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r/EGRESS/ion: Exploring Issues of Black Masculinity and Black Male Behavior

r/EGRESS/ion ©2011 is the video accompaniment to Fahamu Pecou's critically acclaimed series, Hard2Death:2nd Childhood.
Directed by Fahamu Pecou | Camera by Neda Abghari | Editing by Fahamu Pecou
A collection of works by Atlanta-based artist Fahamu Pecou that explores issues of black masculinity and black male behavior. HARD 2 Death asks; When does self-preservation become self-destruction? [image error]

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Unplugged

Watch A Civil Rights Firebrand Still Inspires Fascination and Fear on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.
Independent Lens:Episode: A Civil Rights Firebrand Still Inspires Fascination and FearHip hop musician Talib Kweli recounts how he became a figure of interest to federal officials while he was researching the speeches of Stokely Carmichael ... 40 years after the fact.
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Malcolm & Martin: "Movement Music" [video]

DJ Revolution presents....... Malcolm & Martin! This is the Revolutionary Hip-Hop group's video for first single "Movement Music" produced by Marco Polo off the duo's album Life Doesn't Frighten Me .[image error]

The State of Black Studies on the January 9th 'Left of Black'

The State of Black Studies on the January9th Left of Black
Left of Blackhost and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype©by Later Neal is joined, alsovia Skype©, by Sociologist MignonMoore, author of the new book Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships andMotherhood among Black Women (University of California Press).  Moore is associate professor ofSociology at UCLA.
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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustreamchannel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitterconversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags#LeftofBlack or #dukelive. 
Left of Blackis recorded and produced at the JohnHope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at DukeUniversity.
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A Slave in the White House: The Story of Paul Jennings

                       
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Author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor tells the story of Paul Jennings, who served as one of James Madison's slaves and ultimately purchased his own freedom.
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I'm Feminist Enough To, Manifestos - Vol. 3, London

Featuring: Simone Bresi-Ando, Lorraine Russell and Sherry Bitting. Shot in London, UK, 2011. [image error]

Daisy Bates: A Feminist Before the Term was Invented

Watch A Feminist Before the Term Was Invented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.
Independent LensEpisode: A Feminist Before the Term Was Invented
As a black woman who was a feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society. This film tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students who registered to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas -- pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself.
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Soul Babies Revisited: A Mix by Daniel Gray-Kontar

Soul Babies Revisited by Daniel Gray Kontar
Before every Sanctuary, our goal is to give you some music to make it through the end of the week before you get to the Saturday night party. This month, we thought it would be Ricky Santorum of us to have replife pick 15 tracks to give to aLive without the latter's knowing what was coming his way. Unlike "nonslick rick", aLive provides a flawless mix of tracks with bedroom eyes to tracks sporting fresh Zoo Yorks on the dance floor. Trust ... you need this in ur life.
Oh yeah ... and each Sanctuary mixtape is a spin off of a classic book title. In this instance, we have titled this mixtape Soul Babies Revisited based on Mark Anthony Neal's cult classic work of nonfixion titled Soul Babies. Check it if you ain't already. 
Looking forward to seeing you this Saturday, and if you can't make it, at least this mixtape may give you something to vibrate to. Spread the music. Spread the word. Spread love.Ez ya'll. 
- The Sanctuary Crew

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Independent Lens | Daisy Bates: The First Lady of Little Rock (Trailer)

 
Watch A Civil Rights Hero Who Put Her Life on the Line on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.

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As a black woman who was a feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society. This program tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students who registered to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a constitutional crisis — pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself. Unconventional, revolutionary and egotistical, Bates reaped the rewards of instant fame, but paid dearly for it.

Book Trailer | My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War by Lawrence P. Jackson

My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
by Lawrence P. Jackson
University of Chicago Press, 2012

Armed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfather's old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. My Father's Name tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at once a detective story and a moving historical memoir, uncovering the mixture of anguish and fulfillment that accompanies a venture into the ancestral past, specifically one tied to the history of slavery.
After asking around in Pittsylvania County and carefully putting the pieces together, Jackson finds himself in the house of distant relations. In the pages that follow, he becomes increasingly absorbed by the search for his ancestors and increasingly aware of how few generations an African American needs to map back in order to arrive at slavery, "a door of no return." Ultimately, Jackson's dogged research in libraries, census records, and courthouse registries enables him to trace his family to his grandfather's grandfather, a man who was born or sold into slavery but who, when Federal troops abandoned the South in 1877, was able to buy forty acres of land. In this intimate study of a black Virginia family and neighborhood, Jackson vividly reconstructs moments in the lives of his father's grandfather, Edward Jackson, and great-grandfather, Granville Hundley, and gives life to revealing narratives of Pittsylvania County, recalling both the horror of slavery and the later struggles of postbellum freedom.
My Father's Name is a family story full of twists and turns—and one of haunting familiarity to many Americans, who may question whether the promises of emancipation have ever truly been fulfilled. It is also a resolute look at the duties that come with reclaiming and honoring Americans who survived slavery and a thoughtful meditation on its painful and enduring history.