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HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Filmmaker Byron Hurt, a life-long hip-hop fan, was watching rap music videos on BET when he realized that each video was nearly identical. Guys in fancy cars threw money at the camera while scantily clad women danced in the background. As he discovered how stereotypical rap videos had become, Hurt, a former college quarterback turned activist, decided to make a film about the gender politics of hip-hop, the music and the culture that he grew up with. The more I grew and the more I learned about sexism and violence and homophobia, the more those lyrics became unacceptable to me, he says. And I began to become more conflicted about the music that I loved. The result is HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a riveting documentary that tackles issues of masculinity, sexism, violence and homophobia in todays hip-hop culture. |
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Mzwakhe Mbuli Interview –South African poet and singer
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We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEustonChimamanda Ngozi Adichie a renowned Nigerian novelist was born in Nigeria in 1977. She grew up in the university town of Nsukka, Enugu State where she attended primary and secondary schools, and briefly studied Medicine and Pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a major in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale University. She was named one of the twenty most important fiction writers today under 40 years old by The New Yorker and was recently the guest speaker at the 2012 annual commonwealth lecture. She featured in the April 2012 edition of Time Magazine, celebrated as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. She currently divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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Queen Mother Imakhu Mu Nefer-t - Kemetic Influence on Winter & Easter Holiday Traditions, Pt.1
Pt.1 of 3. Queen Mother Imakhu teaches the Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) and African goddess origins of popular winter traditions, including Winter Solstice, tree decorating, Christmas. She also shares the "Tree of Life" connection with the High Priestess of Tarot, the significance of bellydancers using a veil, and much more.Queen Mother Imakhu performs two bellydance tributes to the African goddess. |
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Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow" - 2013 George E. Kent Lecture
Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African American professors at the University of Chicago. The Annual George E. Kent Lecture is organized and sponsored by the Organization of Black Students, the Black Student Law Association, and the Students for a Free Society. |
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Host of Divine Speech interviews Manbo Queen Rose Pierre-Noel of Traditions of Haiti
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Women of Calabash
Stevie Wonder- Black Man
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Ivan Van Sertima, is a scholar of African Studies at Rutgers University. He maintains that Africans were responsible for advances in metallurgy, astronomy, agriculture, medicine and other fields. He also believes that black Africans came to North America before Christopher Columbus. (Original broadcast 1997)
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Book Discussion on They Lived Before Adam Book Discussion on They Lived Before Adam Catherine Acholonu, author of They Lived Before Adam: Prehistoric Origins of the Igbo, The Never-Been-Ruled (Catherine Acholonu Research Foundation, 2009). The book details her research on the Ikom Monoliths of Cross River State, Nigeria. She argues that these stones inscriptions were made by the common ancestors of what she refers to as the Niger-Benue sub-family of Nigerian tribes and that they reveal the lost civilizations of ancient Nigeria.
This was the 11:30 a.m. EDT program of the 11th annual Harlem Book Fair from the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [Courtesy of CSPAN} 2009
This was the 11:30 a.m. EDT program of the 11th annual Harlem Book Fair from the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [Courtesy of CSPAN} 2009
Reparations
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Ray Winbush- REPARATIONS (from Slavery up until the 21st Century)
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March For Reparation 2014 Pt3
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Should we pay reparations for slavery in Britain
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Reparations for the crimes and legacy of slavery
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Reparations, Queen Mother Moore
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Donna Lamb - Reparations
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