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"People Over Profits"--Video from Jasiri X

Jasiri X
Produced by RLGN, "People Over Profits" was filmed in support of thousands of workers protesting the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the city's largest employer, for paying poverty wages, saddling employees with medical debt, and preventing them from forming a union. To support the rights of UPMC workers go to http://makeitourupmc.org/.)

'Prep School Negro' Shows Struggle Between Poverty And Plenty

N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo Advocates State-Funded College For Inmates

Nia Long: Behind the Cover

Essence Magazine
Nia Long talks about the juggling act that is parenting and working, and what it was like to act with her son in "The Single Moms Club."

Black Girls Code—Episode 2: The Revolution will be Digitized

BlackGirlsCode

BLACK GIRLS CODE: THE SERIES is a unique documentary web series is meant to inspire.

This episode focuses on BGC's recent workshop in MIAMI. 



Founded by Kimberly Bryant, Black Girls Code is a unique non-profit that introduced young girls of color into the fields of STEM.

Support & Join the MOVEMENT OF BLACK GIRLS CODE. They are creating the future pioneers of our generation.

Support Black Girls Code @ BlackGirlsCode.com

Series directed by Shanice Malakai Johnson
MalakaiCreative.com

Left of Black S4:E23: Staging Black Gay Men of the South

Left of Black S4:E23:   Staging Black Gay Men of the South
In the Left of Black studios at the John Hope Franklin Center, Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by noted scholar and performance artist E. Patrick Johnson, in a discussion of his one-man stage show Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men on the South , based on his book of the same title.  Johnson is the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), A Philosopher Behind The Black Power Movement

Bettmann/Corbis

9th Wonder Talks 'The Hip-Hop Fellow' in #Nerdland

MHP Show
Harvard’s hip hop fellow comes to NerdlandGrammy award-winning producer Patrick Douthit, also known as 9th Wonder, joins #nerdland to discuss the new documentary he’s featured in “The Hip Hop Fellow” which chronicles the acceptance of hip hop as a viable discipline within academia.

'Americanah is 'My F--- You Novel'--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on HuffPost Live

HuffPost Live

Prolific Nigerian author and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie join us to discuss her literary career and latest book, 'Americanah.' Hosted by Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani.

When Hip-hop Collides with the War on Terrorism

PRI's 'The World'
Hisham Aidi traveled around festivals and concerts in the US, Europe, North Africa, South America listening to music and talking politics with Muslim youth. The result is his new book, Rebel Music:  Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture. Listen Here