The high quality video resources in this collection are, themselves, testimony to the richness, diversity, dynamism and universality of the African American experience. They provide valuable historical, cultural, political and sociological chronicles about the people and events that have shaped America from slavery to present day. This comprehensive perspective provides a powerful context to understand current issues of race and prejudice.
Download a PDF of our latest African American Perspectives print catalog here.
Brick by Brick Tracks the landmark case, U.S. vs Yonkers, which challenged housing and educational discrimination in the North and pushed for desegregation. MORE...
DVD, 83 minutes, 2002, Facilitator Guide Available
Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. Bayard Rustin's activism for peace, racial equality, economic justice and human rights, and how he navigated through his life and career as an openly gay man are the themes of this portrait. MORE...
Marlon Riggs' study of how network television absorbed deep-seated racial conflict into the non-threatening formats of primetime television. Clips from Amos 'n' Andy, Good Times, Roots and The Cosby Show among others are intercut with interviews with producers, cultural critics and actors. MORE...
Scholars shed light on the origins and consequences of anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the Antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. MORE...
New Orleans' unique Faubourg Treme is arguably the oldest African American neighborhood in the United States. It is the home of jazz and also the birthplace of civil rights in the South. MORE...
DVD, 61 minutes, 2004, closed captioned on VHS only Facilitator Guide Available
In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. February One tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example for student militancy of the coming decade. MORE...
A literary biography of a seminal figure of 20th century American literature, Margaret Walker, who established one of the first Black Studies centers in the nation, and mentored the Black Arts movement of the 1960s. MORE...
DVD and 35mm, 52 minutes, United Kingdom, 1996, in English and French with English subtitles
Dramatization and documentary trace Fanon's intellectual development. Cultural critics position his pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on the colonized and colonizer alike. MORE...
This documentary reconstructs the story of the Mississippi freedom movement of the early 1960s and the voter registration drives, which led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. MORE...
DVD, 3 Episodes, approx. 60 min. each on 1 DVD or 3 VHS, 2005, Closed Captioned on DVD only Facilitator Guide Available
Provides the definitive teaching tool for exploring the world of today's Black poetry. Surpassing the scope, ambition and accomplishments of its (1998) predecessor, Furious Flower II presents outstanding critical scholarship on Black contemporary poetry's origins and trends, its conflicts and consonances. MORE...
