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A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom

by California Newsreel created 5 years ago 0

A biography of the labor, activist and pioneer civil rights leader who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters led the fight to desegregate the military and defense industries, and planted the seeds for the 1963 March on Washington.

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by California Newsreel created 5 years ago 0

[email protected] looks at the impact of various digital technologies across a broad swath of present-day African life and asks how the technology is affecting African culture and how it can best serve the interests of Africa and the global South. in English, French, Jula and Yoruba with English subtitles

Ainsi meurent les anges (And So Angels Die)

by California Newsreel created 5 years ago 0

An experimental narrative about a Senegalese poet confronting the crosscultural and psychological pressures of being at home neither in Europe nor in Africa. in French and Wolof with English subtitles

A Killer Bargain

by California Newsreel created 4 years ago 0

The killer bargain referred to by this documentary's title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don't reflect the human and environmental costs of their production

All About Darfur

by California Newsreel created 5 years ago 0

A Sudanese immigrant to the UK returns to her homeland to understand why the seemingly racially harmonious country of her memories has become the scene of one of the worst instances of ethnic cleansing in recent history. What she discovers is that race may be too crude a concept to understand the crisis…

Allah Tantou (God's Will)

by California Newsreel created 5 years ago 0

Old home movies, newsreels and a prison diary are interwoven to link personal and public history in this assessment of human rights abuses in Guinea-Conakry. in French with English subtitles

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

by California Newsreel created 5 years ago 0

A moving, in-depth biography of a Southern white woman organizer and journalist who for a remarkable 60 years participated in the most significant movements for racial and economic justice in this country's most conservative region - the South.

A Question of Color

by California Newsreel created 4 years ago 0

Colorism, a caste system based on skin color within the Black community, is traced and discussed.

Arlit: Deuxième Paris

by California Newsreel created 5 years ago 0

ARLIT DEUXIEME PARIS is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger. Here European corporations extract nuclear power and profits leaving behind disease, contamination and unemployment. In French, Bariba, Hausa and Tamashek with English subtitles

A Son of Africa

by California Newsreel created 4 years ago 0

A reconstruction of the first influential slave narrative, the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, which helped raise the conscience of Europe and America against slavery, includes commentary by scholars explaining the wider context of the Triangular Trade.

At The River I Stand

by California Newsreel created 8 years ago 0

Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with…

BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez

by California Newsreel created 5 years ago 0

BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez offers unprecedented access to the life, work and mesmerizing performances of renowned poet, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez who describes herself as "a woman with razor blades between my teeth."