Black History Month

Interviews with various history professors about the African American experience throughout U.S. history.

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is an award-winning six-part Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television series written and presented by Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Hip-hop, civil rights, Black Theatre, and the list goes on of topics related to Black American history and culture.

"Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. Blacks had been cut off from voting since the turn of the century due to barriers to voter registration and other laws. ..."

Produced by the University of Washington from 2006 to 2011, this series covers the history of Black Americans in the Pacific Northwest.

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Mini documentaries on a variety of topics in Black History: Ida B. Wells, Black Suffragists, WEB Dubois's "Color Line" speech, Juneteenth, and the list goes on.

"South by Northwest was a series of public television documentaries (docudramas) on African American history in the Pacific Northwest that were produced by KWSU-TV, Washington State University, between 1975 and 1981." From the website

"Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed.

'1619,' a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, examines the long shadow of that fateful moment." From the NY Times

"Black Men In White Coats seeks to To Increase The Number of Black Men In The Field of Medicine by exposure, inspiration, and mentoring."

"What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between." From the website.

"The daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration." From the website

"Objects hold history. They're evocative of stories stamped in time. As part of The Washington Post's coverage of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture, people submitted dozens of objects that make up their own lived experiences of black history, creating a "people's museum" of personal objects, family photos and more." From the website

Tune into [their] groundbreaking podcast to hear the untold and overlooked stories of history.

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"Musings on politics, pop culture, and black gay life." From the website