Movies: Ruby Dee

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature....

For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black pride and intellect, it taught values, disci...

An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited....

U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen....

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the alcoholism and debauchery of their older son Jamie. As day tur...

Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."...

Follows the band's rise in show business, starting with its origins in the Navy during World War II and their struggle to make it....

"Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial" was a 1983 episode of the PBS science documentary series NOVA. It explored the field of anthropology, particularly in the context of Papua New Guinea, from the perspective of the people being studied....

Family - Set in Harlem in 1919, two girls - one white, one black - form a lifelong friendship through a chance encounter and the jazztime music of young "Fats" Waller....