In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polari...

I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned aroun...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the...

An American story. Traces the career of Joe Louis (1914-1981) within the context of American racial ...

In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college bask...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...
Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey ...

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights l...

For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an a...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one ...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp ...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...

July, 1949: four young black men are wrongly accused of rape by a 17-year-old farm wife in rural Lak...