The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

Tenor saxophonist, composer and producer Kamasi Washington and his band perform a special show at Ha...
A small urban city with a gargantuan wealth of history, contributions, and changes. From the steel ...

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

The Hurricane Maria represented a historic event for the island of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican spi...
Performance and conversation with husband-and-wife poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at a New Jersey...

While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group ...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...

Tara and Maya are inseparable, with the same tastes, habits, and hobbies. Years later, the two have ...

A short film, based on a series of poems, about childhood, the break with parental, and war.

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Hu...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils in...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercove...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding...

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching f...