Movies
- Good hairComedian Chris Rock tackles the very personal issue of hair, and how attaining good hair can impact African Americans' activities, relationships, wallets, and a self-esteem. Engages in frank, funny conversations with haircare professionals, beautyshop and barbershop patrons, as well as featuring interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou, Nia Long, Ice-T, Raven Symone, and more.
- Remember the TitansA drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony.
Streaming Videos
- Toni MorrisonWinner of numerous awards, most notably the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison made it possible for a new generation of African-American writers to have a voice in the mainstream literary dialogue. Her evocative, multi-layered tales illuminate the black experience and have the power to change how readers look at American history. In this program, Morrison explains her statement that "American literature is incoherent without the contribution of African American writers.
- Toni MorrisonMorrison reads from her two novels, "Beloved" and "Jazz" and discusses her views of the contributions made to American literature by the experiences of African Americans.
- James Baldwin : the price of the ticketJames Baldwin was at once a major 20th-century American author, a civil rights activist, and a prophetic voice calling Americans, black and white both, to confront their shared racial tragedy. This film biography of Baldwin's life captures the passion of his beliefs with stirring excerpts from his novels and striking archival footage dating from the Harlem Renaissance through to the author's commentary on civil rights to his writing retreats in Istanbul and Europe. Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and William Styron provide insight as the program skillfully links excerpts from Baldwin's major works to different historical stages in black/white dialogue.
- Maya Angelou: Poem at Clinton InauguralThis speech/address, given by Maya Angelou, is a reading of her poem at former President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration.
I am Not Your Negro
Available at Alcuin Library - Media DVD 6885 or free on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PaAbmRJ9bQ
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- Qwest.tv This link opens in a new windowRecorded performances in jazz, soul, funk, and global music. Qwest TV hopes to be an entry point for those wanting to connect with and learn more about the wide-ranging music made by Black Americans, along with other musical artists from around the world.