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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 150 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Aboliçao is a startling look at the racial situation of Black Brazilians in contemporary Brazil. The director asks the following question to Black Brazilians from diverse walks of life --musicians, politicians, activists, people in government, ambassadors, social workers, sport stars, actors, street kids, farmers, etc. -- "We are celebrating 100 years since the abolition of slavery in Brazil, what does the abolition of slavery mean to you?"
2) Palmares
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"The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil"--
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New York Times Bestseller: "A compelling argument on how a second migration back to the South could prove a way forward for Black America." —Library Journal
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black Power
Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point...
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black Power
Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point...
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 54 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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From the moment that white colonizers stepped onto the shore of Southern Africa, there was black resistance. This resistance continued unabated until apartheid was defeated. But the story of this resistance was suppressed and distorted because whites controlled the history books. This documentary was an attempt to give back to the black people of South Africa their lost history, a history of heroic struggle. Directed by: Peter Davis.
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 43 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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The play, Sizwe Bansi is dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life for his family. This film places the viewer in the discussions between Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona as they attempt to explain and re-write the play. Director: Peter Davis.
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2007
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341 p. ; 22 cm.
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In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 95 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Loving and revealing documentary about Afro-Brazilian scholar/writer/activist/politician Abdias do Nascimento (1914-2011), a significant figure in and leader of Brazil's Black movement who founded the Black Experimental Theater in 1944 and was very active in the international Pan-African Movement.
11) African Town
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[2022]
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438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings...
12) The human stain
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2004
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A respected college professor has been keeping a fifty-year secret that is about to come to light.
13) A Son of Africa
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2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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The Interesting Narration of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African was the first influential slave autobiography. It caused a sensation when published in 1789, fueling a growing anti-slavery movement in the U.S. and England. This BBC production employs dramatic reconstruction, archival material and interviews with scholars such as Stuart Hall and Ian Duffield to provide the social and economic context of the 18th century slave...
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In May 1963 news photographer Charles Moore was on hand to document the Children's Crusade, a civil rights protest. But the photographs he took that day did more than document an event; they helped change history. His photograph of a trio of African-American teenagers being slammed against a building by a blast of water from a fire hose was especially powerful. The image of this brutal treatment turned Americans into witnesses at a time when hate...
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