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Attorney Charles Houston's 20-year campaign against segregation paves the way for
Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Genre(s): Interests;
Length: 60 min
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich makes an impassioned argument about how the
devastating effects of America's widening income inequality not only threaten the middle
class, but also the very foundation of democracy.
Genre(s): Documentary
Directory: Jacob Kornbluth
Cast: Robert Reich
Length: 90 min
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The current story begins with “Goliath”, BP plc, and the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon
explosion, which continues to bleed a community through the after effects of the oil spill,
economic fall out and questionable accountability. Encalade, his small tribe of fisher
families and a community of Louisiana small business people continue to fight through
legal channels and other means to find justice.
producer-director Nailah Jefferson
http://www.vanishingpearls.com/
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Families struggle in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Genre(s) Interests; TV14
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Up From Slavery
"If you want to lift yourself
up, lift up someone else."
-- Booker T. Washington
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -- Booker T. Washington
In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode unto a bloody civil war, there
were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four
million slaves.
The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their
creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The nation
would pay a bloody cost for denying those rights to more than twelve percent of the
population. But when slavery was first brought to America's shores, this war, and even the
nation it tore apart, was centuries in the future.
How did it come to pass that more than 10 million African men and women would be
brought against their will to the New World? How could educated, deeply religious
Europeans trade the human flesh as casually as they traded sugar and rice?
With incredibly detailed historical reenactments, expert commentary and the stories of
slavery told through first-hand accounts, this is an epic struggle 400 years in the making.
This is a journey into the past like none other. This is the story of these men and women
who by their hands laid the foundation of what would become the most powerful nation on
Earth.
Join us as we rise... UP FROM SLAVERY
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In the early 20th century, three Southern communities forcibly remove African-Americans
from the population.
Genre(s): Interests
Rating: PG
Length: 90 min
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Sankofa
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SANKOFA, an Akan word meaning "one must return to the past in order to move forward,"
is the story about the transformation of Mona, a self-possessed African-American woman
sent on a spiritual journey in time to experience the pain of slavery and the discovery of
her African identity.
A Film by Haile Gerima
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