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AGENTS OF CHANGE
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 66 minutes, 2016,  Subtitled for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing
Facilitator Guide Available |
| This documentary tells the timely and inspiring story of how successful protests for equity and inclusion led to establishing the first Black and Ethnic Studies departments at two very different universities, San Francisco State (1968) and Cornell (1969). MORE... |
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AT THE RIVER I STAND
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 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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BADDDDD SONIA SANCHEZ
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 91 minutes, 2015, English SDH
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| BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez offers unprecedented access to the life, work and mesmerizing performances of renowned poet, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez who describes herself as “a woman with razor blades between my teeth.” MORE... |
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BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 118 minutes, 1990 |
| This now-famous college town came to symbolize the era that shaped a generation and forever changed this country. Interweaving footage and music from the time with insightful recollections from 15 former leading political and cultural activists this remains the outstanding examination of the late 1960s. MORE... |
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BLACK PANTHER / SAN FRANCISCO STATE: ON STRIKE
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 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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BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 83 minutes, 2002,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| On November 20, 2013, Bayard Rustin was posthumously awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Who was this man? 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. His 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... |
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FEBRUARY ONE
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 61 minutes, 2004
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... |
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JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 87 minutes, 1990 |
| Film biography of the life of James Baldwin includes excerpts from his work . Writers Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed and William Styron discuss Baldwin's influence. MORE... |
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JULY '64
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 54 minutes, 2006, |
| Summer, 1964: Violence erupted on a hot July night in Rochester, New York. July '64 tells the story of an unrest that altered the course of history in Rochester, and predicted urban unrest throughout the American North. MORE... |
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY: SIGHTED EYES/FEELING HEART
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 118 minutes, 2017, subtitled for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing |
| This is the first ever documentary on the life and work of author and activist Lorraine Hansberry whose classic play, A Raisin in the Sun influenced the representation of African Americans and changed the American theater forever. MORE... |
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