Links

Organizations
Rethinking Schools Online Educators resource for social-justice.

Teaching for Change promotes peace, justice, and human rights nationwide through critical, anti-racist, multicultural education.

ITVS Independent Television Service Site

New York African Film Festival

Docuseek is a search site for independent documentary, social issue, and educational videos available in the U.S. and Canada. DocuSeek allows you to simultaneously search several leading film distributors' complete collections, representing the highest quality documentary and instructional media, films and videos available.

Activism
The Treatment Action Campaign - AIDS Activism in South Africa

Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA) - a progressive network of more than 200 US-Based organizations. It addresses issues of peace, human rights, social justice, environmentally and economically sustainable development, and humanitarian relief. It regularly issues action alerts.

Save Darfur - The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance assembled to raise public awareness and to mobilize efforts to help end the atrocities and reduce the suffering in Darfur and nearby refugee camps.

Genocide Intervention Fund - Aims to provide critically needed supplies to African Union peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur, increase public awareness about genocide, and pressure international governments to act on their responsibility to protect victims of genocide.

United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.

International Crisis Group - The International Crisis Group works through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict

International Rescue Committee - The IRC is a world leader in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression. 

AllAfrica Global Media - Distributing News on Africa - an electronic newspaper provider. It is the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.

Witness - Witness works with non-governmental organizations to bring us filmed rights alerts from around the globe

Sites for academic research
Understanding Sudan - A teaching and learning resource for high schools, colleges and universities.

Cineaste Magazine America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema

The Slave Trade - the Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia Slave Trade search site including information on slave life, events and issues, anti-slavery groups and campaigners, legislation and much more.

Bibliographies from UC Berkeley's Media Resource Center
African Cinema
Documentary and Ethnographic Film
Filmmaker Marlon Riggs
African Americans in the Movies

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