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September 26, 2014
"Move Over" (1969) -- The Soul Children | Room Ful’A Sistahs -- Ernie Barnes
Ernie Barnes, Room Ful’A Sistahs
September 25, 2014
Social Activism in NC: Black Workers for Justice
Franklin Humanities Institute
Using archival footage, newspaper articles, photographs and clips from an oral history interview with Angaza Laughinghouse, this short video tells a brief history of Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ). BWFJ is BWFJ is an "organization of Black workers formed in 1981 out of a struggle led by Black women workers at a K-mart store in Rocky Mount, North Carolina against race and gender discrimination."
The video was produced and edited by Duke University student Lauren Gerald as part of the Spring 2014 Video for Social Change course at the Center for Documentary Studies.
Quoted text from the Black Workers for Justice website, http://blackworkersforjustice.org/abo...
"Never Let Me Down" (2004) -- Kanye West feat Jay Z & J. Ivy | "(Forever Free), Beware" (1994) -- Michael Ray Charles
Michael Ray Charles, "(Forever Free), Beware" (1994) Kanye West - Never Let Me Down (Feat. Jay-Z & J. Ivy) from Ice Man on Vimeo.
September 24, 2014
When the Digital Classroom Meets the Parents
APM Marketplace
The modern classroom is packed with digital technology that can record students’ academic performance in real time, as well as keep track of their attendance, assignments and more. All that data isn't just changing the classroom and the job of teachers. It's changing the role of parents, who are being asked to do more to keep up and keep tabs on their kids.
GlobalGirl Media: Teen Mothers in Oakland
GlobalGirl MediaIn a country that has the highest teen pregnancy in the industrialized world, GlobalGirl Media gives voice to Teen Mothers in Oakland, CA.
HistoryMakers Founder Julieanna Richardson on The Intersections of Race & Gender
The Boomer List Outtakes
Julieanna Richardson (b. 1954), historian and founder of HistoryMakers, says that before she worked for a black administration under Chicago’s Mayor Harold Washington (1983 – 1987), she wasn’t familiar with sexism. “I could only see the world in black and white and racism, I did not understand sexism at all … I’ve always felt that black females were at the bottom of the heap, that we got it from both sides, in many ways.”
September 23, 2014
'Black-ish' is a Sitcom Unafraid of Big Questions
MarketPlace APM
Black-ish is being hailed for bringing new ideas to the family sitcom landscape, but it's all very familiar for creator Kenya Barris.
Preview: American Masters: The Boomer List
American Masters | PBS
From the time of its birth, the baby boomer generation (1946-1964) has significantly and uniquely changed our world. 2014 marks an important shift in American culture, as the last boomers turn 50. American Masters: The Boomer List , premiering nationwide Tuesday, September 23, 9-10:30 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), tells the story of this influential generation through the lives of 19 iconic boomers—one born each year of the baby boom.
1946 Tim O’Brien , Vietnam vet / author
1947 Deepak Chopra, M.D., New Age guru
1948 Samuel L. Jackson, actor
1949 Billy Joel, singer-songwriter
1950 Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple Computer
1951 Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
1952 Amy Tan, author
1953 Eve Ensler , playwright
1954 Julieanna Richardson , historian and founder, The HistoryMakers
1955 Maria Shriver , journalist
1956 Kim Cattrall , actor
1957 Virginia Rometty, CEO, IBM
1958 Ellen Ochoa, Director, Johnson Space Center
1959 Ronnie Lott, athlete
1960 Erin Brockovich , environmentalist
1961 Peter Staley, AIDS activist
1962 Rosie O’Donnell, entertainer
1963 David LaChapelle, artist
1964 John Leguizamo , actor
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