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| - AT PRICES YOU CAN AFFORDCalifornia Newsreel is speeding the migration of library video collections to powerful new digital platforms by making available more than 60 award-winning titles (listed below) at special “collection development” prices – up to 50% OFF. For more details on Newsreels unique Local Streaming Licenses, special discount offers and ordering information click hereAmong the titles in California Newsreel Digital collection, are all seven films by pioneering black documentarian, Marlon Riggs whose works are being licensed for local streaming for the first time. For further information see Marlon Riggs: The Complete Edition |
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COLOR ADJUSTMENT
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Referral and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 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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ETHNIC NOTIONS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Referral and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 1987 |
| 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... |
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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
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| 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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FOR MY PEOPLE: THE LIFE AND WRITING OF MARGARET WALKER
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 28 minutes, 1998,  |
| 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... |
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FURIOUS FLOWER II
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Three-Year Site/Local Streaming - files provided and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 3 Episodes, 180 minutes total, 2005,
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| Provides a teaching tool for exploring the world of today's Black poetry. A follow-up to the 1994 Furious Flower conference, Furious Flower II presents outstanding critical scholarship on Black contemporary poetry's origins and trends, its conflicts and consonances. MORE... |
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HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 57 minutes, 2009, |
| A compelling examination of the career of Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored, The Myth of the Negro Past. MORE... |
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HOMEGOINGS
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 2013, English Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired
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| Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community; borne out of their permanence, their economic stability, and the necessities of the segregation period. It film paints a portrait of the dearly departed, their grieving families and a man who sends loved ones "home." MORE... |
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HOXIE: THE FIRST STAND
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 2003, |
| Documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas. MORE... |
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HUGHES' DREAM HARLEM
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 61 minutes, 2002 |
| This cine-poetic experience celebrates the spirit and work of Harlem's poet laureate Langston Hughes. Contemporary writers, slam poets and arts supporters star. MORE... |
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IN BLACK AND WHITE - SIX PROFILES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 6 authors, 157 minutes total, 1992 |
| An introduction to six distinguished African American writers - Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, John Wideman and August Wilson. MORE... |
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