Arts
This Afro-Futuristic yarn features philosopher and Jazz pioneer Sun Ra and his Myth Science Orchestra. Summoned from Outer Space to save the Black race, this film is a meditation on slavery, cooptation and...
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.
...Writing in the socially-engaged poetic tradition of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, Ewuare X. Osayande unleashes his latest book of poems, Whose America?, that takes on the political climate...
The “Ladies First 2012" art exhibition at...
The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War. The film won the...
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.
...Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty,...
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts. Women...
Concluding our Black History look at Afro-Futurism, the Brecht Forum and the Groundfloor Collective are proud to present two experimental films.
Child of Resistance(Haile Gerima, 1972, 36 minutes...
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music,...
Verita$ critically examines Harvard’s historical role and its global impact. The film’s director describes Harvard¹s traditional character in three key words: rich, white, and male...
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