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DVDs from our African American Perspectives collection are available for up to 75% OFF their original release pricing
* $99 each when you buy 1 to 4 titles.
* $49.95 each when you buy 5 or more titles.
* High schools, public libraries, HBCUs and Qualifying Community Organizations can purchase titles for $24.95.
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| African American Streaming Titles |
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ANTHEM, AFFIRMATIONS and NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN (NO REGRET)
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| DVD and Site/Local StreamingLicense with DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 9 minutes, 10 minutes and 38 minutes, 1990-1992 |
| A compilation of 3 works by pioneering filmmaker Marlon Riggs addressing issues of black gay male identity and confronting HIV/AIDS. MORE... |
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AT THE RIVER I STAND
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 56 minutes, 1993 |
| During two eventful months in 1968, what began as a local labor dispute between striking African American sanitation workers and the white power structure of Memphis grew into the devastating tragedy of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a national struggle for racial and economic justice. It marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement MORE... |
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BANISHED
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 84 minutes, 2007,  |
| From 1860 to 1920 hundreds of US counties expelled all of their African American inhabitants. Banished visits three of these still all white towns today. Meanwhile the descendants of those displaced and disinherited seek redress. MORE... |
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BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T
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DVD and Site/Local StreamingLicense with DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 87 minutes, 1995
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Marlon Riggs's final film debates Black identity, white critiques, sexism, patriarchy, homophobia, colorism and cultural nationalism. MORE... |
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BLACK PANTHER / SAN FRANCISCO STATE: ON STRIKE
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 34 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette or DVD, 1969 |
| In interviews, Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panthers, Minister of Information Eldridge Clear explains their appeal to the Black community and Chairman Bobby Seals explains their 10 Point Program. San Francisco State: On Strike recounts how a student strike succeeded in creating the first Ethnic Studies department on a college campus in America. MORE... |
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BLACK THEATER: THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 114 minutes, 1978 |
| This film documents the history of the leading figures, institutions and events that transformed the American stage in the wake of Civil Rights activism. It includes interviews with Ossie Davis, Amiri Baraka, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange, and clips from many landmark plays. MORE... |
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BLACKING UP: HIP-HOP'S REMIX OF RACE AND IDENTITY
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 57 minutes, 2010, |
| Explores tensions surrounding white participation in Hip-Hop. For some, it is an example of cultural progress. For others, it is just another case of cultural appropriation. MORE... |
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BLACKS AND JEWS
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 85 minutes, 1997
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| Scholars and critics probe the history and psychology of victimization shared between Blacks and Jews and their exploitation by the media. MORE... |
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BRICK BY BRICK: A CIVIL RIGHTS STORY
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 53 minutes, 2008
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| 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... |
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COLOR ADJUSTMENT
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| DVD and Site/Local StreamingLicense with DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 88 minutes, 1991 |
| 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... |
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