charles Johnson
Author: Johnson, Charles Richard
Year: 1992
City: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 1 videocassette (27 min.)
Abstract: Johnson describes his literary objective: to explore classic,metaphysical questions from East and West against the backdrop of African lifeand history.
Notes: SSR-RTSI Swiss Television production.
In black and white ; 1.
Ethnic studies video collection.
Bibliographical references on container.
Director, Matteo Bellinelli.
Conversation with Charles Johnson
In black and white 1.
Ethnic studies video collection
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0048-1
Title: The Cinematic jazz of Julie Dash
Author: Welbon, Yvonne; Dash, Julie; Our Film Works (Firm); WomenMake Movies (Firm)
Year: 1997
City: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: distributed by Women Make Movies
Type: 1 videocassette (27 min.)
Abstract: Afro-American filmmaker, producer, writer and director JulieDash talks about her life and work and the difficulties she has had getting herfilms distributed and accepted. Interspersed with her comments are clips fromthree of her films, Daughters of the dust, Illusions, and Diary of an AfricanNun, and she talks about the making of a fourth film, Four women. One of herprincipal aims, she says, is "to redefine images of black women on thescreen."
Notes: written and produced by Yvonne Welbon; Our Film Works
Julie Dash.
Photography, Ayanna Udongo.
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c329.htm
Title: Coffee coloured children
Author: McKay, Annette; McKay, Michael; McKay, Haley; Gray, Richard;Lunig, Michael; Onwurah, Madge; Onwurah, Simon K.; Onwurah, Ngozi A.
Year: 1988
City: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: Women Make Movies [distributor].
Type: 1 videocassette (15 min.):; sd., col. with b&wsequences;; 1/2 in.
Abstract: A dramatized look at the physical and psychological stressproduced by the racial prejudice on the children of interracial marriage -- inthis case the three children of a white mother and and absent black fatherliving in England.
Notes: Title on container: Coffee colored children./ "ANon-Alligned production."/ VHS format./ Participants: Haley McKay, MichaelMcKay, Annette McKay, Madge Onwurah.
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c102.htm
Title: The color of fear
Author: Lee, Mun Wah; Hunter, Monty; Stir-Fry Productions.
Year: 1994
City: Oakland, CA
Publisher: Stir-Fry Productions
Type: 1 videocassette (90 min.)
Abstract: Eight North American men of different races talk togetherabout how racism affects them.
Notes: produced and directed by Lee Mun Wah ; co-producer, MontyHunter.
Roberto Almanzan, David Christensen, GordonClay, David Lee, Victor Lewis, Yutaka Matsumoto, Loren Moye, Hugh Vasquez, LeeMun Wah.
Photography, Rick Butler ; editor, RichardC. Bock ; music, Spencer Brewer.
URL: http://www.tcnj.edu/~kpearson/color/program.html
Title: Connected careers for the future
Author: Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
Year: 1997
City: New York, NY
Publisher: Globalvision Inc.
Type: 1 videocassette (30 min.)
Abstract: Often the best careers are international. Afro-Americans,Latinos, Native Americans and Asian-Americans are breaking ground in allprofessions. This video goes to their workplaces and introduces some remarkablepeople who have been able to carve out their own future and create their owncareers. We learn about their education, internships, foreign languagetraining, the work they do now, and the mentors who helped them along the way.
Notes: a production of Globalvision.
Careers for the future.
Host: Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
"A guide to international careers foryoung people of color"--Container.
URL: http://www.globalvision.org/program/connected/sect3a.html
Title: Dark Midnight When I Rise
Author: Ward, Andrew
Year: 2000
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: C-Span; National Cable Satellite Corporation, 2000
Type: 1 videocassette (67 min.)
Abstract: Andrew Ward, author of "Dark Midnight When IRise," discusses the incredible story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.Established to raise much needed funds for the operation of Fisk University,the Jubilee Singers undertook a hectic singing tour, which spanned the easternUnited States and Europe. In the process, the nine Fisk students, comprisingthe choir, introduced the world - for the first time - to the soulfulspirituals of Black America. However, Ward points out that in spite of theiraccomplishments, the singers constantly battled discrimination and wretchedphysical conditions, which took a constant toll on their health and voices.Following Ward's presentation is a question and answer session.
Title: Dark Midnight When I Rise
Author: Ward, Andrew
Year: 2000
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: C-Span; National Cable Satellite Corporation, 2000
Type: 1 videocassette (67 min.)
Abstract: Andrew Ward, author of "Dark Midnight When IRise," discusses the incredible story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.Established to raise much needed funds for the operation of Fisk University,the Jubilee Singers undertook a hectic singing tour, which spanned the easternUnited States and Europe. In the process, the nine Fisk students, comprisingthe choir, introduced the world - for the first time - to the soulfulspirituals of Black America. However, Ward points out that in spite of theiraccomplishments, the singers constantly battled discrimination and wretchedphysical conditions, which took a constant toll on their health and voices.Following Ward's presentation is a question and answer session.
Title: Dr. Darlene Clark Hines: Black Women's Symposium PurdueUniversity
Author: Hines, Darlene Clark
Year: 2003
City: West Lafayette, IN
Publisher: Black Cultural Center at Purdue University, 2003
Type: 1 videocassette, 58 min
Abstract: Dr. Hines talks about the Black Women's History Movementwith particular attention to the early pioneers in this field. She alsodiscusses her personal work, as well as the major contributions of otherscholars, and the future direction of Black Women's Studies research.
Title: Dr. Darlene Clark Hines: Black Women's Symposium PurdueUniversity
Author: Hines, Darlene Clark
Year: 2003
City: West Lafayette, IN
Publisher: Black Cultural Center at Purdue University, 2003
Type: 1 videocassette, 58 min
Abstract: Dr. Hines talks about the Black Women's History Movementwith particular attention to the early pioneers in this field. She alsodiscusses her personal work, as well as the major contributions of otherscholars, and the future direction of Black Women's Studies research.
Title: Elizabeth Catlett sculpting the truth
Author: Catlett, Elizabeth
Year: 1999
City: Chappaqua, NY
Publisher: L & S Video
Type: 1 videocassette (28 min.)
Abstract: The works and inspirations of artist Elizabeth Catlett, inparticular her sculpture.
Notes: created and produced by Linda Freeman ; written and directedby David irving.
Elizabeth Catlett, sculpting the truth.
Sculpting the truth.
African-American artists series.
Date on container, 1998.
Host, Faith Ringgold.
Music, Joshua Stone ; director ofphotography, Mike Harlow, Charles Gansa ; editor, Tom Campbell ;director/Mexico, Juan Mora Catlett ; camera, Jorge Prior.
Videocassette release of a 1999 motion picture.
URL: http://www.landsvideo.com/E_Catlett.htm
Title: An evening with Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners
Author: Morrison, Toni
Year: 2001
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: National Cable Satellite Corp.; C-Span Archives
Type: 1 videocassette (83 min.)
Notes: Mr. Hamill moderated this discussion about literature andthe craft of writing with authors Toni Morrison and Frank McCourt. The authors discussed a wide range of subjectspertaining to books and writing, including: the role of the writer as an agentof social change; influential and important books; the ingredients of abest-selling book; the relationship of an author to his or her characters; andmethods and habits of writing. After alengthy discussion among themselves, the authors answered some questions frommembers of the audience. The organizerscalled this event "Literary Legends: Stories of Power and Passion."and it was part of "The Nation's Capital Distinguished LectureSeries" at the Kennedy Center. Aired on March 6, 2001
URL: http://www.gwsae.org/SpeakersSeries/LiteraryLegends.htm
Title: Facing the façade
Author: Harkness, Jerald B.
Year: 1994
City: [New York]
Publisher: Cinema Guild
Type: 1 videocassette (55 min.)
Abstract: The lives and experiences of eight African-American studentsattending Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.
Notes: Director of photography, Otis Jones ; narrated by AveryBrooks ; original music by Ronald E. Johnson, II ; editor, J.M. Johnson, III.
Produced by Visionary Productions, inassociation with William G. Mays, the Indianapolis Record and the Indiana ArtsCommission.
Indianapolis record.
URL: http://www.purdue.edu/bcc/library/facade.html
Title: Faith Ringgold paints Crown Heights
Author: Ringgold, Faith
Year: 1998
City: Chappaqua, NY
Publisher: L & S Video Inc.
Type: 1 videocassette (28 min.)
Abstract: Faith Ringgold details the creation of the quilt she createdto represent the diverse cultures and traditions comprising the area of CrownHeights in New York city.
Notes: created and produced by Linda Freeman ; written and directedby David Irving.
African-American artists series.
Videocassette release of a 1995 motionpicture.
Director of photography, Mike Romero, SusanMusaka, Mike Harlow ; editor, Larry Blume ; music, Josh Stone.
Host, Robert Farris Thompson.
URL: http://www.landsvideo.com/F_Ringgold2.htm
Title: Faith Ringgold the last story quilt
Author: Ringgold, Faith
Year: 1998
City: Chappaqua, NY
Publisher: L&S Video Inc.
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 28 min.)
Abstract: A profile of the life and work of Faith Ringgold, notedAfro-American woman artist who specializes in painting on quilts and othercloth surfaces.
Notes: written and directed by David Irving ; created and produced byLinda Freeman.
Last story quilt.
African-American artists series.
Documentary.
Lowery Sims.
Director of photography, Steve Harris;editor, Alan McCormick.
URL: http://www.landsvideo.com/F_Ringgold1.htm
Title: Family across the sea
Year: 1991
City: San Francisco, Calif.
Ny
Publisher: California Newsreel ;
dist. by Modern Educational Video Network
Type: 1 videocassette (56 min.)
Abstract: Shows the connection between the Gullah people of South Carolinaand the people of Sierra Leone. Demonstrates how African Americans kept theirties with their homeland through centuries of oppression in their speech, songsand customs. The return of a Gullah delegation to Sierra Leone becomes ahomecoming for all African Americans.
Notes: a production of South Carolina ETV ; producer and writer,Tim Carrier ; director and videographer, Domino Boulware.
America : a cultural mosaic.
Augusta Baker, narrator.
Editors, Elaine Cooper, Mary Taylor, TimCarrier.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/family.htm
Title: First person singular John Hope Franklin
Author: Franklin, John Hope
Year: 1997
City: [Alexandria, Va.]
Publisher: PBS Video
Type: 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Abstract: Historian John Hope Franklin looks back at his life andwork.
Notes: produced by Dick Young Productions Ltd. for Lives andLegacies Films, Inc.
First person singular, John Hope Franklin.
John Hope Franklin.
Producer and director, Dick Young ; writer,Stephan Wilkinson ; photography, Dick Young ; music, Jim Papoulis ; narrator,Charles Kuralt.
"Presenter, South Carolina ETV"
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Title: Flyers in search of a dream
Year: 1988
City: [Alexandria, Va.]
Publisher: PBS Video
Type: 1 videocassette (58 min.)
Abstract: Documents the adventures of early black aviators. IncludesBessie Coleman, the first Black pilot to be licensed ;001 18791945
Documents the adventures of early black aviators.Includes Bessie Coleman, the first Black pilot to be licensed ; William J.Powell, Sr., Herbert Julian, and James Herman Banning.
Notes: "This program was produced under the auspices of theUCLA Center for Afro-American Studies."
Host/narrator, Tanya Hart; Philip Hart;WGBH Educational Foundation.
VHS format [NTSC] videocassette release ofa 1986 production.
Executive producer, Philip Hart, RaquelOrtiz/WGBH.
producers, Philip Hart, Barbara Barrow-Murray, Tanya Hart;writers, Philip and Tanya Hart; camera, Tim Garraty ; editors, John Baynard ...et al.
URL: http://videoindex.pbs.org/program/program.jsp?item_id=7960
Title: For gold and glory
Author: Davis, Ossie
Year: 2003
City: Indianapolis, IN
Publisher: FYI Productions
Type: videocassette, 56 min
Abstract: For "Gold and Glory" is a uniquely American storythat chronicle the history of the black auto racing league through the eyes andemotions of te circuit's greatest driver, Charlie Wiggins, a four-time"Gold and Glory" champion who earned the title "the Negro SpeedKing." This award-winning film is narrated by acclaimed actor Ossie Davisand set to a memorable musical score by jazz legend, Pulitzer and Grammynominee Dr. David Baker.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34133-7.shtml
Title: For gold and glory
Author: Davis, Ossie
Year: 2003
City: Indianapolis, IN
Publisher: FYI Productions
Type: videocassette, 56 min
Abstract: For "Gold and Glory" is a uniquely American storythat chronicle the history of the black auto racing league through the eyes andemotions of te circuit's greatest driver, Charlie Wiggins, a four-time"Gold and Glory" champion who earned the title "the Negro SpeedKing." This award-winning film is narrated by acclaimed actor Ossie Davisand set to a memorable musical score by jazz legend, Pulitzer and Grammynominee Dr. David Baker.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34133-7.shtml
Title: For Gold and Glory
Author: Davis, Ossie
Year: 2003
City: Indianapolis, IN
Publisher: FYI Productions
Type: videocassette, 56 min
Abstract: For "Gold and Glory" is a uniquely American storythat chronicle the history of the black auto racing league through the eyes andemotions of te circuit's greatest driver, Charlie Wiggins, a four-time"Gold and Glory" champion who earned the title "the Negro SpeedKing." This award-winning film is narrated by acclaimed actor Ossie Davisand set to a memorable musical score by jazz legend, Pulitzer and Grammynominee Dr. David Baker.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34133-7.shtml
Title: Four by Ailey
Author: Grimm, Thomas
Year: 1986
City: West Long Branch
Publisher: Kultur
Type: 1 videocassette (140 min.)
Abstract: Four short compositions performed by the Alvin AileyAmerican Dance Theater, with an introduction by Alvin Ailey.
Notes: Danmarks Radio/ZDF/RM Arts ; produced and directed by ThomasGrimm.
Four by Ailey.
Evening with the Alvin Ailey American DanceTheater.
Divining / choreography by Judith Jamison ;music, Kimati Dinizulu, Monti Ellison -- Revelations / choreography by AlvinAiley -- The stack-up / choreography by Talley Beatty -- Cry / choreography byAlvin Ailey.
Artistic director, Alvin Ailey ; associateartistic director, Mary Barnett.
Divining.
Revelations.
Stack-up.
Cry.
URL: http://www.kultur.com/AB2046000/showdetl.cfm?&User_ID=702210&St=9147&St2=66183640&St3=41100228&DS_ID=3&Product_ID=2171&DID=6
Title: Furious flower : conversations with African American poets
Author: Hodges, John; California Newsreel (Firm)
Year: 1998
City: San Francisco
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 4 videocassettes (369 min.)
Abstract: A video anthology of African American poetry from 1960 to1995. Black verse from the Harlem Renaissance through the Black Arts Movementof the 1960s is discussed and 25 noteable poets are introduced and profiled.Included in this anthology are Rita Dove, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, NikkiGiovanni and Michael Harper.
Notes: Furious flowers.
Director/editor, John Hodges ; producer,Judith McCray.
Title on container: Furious flowers.
"A facilitator's guide of the film isavailable in hard copy or on line"--California Newsreel website.
v. 1. Elders : Samuel W. Allen, Mari Evans,Naomi Long Madgett, Alvin Aubert, Pinkie Gordon Lane -- v. 2. Warriors : AmiriBaraka, Haki R. Madhubuti, Kalamu ya Salaam, Sonia Sanchez, Eugene Redmond,Nikki Giovanni -- v. 3. Seers : Rita Dove, Toi Derricotte, Dolores Kendrick,Sherley Anne Williams, Gerald Barrax, E. Ethelbert Miller, Michael S. Harper --v. 4. Initiates : Elizabeth Alexander, the Dark Room Collective.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/furious.htm
Title: Goin' to Chicago
Author: King, George
Year: 1994
City: [San Francisco, CA
Publisher: California Newsreel]
Type: 1 videocassette (70 min.)
Abstract: A group of longtime Chicago residents returns to Greenville,Mississippi for a reunion with family and friends. Participants talk abouttheir lives and their reasons for moving north. Includes historical footage ofMississippi and Chicago.
Notes: produced and directed by George King ; presented by GeorgeKing & Associates, The Center for the Study of Southern Culture and theAfro-American Studies Program at the University of Mississippi.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/gointoch.htm
Title: Gotta make this journey: Sweet Honey in the Rock
Author: Productions, Eye of the Storm; group), Sweet Honey in theRock (Musical; (Firm), Women Make Movies; Network, Modern Educational Video
Year: 1984
City: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: Women Make Movies; Modern Educational Video Network
Type: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. : 1/2 in.
Abstract: Presents a documentary tribute to the radical Black women'sa cappella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, whose music serves as the cause ofsocial activism. Shows the group in concert and gives profiles of its members.
Notes: VHS format.
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c306.htm
Title: Group destruction (pt. 1) Culture or techology (pt. 2)
Publisher: Tony Brown Productions
Abstract: Panel discussion with Afrocentric scholars including Na'imAkbar, Molefi K. Asante, Frances Cress Welsing, Asa Hillard, Maulana Karengaand Linda James Meyers
Title: Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons Islamic scholar and SNCC organizer
Author: Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah; Harding, Vincent; Kapur,Sudarshan; Veterans of Hope Project.
Year: 2000
City: Denver, CO
Publisher: Veterans of Hope Project
Type: 1 videocassette (44 min.)
Abstract: In this interview, Simmons, an Islamic scholar and formerSNCC organizer discusses her involvement with non-violence student group. Simmons was introduced to SNCC during herfreshman year at Spelman College. As aSNCC student representative, Simmons toured the Deep South, where sheencouraged both Black and White residents to fight for equality. The latter part of the interview addressesSimmons' relationship with Islam.
Notes: executive producers, Vincent G. Harding, Rosemarie FreeneyHarding ; producers, Rachel Elizabeth Harding, Sudarshan Kapur.
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons : following thecall.
Following the call.
Veterans of Hope educational video archiveand pamphlet series.
Interviewers, Vincent Harding, SudarshanKapur.
Title: Held in trust the story of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper
Year: 1996
City: [Alexandria, Va.]
Publisher: PBS Home Video [distributor]
Type: 1 videocassette (59 min.)
Abstract: Flipper (1856-1940) was the first black graduate from WestPoint Military Academy. Following assignments with the 10th Calvary 'BuffaloSoldiers', he fell victim to racial prejudice, was framed on trumped up chargesof embezzlement and was dishonorably discharged for 'conduct unbecoming anofficer'
Notes: KCOS, El Paso ; producers, Scott Martin, Wende Whitus ;director, Laura Tate ; screenplay, Jeffrey Goldberg.
Introduction by Colin Powell ; narrated byOssie Davis.
G. Robert Snead.
"Based on the play by Bea Bragg,Richard Hobbs."
Originally produced as a television programin 1995.
General.
URL: http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/88104.htm
Title: Homecoming- sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirtand clay
Author: Gilbert, Charlene
Year: 1998
City: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: [distributed by] California Newsreel
Type: 1 videocassette (57 min.)
Abstract: Documentary examines the history of land ownership and ruraleconomics in the South among Afro-Americans from the end of the Civil War tothe present. Includes archival footage and photographs and commentary.
Notes: produced in association with Independent Television Service; produced by Kinfolk Productions, Inc. ; produced and directed by CharleneGilbert.
Sometimes I am haunted by memories of reddirt and clay.
Director of photography, Michelle Crenshaw; editor, Kim Mayhorn ; music, Dwight Andrews.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/homecome.htm
Title: The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Delivers keynotesaddress to WEST COAST HIP - HOP SUMMIT
Author: Farrakhan, Louis
Year: 2002
City: Chicago, IL
Publisher: FCI Broadcasting
Type: 1 videocassette (87 min.)
Abstract: Minister Louis Farrakhan addresses a gathering of Hip-Hopartists and fans. Specifically, he discusses the current state of theAfrican-American community and its link to the Hip-Hop culture.
Title: Horace Pippin: therewill be peace
Author: Irving, David
Year: 1996
City: Chappaqua, NY
Publisher: L&S Video Inc., 1996
Type: 1 videocassette (28min.)
Abstract: What many an artist spends years learning Pippin knew byinstinct. A self-taught artist, Horace Pippin's paintings reflect his own lifeand concerns. A poet whose language is Art, he expressed himself with forcefuldirectness, striking color and originality.
Title: Horace Pippin: therewill be peace
Author: Irving, David
Year: 1996
City: Chappaqua, NY
Publisher: L&S Video Inc., 1996
Type: 1 videocassette (28min.)
Abstract: What many an artist spends years learning Pippin knew byinstinct. A self-taught artist, Horace Pippin's paintings reflect his own lifeand concerns. A poet whose language is Art, he expressed himself with forcefuldirectness, striking color and originality.
Title: I Remember Harlem Project
Author: Williams, Eugene; Cook, LaVern Adams; Saunders, Juanita
Year: 2002
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: C-SPAN; National Cable Satellite Corporation
1 videocassette (10 min.)
Abstract: At the Harlem Partnership Center senior citizens reminiscedabout their lives in Harlem during the Renaissance, and also wrote about theirfavorite childhood memories. They also talked about misperceptions aboutHarlem. Their writings are posted on an Internet site as part of the "IRemember Harlem" project. Other senior Harlem residents who spoke wereWilliam Miles, Camille Layne, Juanita Randolph Howard, Wilhelmina Richardson,and Delores Dickens Richards.
URL: http://www.c-spanstore.com/c-spanstore/169474.html
Title: I'll make me a world
Author: Pollard, Sam
Year: 1999
City: [Alexandria, Va.]
Publisher: PBS Video
Type: 6 videocassettes (360 min.)
Abstract: I'll make me a world profiles Afro-American musicians,artists and authors throughout twentieth century America.
Notes: produced by Blackside, Inc. in association withThirteen/WNET New York ; producers, Sam Pollard, Betty Ciccarelli, TracyHeather Strain, Denise A. Greene.
1 guide (7 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.)
Subtitle on containers: A century ofAfrican-American arts.
Close captioned.
Immw101-immw106.
v. 1. Lift every voice, 1900-1924 -- v. 2.Without fear or shame, 1920-1937 -- v. 3. Bright like a sun, 1935-1954 -- v. 4.The dream keepers, 1940-1965 -- v. 5. Not a rhyme time, 1963-1986 -- v. 6. Thefreedom you will take, 1985-the present.
Lift every voice.
Without fear or shame.
Bright like a sun.
Dream Keepers.
Not a rhyme time.
Freedom you will take.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/immaw/
Title: In depth: bell hooks
Author: hooks, bell
Year: 2002
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: C-Span; National Cable Satellite Corporation
Type: 2 videocassettes (178 min.)
Abstract: bell hooks talked about her life and writings and respondedto the viewer commments and questions. Ms. hooks is a Professor of English atCity College, and the Gradute Center of the City University of New York. Shehas written over 20 books including: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism(1981), Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center] (1984), Killing Rage (1995),Where We Stand (2000), Salvation: Black People and Love (2001), and Communion:The Female Search for Love (2002).
URL: http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169843.html
Title: In depth: Cornel West
Author: West, Cornel
Year: 2002
Publisher: National Cable Satellite Corporation, 2002
Type: 2 videocassettes (183 min.)
Abstract: PProfessor West talked about his entire body of work andresponded to audience telephone calls, faxes and electronic mail. ProfessorWest has written or edited more than twenty books, on topics ranging fromreligion and philosophy to politics and race.
URL: http://www.c-spanstore.com/168013.html
Title: In depth: Toni Morrison
Author: Morrison, Toni
Year: 2001
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: National Cable Satellite Corp., C-Span Archives
Type: 2 videocassettes (180 min.)
Notes: Professor Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize and was the firstblack American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. She is a professor of humanities atPrinceton University. She discussed herwritings, her life, and the craft of writing. She responded to audience telephone calls and electronic mail. Aired on February 4, 2001
URL: http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/162375.html
Title: In motion Amiri Baraka
Author: Bourne, St Clair; Poter, Lou; Baraka, Imamu Amiri; Chamba(Organization); Facets Multimedia (Chicago Ill.)
Year: 1989
City: Chicago, Ill.
Publisher: Facets Video
Type: 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.)
Abstract: Documentary covering Baraka from his early days in GreenwichVillage to his present literary and political activities. Focuses on the final2 weeks before his sentencing at federal court on the charges of resistingarrest.
Notes: produced by the Chamba Organization.
Producer and director, St. Clair Bourne ;writter, Lou Poter.
Amiri Baraka.
URL: http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/82131.htm
Title: In remembrance of Martin
Author: King, Coretta Scott; Young, Andrew; Kennedy, Senator Edward;Gregory, Dick; Lewis, John; Jackson, Jesse; Abernathy, Ralph; Carter, PresidentJames
Year: 1986
City: Atlanta
Publisher: Idanha Films, Martin Luther King Jr. Center for NonviolentSocial Change
1 videocassette (57 min.)
Abstract: Civil rights leaders, politicians, prominent intellectuals,family members and friends comment on the impact and legacy of Dr. MartinLuther King Jr. on American society. Important events in Dr. King's career as acivil libertarian are also discussed such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1956),the Birmingham Campaign (1963), the March on Washington (1963), the Nobel PeacePrize (1964), the Selma Campaign (1965), the Chicago Campaign (1966),Opposition to the Vietnam War (1967), and the Memphis Garbage Workers Strike(1968). The documentary comes to a close with an examination of Dr. King'sassassination on April 4, 1968.
URL: http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/87069.htm
Title: Inspired by the past: a vision for the future
Author: Arrington Jr., Richard; Vann, David; Woolfolk, Odessa;Pijeaux, Lawrence J.
Year: 1997
City: Birmingham, AL
Publisher: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, 1997
Type: 1 videocassette (10 min)
Abstract: Current city officials and executives of the BirminghamCivil Rights Institute discuss the formation of the institute and its overallgoals. The presentation also includes a video tour of the facility.
Title: The invisible soldiers: unheard voices
Author: Wright, J. J.; Hill, Walter; Anders, Steven; Brinkley,Douglas; Cropman, Alan; Brooke, Senator Edward; Inouye, Senator Daniel
Year: 2000
City: Marlboro, MA
Publisher: ComTel Productions; PEVUE, 2000
Type: 1 videocassette (58 min.)
Abstract: Ex-soldiers and scholars discuss the experiences ofAfrican-American soldiers and non-combatants in World War II, with a focus onracism in the armed forces, and the contibutions of blacks to Allied victory.
URL: http://www.korrnet.org/bahais/001109Invisible.htm
Title: The invisible soldiers: unheard voices
Author: Wright, J. J.; Hill, Walter; Anders, Steven; Brinkley,Douglas; Cropman, Alan; Brooke, Senator Edward; Inouye, Senator Daniel
Year: 2000
City: Marlboro, MA
Publisher: ComTel Productions; PEVUE, 2000
Type: 1 videocassette (58 min.)
Abstract: Ex-soldiers and scholars discuss the experiences ofAfrican-American soldiers and non-combatants in World War II, with a focus onracism in the armed forces, and the contibutions of blacks to Allied victory.
URL: http://www.korrnet.org/bahais/001109Invisible.htm
Title: Ishmael Reed
Author: Reed, Ishmael
Year: 1989
City: [Los Angeles, Calif.]
Publisher: The Lannan Foundation
Type: 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Abstract: On May 26, 1989, in Venice, Calif., Reed read from his Newand selected poems and his novel The terrible threes. Includes portions of aninterview with poet Lewis MacAdams.
Notes: the Lannan Literary Series in association with MetropolitanPictures and EZTV ; [produced and directed] by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr.
Lannan literary videos ; 15.
Interviewer, Lewis MacAdams.
Camera, John Dorr, Michael Masucci ; editors,John Dorr, Lewis MacAdams.
Title: Jacob Lawrence an intimate portrait
Author: Babcock, Grover; Whitesides, Elvin; Lawrence, Jacob; Knight,Gwendolyn; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.; Home Vision (Firm)
Year: 1993
City: [Chicago, Ill.]
Publisher: Public Media Home Vision
Type: 1 videocassette (25 min.)
Abstract: Documents the life and work of Jacob Lawrence, throughinterviews with the painter, his wife Gwendolyn Knight, colleagues and criticsinterwoven with examples of his work.
Notes: presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Portrait of an artist
Producers/directors, Grover Babcock, ElvinWhitesides.
URL: http://librarymedia.org/visual/titles/lawrence.htm
Title: Jacob Lawrence the glory of expression
Author: Lawrence, Jacob
Year: 1998
City: Chappaqua, NY
Publisher: L & S Video Inc.
Type: 1 videocassette (28 min.)
Abstract: The black artist Jacob Lawrence discusses his work and life.Lawrence's characteristic mediums are gouache and tempera.
Notes: created and produced by Linda Freeman ; written and directedby David Irving.
African-American artists series.
Narrator, Ossie Davis ; photography, SteveHarris ; editor, Alan McCormick ; music, Joshua Stone.
URL: http://www.landsvideo.com/J_Lawrence.htm
Title: James Lawson teacher and practitioner of nonviolence :former pastor, Holman United Methodist Church, Los Angeles, California
Author: Lawson, James M.; Harding, Vincent; Kapur, Sudarshan;Veterans of Hope Project.
Year: 2000
City: Denver, CO
Publisher: Veterans of Hope Project
Type: 1 videocassette (40 min.)
Abstract: In this interview, the Reverend James Lawson, a United Methodist minister, discusses his participationwith SNCC. Lawson claims that hispacificism comes from his mother. As asmall child, Lawson states that his mother believed that violence was not thekey in overcoming racial oppression. Lawson recounts his draft violation, years in India, and mostimportantly, his relationship with the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1957, under the instruction of King,Lawson moved to Nashville, TN, where he taught the fundamentals of non-violenceto civil rights activists. For 14years, Rev. Lawson was SNCC's president.
Notes: Teacher and practitioner of nonviolence.
James Lawson : Seamless cloth of faith andstruggle.
Veterans of Hope educational video archiveand pamphlet series.
Interviewers: Vincent Harding, SudarshanKapur.
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Abstract: By 1924 to 1928 jazz is everywhere in America and spreadingabroad. For the first time, soloists and singers take center stage,transforming the music with their distinctive voices. This episode traces thecareers of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Sidney Bechet, BessieSmith, Earl Hines, Ethel Waters, Bix Beiderbecke, the first great white jazzartist and Benny Goodman, the son of Jewish immigrants.
Notes: Episode three, Our language A production of Florentine Filmsand WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns.
Jazz,
Our language.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Jon Hendricks, Wynton Marsalis,Artie Shaw, Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Margo Jefferson, Gary Giddins, DocCheatham, James Lincoln Collier, Studs Terkel, Richard Sudhalter, John Sanders.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Abstract: In the 1960s jazz fragments into the avant-garde and manydivided schools of thought. Many jazz musicians like Dexter Gordon are forcedto leave America in search of work while other use the music as a form ofsocial protest: Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and Archie Shepp make overtlypolitical musical statements. John Coltrane appeals to a broad audience beforehis untimely death. Saxophonist Stan Getz helps boost a craze for bossa novamusic, but in the early 1970s jazz founders Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellingtonpass away. Miles Davis leads a movement of jazz musicians who incorporateelements of rock and soul into their music and "fusion" winslisteners. By the mid-1980's jazz begins to bounce back led by Wynton Marsalisand a new generation of musicians. Now as it approaches its centennial, jazz isstill alive, still changing and still swinging.
Notes: Episode ten, A masterpiece by midnight A production ofFlorentine Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film byKen Burns.
Jazz,
Masterpiece by midnight.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Wynton Marsalis, Lester Bowie,Joshua Redman, Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Hancock, Matt Glaser, Branford Marsalis,Wynton Marsalis, Arvell Shaw, Gerald Early, Gary Giddins, Stanley Crouch,Phoebe Jacobs, Michael Cuscuna, Joe Lovano, Mercedes Ellington, John Sanders,George Wein, Jackie McLean, Nat Hentoff.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Abstract: In the 1960s jazz fragments into the avant-garde and manydivided schools of thought. Many jazz musicians like Dexter Gordon are forcedto leave America in search of work while other use the music as a form ofsocial protest: Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and Archie Shepp make overtlypolitical musical statements. John Coltrane appeals to a broad audience beforehis untimely death. Saxophonist Stan Getz helps boost a craze for bossa novamusic, but in the early 1970s jazz founders Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellingtonpass away. Miles Davis leads a movement of jazz musicians who incorporateelements of rock and soul into their music and "fusion" winslisteners. By the mid-1980's jazz begins to bounce back led by Wynton Marsalisand a new generation of musicians. Now as it approaches its centennial, jazz isstill alive, still changing and still swinging.
Notes: Episode ten, A masterpiece by midnight A production ofFlorentine Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film byKen Burns.
Jazz,
Masterpiece by midnight.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Wynton Marsalis, Lester Bowie,Joshua Redman, Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Hancock, Matt Glaser, Branford Marsalis,Wynton Marsalis, Arvell Shaw, Gerald Early, Gary Giddins, Stanley Crouch,Phoebe Jacobs, Michael Cuscuna, Joe Lovano, Mercedes Ellington, John Sanders,George Wein, Jackie McLean, Nat Hentoff.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Abstract: Between 1955 and 1960 rhythm and blues and rock ' roll erodejazz' audiences but the music still enjoys tremendous creativity. SaxophonistSonny Rollins and trumpeter Clifford Brown make their marks while DukeEllington emerges stronger than ever and Miles Davis and John Coltrane makelegendary albums. Louis Armstrong jeopardizes his career when he condemns thegovernment for its failure to act on racism in Little Rock, Ark. Drummer ArtBlakely and others attempt to win back R&B audiences to jazz. As stars suchas Billie Holiday fade out, others such as Sarah Vaughan burn brightly and newcomerssuch as Ornette Coleman begin to push the music into uncharted territories.
Notes: Episode nine, The adventure A production of Florentine Filmsand WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns.
Jazz,
Adventure.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Wynton Marsalis, Ossie Davis,Matt Glaser, Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Gary Giddins, George Wein, JackieMcLean, Nat Hentoff, Michael Cuscuna.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Abstract: From 1917 through 1924 the "Jazz Age" begins withspeakeasies, flappers and easy money for some. The story of jazz becomes a taleof two cities, Chicago and New York and of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington,whose lives and music will span three-quarters of a century. This episode alsofollows the careers of jazz greats James Reese Europe, King Oliver, WillieSmith, Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman and James P. Johnson.
Notes: Episode two, The gift A production of Florentine Films andWETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns.
Jazz,
Gift.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Matt Glaser, Wynton Marsalis,Arvell Shaw, Joya Sherrill, Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Margo Jefferson,James Maher, Gary Giddins, Phoebe Jacobs, Mercedes Ellington, James LincolnCollier, Studs Terkel, Milt Hinton, Benny Waters.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 105 min.)
Abstract: In the late 1930s, as the Great Depression deepens, jazz thrives.The saxophone emerges as an iconic instrument of the music; this segmentintroduces two of its masters, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Young migratesto Kansas City, where a vibrant music scene is prospering with musicians suchas trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and drummers Jo Jones and ChickWebb. Out of this ferment emerges pianist Count Basie, who forms a band thatepitomizes the Kansas City sound. Billie Holiday cuts recordings while otherwomen musicians, including pianist Mary Lou Williams and singer Ella Fitzgeraldemerge on the jazz scene. Benny Goodman holds the first-ever jazz concert atCarnegie Hall while Duke Ellington tours Europe.
Notes: Episode six, Swing, the velocity of celebration A productionof Florentine Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a filmby Ken Burns.
Jazz,
Swing :
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Ossie Davis, Jon Hendricks,Wynton Marsalis, Artie Shaw, Albert Murray, Gerald Early, James Maher, GaryGiddins, Phoebe Jacobs, Phil Schaap, James Lincoln Collier, Norma Miller, JimmyRowles.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Abstract: When America enters WWII in 1941, swing becomes a symbol ofdemocracy and entertainers like Dave Brubeck, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw taketheir music to the armed forces overseas. In Nazi-occupied Europe, gypsyguitarist Django Reinhardt blends jazz with his own musical traditions. In NewYork Billie Holiday is unofficial queen despite a growing addiction tonarcotics. Duke Ellington, assisted by the gifted young arranger, BillyStrayhorn, brings his music to ever-greater heights. After dark a smallunderground of gifted young musicians led by the trumpet virtuoso DizzyGillespie and saxophonists Charlie Parker and Ben Webster begin to develop anew fast and intricate way of playing, developing a new music called bebop.Meanwhile in 1945, black soldiers return home to the same racism they foughtagainst, and a growing unrest sets the seeds for future rebellions.
Notes: Episode seven, Dedicated to chaos A production of FlorentineFilms and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns.
Jazz,
Dedicated to chaos.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Wynton Marsalis, Arvell Shaw,Joya Sherrill, Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddins, Mercedes Ellington,Milt Hinton, John Sanders, Stan Levy, Jimmy Rowles.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)
Abstract: Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emergingfrom several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs,spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues.Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly RollMorton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original DixielandJazz Band.
Notes: Episode one, Gumbo A production of Florentine Films andWETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns.
Jazz,
Gumbo.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Ossie Davis, Branford Marsalis,Wynton Marsalis, Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Gary Giddins,Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Doc Cheatham.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Abstract: Between 1945 and 1955 jazz splinters into different camps:cool and hot, East and West, traditional and modern. One by one, the big bandsleave the road, but Duke Ellington keeps his band together, while LouisArmstrong puts together a small group, the "All-Stars." PromoterNorman Granz insists on equal treatment for every member of his integratedtroupes on his Jazz at the Philharmonic Tours. Meanwhile, bebop musicians DizzyGillespie and Charlie Parker are creating some of the most inventive jazz everplayed but a devastating narcotics plague sweeps through the jazz community,ruining lives and changing the dynamics of performance. And a number of greatperformers including Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, TheloniousMonk, Paul Desmond, Bille Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and John Lewis find newways to bring new audiences to jazz.
Notes: Episode eight, Risk A production of Florentine Films andWETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns.
Jazz,
Risk.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Wynton Marsalis, Ossie Davis,Jon Hendricks, Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Gary Giddins, Phil Schaap, StanLevy, Harry Edison, Jackie McLean, Nat Hentoff, Bertrand Travernier.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by Geoffrey C.Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken; David, Keith; Ward, Geoffrey C.; Marsalis,Wynton; Murray, Albert; Maher, James T.; Giddins, Gary; Collier, James Lincoln;Hinton, Milt; Brubeck, Dave; Hampton, Lionel; Levy, Stan; Edison, Harry;Rowles, Jimmie; Florentine Films.; WETA-TV (Television station : WashingtonD.C.); PBS Home Video.
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Abstract: In the mid 1930s, as the Great Depression refuses to lift,Benny Goodman finds himself hailed as the "King of Swing" and becomesthe first white bandleader to hire black musicians. He has a host or rivalsamong them, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Glen Miller and ArtieShaw. Louis Armstrong heads a big band of his own, while Duke Ellingtoncontinues his independent course, but great black artists still can't eat or sleepin many of the hotels where they perform. Billie Holiday emerges from achildhood of tragedy to begin her career as the greatest of all female jazzsingers.
Notes: Episode four, The true welcome A production of FlorentineFilms and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns.
Jazz,
True welcome.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Wynton Marsalis, Artie Shaw,Joya Sherrill, Albert Murray, Margo Jefferson, James Maher, Gary Giddins, JamesLincoln Collier, Milt Hinton, John Sanders, Dave Brubeck, Harry Edison, JimmyRowles, Lionel Hampton, Helen Oakley Dance, Stan Levy.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)
Abstract: In the mid 1930s, as the Great Depression refuses to lift,Benny Goodman finds himself hailed as the "King of Swing" and becomesthe first white bandleader to hire black musicians. He has a host or rivalsamong them, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Glen Miller and ArtieShaw. Louis Armstrong heads a big band of his own, while Duke Ellingtoncontinues his independent course, but great black artists still can't eat orsleep in many of the hotels where they perform. Billie Holiday emerges from achildhood of tragedy to begin her career as the greatest of all female jazzsingers.
Notes: Episode five, Swing, pure pleasure A production ofFlorentine Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film byKen Burns.
Jazz,
Swing :
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Wynton Marsalis, Artie Shaw, JoyaSherrill, Albert Murray, Margo Jefferson, James Maher, Gary Giddins, JamesLincoln Collier, Milt Hinton, John Sanders, Dave Brubeck, Harry Edison, JimmyRowles, Lionel Hampton, Helen Oakley Dance, Stan Levy.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by Geoffrey C.Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: Jazz
Author: Burns, Ken
Year: 2000
City: [United States]
Publisher: PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)
Abstract: Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the centuryemerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, worksongs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues.Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly RollMorton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original DixielandJazz Band.
Notes: Episode one, Gumbo A production of Florentine Films andWETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns.
Jazz,
Gumbo.
Cataloged from packaging.
Commentary: Ossie Davis, Branford Marsalis,Wynton Marsalis, Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Gary Giddins,Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Doc Cheatham.
Directed by Ken Burns; written by GeoffreyC. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Title: John Edgar Wideman
Author: Wideman, John Edgar
Year: 1993
City: Los Angeles, CA
Publisher: The Foundation
Type: 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Notes: the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs.
Lannan literary series ; no. 33.
Vhs.
"John Edgar Wideman is one ofAmerica's premier fiction writers. With language full of sinew and music, hewrites about the evolving role of the black man in today's society, chroniclingthe often brutal and enraging experiences of African Americans who arestruggling to survive. He read from The Stories of John Edgar Wideman and workin progress in Los Angeles on April 6, 1993, and talked with MichaelSilverblatt"--Container.
Title: John Henrik Clarke a great and mighty walk
Author: Clarke, John Henrik
Year: 1996
City: [S.l.]
[New York
Publisher: Black Dot Media ;
Distributed by Cinema Guild]
Type: 1 videocassette (95 min.)
Abstract: John Henrik Clarke discusses the history of Afro-Americans,placing it within the context of the history of Africa and Africans and theirrelationship with non-African civilizations such as Greek, Roman, European,Christian, and Islamic.
Notes: director, St. Clair Bourne ; producer, Kimiko Jackson ;writer, Lou Potter.
Great and mighty walk.
John Henrik Clarke ; narrator, WesleySnipes.
Executive producer, Wesley Snipes ; editor,Chris Fiore.
Title: Jubilee Singers sacrifice and glory
Author: Smith, Liewellyn
Year: 2000
City: [Alexandria, Va.]
Publisher: PBS Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (56 min.)
Abstract: "With stunning recreations of their historicperformances and a rich spiritual score, Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory drawson letters and diaries to bring to life these ex-slaves' fundraising tours.Dressed in rags, they first met with racial hostility. But eventually theirbeautiful voices and powerful songs moved audiences from New York toBerlin"--Container.
Notes: WGBH Boston ; WGBH Educational Foundation.
Host: David McCullough.
Producer/director, Liewellyn Smith ;writers, Liewellyn Smith and Andrew Ward ; editor, Jean Boucicaut.
Originally broadcast as a segment of thetelevision series: The American experience.
American experience (Television program)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/singers/filmmore/index.html
Title: Judgement day
Author: Bagwell, Orlando
Year: 1998
City: Boston, MA
[Alexandria, VA]
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation ;
PBS Video [distributor]
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)
Abstract: A four part series portraying the struggles of the Africanpeople in America, from their arrival in the 1600s to the last days before theCivil War. In this final episode, as the nation expands westward slaverybecomes the most divisive issue in American life. Abolitionists struggle tobring the institution down and the nation is tested as never before. Whentensions over slavery erupt into violence, Americans are forced to consider howlong the country can continue as a democracy built on the profits of bondage.
Notes: produced by WGBH Boston ; produced and directed by OrlandoBagwell, Susan Bellows.
Africans in America: America's journeythrough slavery.
America's journey through slavery.
Africans in America ; 4.
Originally broadcast on PBS October 22,1998.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Writer, Steve Fayer ; associate producer,Patricia Garcia Rios ; editor, Charles Scott ; music score, Bernice JohnsonReagon ; director of photography, Michael Chin.
Narrator: Angela Bassett.
Title: The leaders
Author: Comer, James P.
Year: 1991
City: Chicago, Il.
McLean, Va.
Publisher: Johnson Publishing Company Inc. ;
Conrad and Associates
Type: 1 videocassette (35 min.)
Abstract: Program discusses how black leaders attained their goals.Features James P. Comer, Marian Wright Edelman, Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
Notes: Johnson/Conrad Productions.
Ebony/Jet guide to black excellence.
Produced in association with Coca Cola,Sprint, Xerox, Saturn, and the Prudential Insurance Co.
Title: Lift every voice and sing: a celebration of the NegroNational Anthem
Author: Bond, Julian
Year: 2001
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: National Cable Satellite Corp.; C-Span Archives
Type: 1 videocassette (43 min.)
Notes: Mr. Bond talked about the book Life Every Voice and Sign: ACelebration of the Negro National Anthem, 100 Years, 100 Voices, published byRandom House, which he co-edited with Sondra Kathryn Wilson. One hundred years ago, James Weldon Johnsonand his brother J. Rosamond Johnson wrote the song "Lift Every Voice andSing" in celebration of Lincoln's Brithday. Later this song became recognized as the Negro National Anthem. The book includes one hundred essays on thesong written by writers, performers, and politicians. Mr. Bond read essays, talked about the song and its writers,performers, and politicians. Mr. Bondread essays, talked about the song and its writers, and answered questions fromthe audience. The Black Voices of theUniversity of Virginia Choir started the event by singing "Lift EveryVoice and Sing." Aired February13, 2001
Title: Lockin' up
Author: Atkinson, Nicole; Nyame na oye Productions.; Women MakeMovies (Firm)
Year: 1997
City: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: Women Make Movies [distributor]
Type: 1 videocassette (29 min.)
Abstract: "When Jamaican-born filmmaker T. Nicole Atkinson threw awayher comb to let her hair coil into dreadlocks, she was forced to challenge bothsociety's and her own conflicted notions of beauty. ... Anecdotes, historicaldata, griot performances, and hair tips mingle in a survey of the origins andcultural significance of dreadlocks, including the stereotypes which mirror theracism inherent in Western standards of beauty."
Notes: Nyame na oye Productions ; a story by T. Nicole Atkinson ;produced, directed and edited by T. Nicole Atkinson.
Narrator, T. Nicole Atkinson.
Original music composed, arranged andperformed by Pope Flyne.
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c447.htm
Title: The long walk of Nelson Mandela
Author: Bestall, Clifford; Fanning, David; Carlin, John; Lyman,Will; Story Street Production.; Unipix Entertainment Inc.; Films2People.; PBSHome Video.; WGBH Video (Firm)
Year: 1999
City: [Alexandria, Va.?]
Publisher: PBS Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (120 min.)
Abstract: This film biography of Mandela tells the story of his lifetrough interviews with intimates, from his most trusted associates to hisjailers on Robben Island, the prison where he was held for 27 years. This filmoffers an insider's account of his extraordinary will to lead and of the greatrisk and personal sacrifice he endured to achieve democracy and equality forthe people of his nation.
Notes: co-produced by Story Street Production and Films2People forUnaPix Entertainment, Inc. and WGBH/FRONTLINE.
Nelson Mandela.
Narrator: Will Lyman ; writer andinterviewer: John Carlin.
Director: Clifford Bestall ; producer:David Fanning.
URL: http://shop.wgbh.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=13120&storeId=11051&catalogId=10051&langId=-1
Title: The long walk of Nelson Mandela
Author: Bestall, Clifford; Fanning, David; Carlin, John; Lyman,Will; Story Street Production.; Unipix Entertainment Inc.; Films2People.; PBSHome Video.; WGBH Video (Firm)
Year: 1999
City: [Alexandria, Va.?]
Publisher: PBS Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (120 min.)
Abstract: This film biography of Mandela tells the story of his life troughinterviews with intimates, from his most trusted associates to his jailers onRobben Island, the prison where he was held for 27 years. This film offers aninsider's account of his extraordinary will to lead and of the great risk andpersonal sacrifice he endured to achieve democracy and equality for the peopleof his nation.
Notes: co-produced by Story Street Production and Films2People forUnaPix Entertainment, Inc. and WGBH/FRONTLINE.
Nelson Mandela.
Narrator: Will Lyman ; writer andinterviewer: John Carlin.
Director: Clifford Bestall ; producer:David Fanning.
URL: http://shop.wgbh.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=13120&storeId=11051&catalogId=10051&langId=-1
Title: Lullaby of Harlem
Author: Britt, Pat
Year: 1998
City: Hollywood, CA
Publisher: Passport International Productions
Type: 1 videocassette (50 min.)
Abstract: Features live performances of legendary Jazz musiciansduring the Golden Age of Harlem.
Notes: Passport International Productions, Inc. ; produced by PatBritt.
A magical musical trip through the streetsof New York City.
Subtitle on container: A magical musicaltrip through the streets of New York City.
Editor, Kirk Demorest ; original thememusic, Patt Britt.
Narrated by Spike Harrigan ; Featuring:Count Basie, Nat 'King' Cole, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday,Dizzy Gillespie, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Billy Eckstine, The Mills Brothers, CabCalloway, Fats Waller, Louis Jordan & The Tympani 5.
URL: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/LullabyofHarlem-1098044/about.php
Title: The maids: a documentary/
Author: Jackson, Muriel.
Year: 1985
City: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: Women Make Movies.
Type: 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Abstract: Documentary on the history of domestic work, especially byblack women, in the United States since slavery, utilizing still photographsand interviews.
Notes: Participants: Narrator: Monica Kaufman.
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c293.htm
Title: Marcus Garvey look for me in the whirlwind
Author: Garvey, Marcus; Nelson, Stanley; Smith, Marcia; Lumbly,Carl; PBS Video.
Year: 2001
City: Burbank, Calif.
Publisher: [Distributed by] Warner Home Video ; PBS Video
Type: 1 videodisc (90 min.)
Abstract: Uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents touncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 builtthe largest black mass movement in world history. Also features interviews withpeople who wittnessed the Garvey movement first hand.
Notes: produced and directed by Stanley Nelson ; written by MarciaSmith ; a Firelight/Half Nelson Productions film for American Experience ; WGBHBoston.
Look for me in the whirlwind.
PBS DVD gold.
Narrator, Carl Lumbly.
Principal cinematography, Robert Shepard,Arthur Jafa Fielder ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; original music, Kysia Bostic andJ.J. McGeehan.
DVD bonus features include interviews withdirector Stanley Nelson and editor Lewis Erskine; exclusive footage notincluded in the program; News articles from the Negro World; Audio recordingsof Marcus Garvey speeches; video glossary of key terms from a panel of Garveyexperts.
Originally broadcast on PBS as a segment ofThe American Experience.
American experience (Television program)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/filmmore/index.html
Title: Marcus Garvey look for me in the whirlwind
Author: Garvey, Marcus; Nelson, Stanley; Smith, Marcia; Lumbly,Carl; PBS Video.
Year: 2001
City: Burbank, Calif.
Publisher: [Distributed by] Warner Home Video ; PBS Video
Type: 1 videodisc (90 min.)
Abstract: Uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents touncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 builtthe largest black mass movement in world history. Also features interviews withpeople who wittnessed the Garvey movement first hand.
Notes: produced and directed by Stanley Nelson ; written by MarciaSmith ; a Firelight/Half Nelson Productions film for American Experience ; WGBHBoston.
Look for me in the whirlwind.
PBS DVD gold.
Narrator, Carl Lumbly.
Principal cinematography, Robert Shepard,Arthur Jafa Fielder ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; original music, Kysia Bostic andJ.J. McGeehan.
DVD bonus features include interviews withdirector Stanley Nelson and editor Lewis Erskine; exclusive footage notincluded in the program; News articles from the Negro World; Audio recordingsof Marcus Garvey speeches; video glossary of key terms from a panel of Garveyexperts.
Originally broadcast on PBS as a segment ofThe American Experience.
American experience (Television program)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/filmmore/index.html
Title: Marcus Garvey look for me in the whirlwind
Author: Garvey, Marcus; Nelson, Stanley; Smith, Marcia; Lumbly,Carl; PBS Video.
Year: 2001
City: Burbank, Calif.
Publisher: [Distributed by] Warner Home Video ; PBS Video
Type: 1 videodisc (90 min.)
Abstract: Uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents touncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 builtthe largest black mass movement in world history. Also features interviews withpeople who wittnessed the Garvey movement first hand.
Notes: produced and directed by Stanley Nelson ; written by MarciaSmith ; a Firelight/Half Nelson Productions film for American Experience ; WGBHBoston.
Look for me in the whirlwind.
PBS DVD gold.
Narrator, Carl Lumbly.
Principal cinematography, Robert Shepard,Arthur Jafa Fielder ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; original music, Kysia Bostic andJ.J. McGeehan.
DVD bonus features include interviews withdirector Stanley Nelson and editor Lewis Erskine; exclusive footage notincluded in the program; News articles from the Negro World; Audio recordingsof Marcus Garvey speeches; video glossary of key terms from a panel of Garveyexperts.
Originally broadcast on PBS as a segment ofThe American Experience.
American experience (Television program)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/filmmore/index.html
Title: Millions for Reparations March
Author: Conyers, John Jr.
Year: 2002
City: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: C-SPAN; National Cable Satellite Corporation
4 videocassettes (322 min.)
Abstract: Participants held a rally on the National Mall to call forreparations for slavery in the U.S. Speakers talked about the state of racism in the U.S., and the need toredress wrongs of the past. Between some of the speeches various groups andperformers entertained the crowd.
URL: http://www.c-spanstore.com/172087.html
Title: Minister Louis Farrakhan Interviewed on Phil Donahue
Author: Donahue, Phil; Farrakhan, Louis
Year: 2002
City: New York, NY
Publisher: MSNBC
Type: 1 videocassette (45 min.)
Abstract: Minister Farrakhan discusses his peace mission to the MiddleEast, where he meet with representatives of Saddam Hussein's government. Healso expresses his views regarding the Palestinian and Israeli conflict,reparations for African Americans, the disproportionate numbers of minoritesthat are unemployed or imprisoned, and how his stance on issues related to raceand politics have been misconstrued by the media.
Title: The Murder of Emmett Till
Author: Nelson, Stanley; Smith, Marcia; Phillips, Tom; PBS HomeVideo.; WGBH Educational Foundation.; Firelight Films (Firm)
Year: 2003
City: Alexandria, Va.
Publisher: PBS Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
Abstract: The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a blackboy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was apowerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers wereapprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury andproceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of themurder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery BusBoycott began.
Notes: a Firelight Media Production for American Experience ; aproduction of WGBH, Boston.
"Major funding for this programprovided by the Ford Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Hugh HefnerFoundation"--Container.
Produced and directed by Stanley Nelson ;written by Marcia Smith ; edited by Lewis Erskine ; coordinating producer,Laurens Grant ; assistance producer, Amilca Palmer ; composer, Tom Phillips ;sound supervisor, Rena C. Kosersky ; cinematographer, Robert Shepard.
Narrator, Andre Braugher.
Originally broadcast as part of thetelevision series The American experience.
American experience (Television program)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/filmmore/index.html
Title: The Murder of Emmett Till
Author: Nelson, Stanley; Smith, Marcia; Phillips, Tom; PBS HomeVideo.; WGBH Educational Foundation.; Firelight Films (Firm)
Year: 2003
City: Alexandria, Va.
Publisher: PBS Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
Abstract: The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, ablack boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955,was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killerswere apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male juryand proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details ofthe murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery BusBoycott began.
Notes: a Firelight Media Production for American Experience ; aproduction of WGBH, Boston.
"Major funding for this program providedby the Ford Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Hugh HefnerFoundation"--Container.
Produced and directed by Stanley Nelson ;written by Marcia Smith ; edited by Lewis Erskine ; coordinating producer,Laurens Grant ; assistance producer, Amilca Palmer ; composer, Tom Phillips ;sound supervisor, Rena C. Kosersky ; cinematographer, Robert Shepard.
Narrator, Andre Braugher.
Originally broadcast as part of thetelevision series The American experience.
American experience (Television program)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/filmmore/index.html
Title: Nightfighters
Year: 1996
City: Santa Monica, CA
Publisher: Distributed by Xenon Entertainment Group
Type: 1 videocassette (52 min.)
Abstract: The 332nd Fighter group has a unique place in the annals ofWWII air force fighter groups. The group was completely Black. It confoundedthe expectations and prejudices held by white Americans in the 1930's and1940's. The group excelled as pilots and became a crack unit, accomplishinggoals others couldn't. Included are interviews with Alfred Anderson, LeeArcher, and Roscoe Brown.
Notes: a Fulmar Production.
Narrated by Arthur Burghardt.
Written and produced by Jeremy Bugler ;directed by Madonna Benjamin.
Title: Nonviolence: The Building Blocks of Character
Author: King, Yolanda
Year: 1986
City: Atlanta
Publisher: Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change,Inc.
1 videocassette (9 min.)
Abstract: Yolanda King briefly discusses the legacy of her father (Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.) and his work to establish peace and harmony between thevarious racial and ethnic groups in the United States of America, during the1950s and 60s. She goes on to discuss the building blocks for obtaining a goodcharacter which include: nonviolence, honesty, forgiveness, humility, courage,patience, caring and cooperation.
Title: Path to leadership
Year: 2000
Publisher: National Cable Satellite Corporation
Abstract: Jane Smith, President and CEO, National Council of NegroWomen and Rebecca Pittman-Evans, former Chief of Staff, Washington, DC, Mayor'sOffice, talked about their rise to leadership positions and about women'sleadership roles. After their commentsthey answered questions from the audience. Orginally aired on C-Span, June 2, 1999.
Title: Paule Marshall
Author: Marshall, Paule
Year: 1994
City: Los Angeles, CA
Publisher: The Foundation
Type: 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Notes: the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs.
Lannan literary series ; no. 39.
"Paule Marshall, born and raised inBrooklyn, New York, has said that the source of her art is the expressive talkshe heard as a girl among the West Indian women in her mother's kitchen. Ms.Marshall, who has received a MacArthur Fellowship, has written four novels andtwo collections of stories. On April 12, 1994, she read from Daughters andtalked with Michael Silverblatt in Los Angeles"--Container.
Title: Perspective on James Baldwin
Author: hooks, bell
Year: 2002
City: Washinton, D. C.
Publisher: C-SPAN; National Cable Satellite Corporation
1 videocassette (27 min.)
Abstract: In an excerpt from an In Depth program, Professor hookstalked specifically about the writings of James Baldwin and his influence onher and others.
Title: A Place of rage
Author: Trinh, T. Minh-Ha; Jordan, June; Davis, Angela Yvonne;Walker, Alice; Parmar, Pratibha; Women Make Movies (Firm); Channel Four (GreatBritain)
Year: 1991
City: New York, NY
Publisher: Women Make Movies
Type: 1 videocassette (52 min.)
Abstract: Prominent black women comment upon experiences ofAfro-American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon theAmerican culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future.Includes historical footage of civil rights movement in the 1960's.
Notes: Channel Four Television.
Producer/director, Pratibha Parmar ;executive producer, Debra Hauer ; editor, Anna Liebschner.
June Jordan (poet), Angela Davis (politicalactivist), Alice Walker (writer), Trinh T. Minh-Ha (writer/film maker).
URL: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c287.htm
Title: The politics of love in black and white
Author: Burley, Ed
Year: 1993
City: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 1 videocassette (33 min.)
Abstract: A documentary of the issue of interracial romance onAmerica's campuses, this film features interviews with mixed couples whodiscuss the joys and challenges of their relationships, and with studentsopposed to interracial dating who argue its political implications for racerelations. In the process, the film reveals unspoken community norms andsubmerged racial attitudes.
Notes: Mountaintop Productions ; producer, Ed Burley ; directed byEd Burley and Chris Weck.
Politics of love in black and white.
Interviewer/narration, Ed Burley.
Camera/lighting/audio, Chris Weck ;editors, Nine Lambiase, Jack Sherman ; music written and performed by AndreWard.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/politics.htm
Title: Prime time South Africa
Year: 1996
City: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: California Newsreel
Type: 1 videocassette (108 min.)
Abstract: Consists of six segments from South African BroadcastingCorporation television programming. The segments were chosen to demonstrate thevariety of ways the media is portraying South Africa's new, post-apartheidsociety. Segments include commercials and excerpts from programs entitled SoulCity, Local voter, Rhythm and rights, Generations, and Going up.
Notes: Distributed by Modern Educational Video Network.
Roberta Durrant and Joe Mafela, producers;Nebojs Petrovic, editor; Roberta Durrant, director.
Library of African cinema.
Library of African cinema (Videorecording)
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/films/primetim.htm
Title: A Raisin in the sun
Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
Year: 1997
City: Culver City, Cal.
Publisher: Columbia Tristar Home Video
Type: 1 videocassette (128 min.)
Abstract: Film of the award-winning play about a struggling blackfamily living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurancebequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreamsand of escape from grinding frustrations.
Notes: Columbia Pictures Corporation ; produced by David Susskind,Philip Rose ; directed by Daniel Petrie ; screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry.
Videorecording of the motion picturereleased in 1961.
Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.
Music: Laurence Rosenthal ; director ofphotography: Charles Lawton, Jr. ; art director: Carl Anderson ; film editor:William A. Lyon, Paul Weatherwax.
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, RubyDee.
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003L9CK/immaculateintern/104-6275817-6003924
Title: Revolution
Author: Bagwell, Orlando; Bellows, Susan; Fayer, Steve; Bassett,Angela; Reagon, Bernice Johnson; WGBH (Television station : Boston Mass.); WGBHEducational Foundation.; PBS Video.
Year: 1998
City: Boston, MA
[Alexandria, VA]
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation ;
PBS Video [distributor]
Type: 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)
Abstract: A four part series portraying the struggles of the Africanpeople in America, from their arrival in the 1600s to the last days before theCivil War. In this second episode, while the American colonies challengeBritain for independence, American slavery is challenged from within as men andwomen fight to define what America will be. When the War of Independence iswon, black people, both enslaved and free, seize on the language of freedomeven while the new nation's Constitution codifies slavery and oppression as anational way of life.
Notes: produced by WGBH Boston ; produced and directed by OrlandoBagwell, Susan Bellows.
Africans in America: America's journeythrough slavery.
America's journey through slavery.
Africans in America ; 2.
Originally broadcast on PBS October 20,1998.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Writer, Steve Fayer ; associate producer,Patricia Garcia Rios ; editor, Charles Scott ; music score, Bernice Johnson Reagon; director of photography, Michael Chin.
Narrator: Angela Bassett.
Title: Rhythm of resistance the Black music of South Africa
Author: Austin, C.
Year: 1988
City: [Newton, NJ]
Publisher: Shanachie Records
Type: 1 videocassette
Abstract: Takes you across the forbidden boundaries of apartheid toexperience the authentic joy and sorrow of Black South African music. Featuresmusic that has been ignored, suppressed of ghettoized, some filmedclandestinely.
Notes: a Harcourt Films Production ; producer, Jeremy Marre ;directors, Chris Austin and Jeremy Marre.
Beats of the heart (Series)
Title on container: Rythm of resistance,Black South African music.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Malombo, JohnnyClegg/Sipho Mchunu of Juluka, The Mahotella Queens, Abafana Baseqhudeni.
Originally produced by Harcourt Films,c1979.
Still photos from Magubane's "SouthAfrica" International Defense and Air Fund.
VHS format.
"1204."
Black South African music.
Rhythm of resistance, Black South Africanmusic.
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004YA70/ref=pd_sxp_f/104-6275817-6003924?v=glance&s=dvd