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New! Moyers & Company: MLK's Dream of Economic Justice
Item# 53366
© 2013
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-793-6
Martin Luther King had long known that racial equality was inextricably linked to economic equity-fairness for all, including working people and the poor. In the last year of his life, Dr. King announ...
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Moyers & Company: Confronting the Contradictions of America's Past
Item# 50209
© 2012
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-497-6
Bill Moyers opens this edition of Moyers & Company with thoughts about the origins and lessons of Independence Day. We should remember, he says, that behind the Fourth of July holiday are human be...
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New to Our Collection! Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Life Savers
Item# 52675
© 2011
56 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-753-0
It was October 11, 1896, and the E. S. Newman was en route to the Chesapeake Bay when a hurricane ran it aground two miles off the coast of North Carolina. As a violent surf began to tear the schooner...
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New to Our Collection! Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?
Item# 53086
© 2011
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-714-1
After a 7.0 earthquake brutalized Haiti in January of 2010, Americans donated a stunning $1.4 billion to major charities. Ten months later, filmmaker Michele Mitchell went to the Caribbean nation to o...
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Buffalo Soldiers: An American Legacy
Item# 50118
© 2011
44 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-826-4
By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 black soldiers were serving in the Federal Army. After the war, many decided not to return to a life of sharecropping and racial oppression, instead volunte...
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Harlem Voices: The Poetry of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay
Item# 48285
© 2011
30 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-943-4
Harlem is and always has been more than just a neighborhood. Exploring the community’s rich literary heritage, this program focuses on the work of two Harlem-based poets: Langston Hughes, one of the m...
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DEFORCE: The Past, Present, and Future of Detroit
Item# 50565
© 2010
86 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-243-6
Once viewed as a model for urban America, Detroit has experienced what many believe to be the worst downturn in living standards and population of any large American city. Exactly how and why such a d...
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Blacking Up: Hip-Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity
Item# 49772
© 2010
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-597-3
Hip-hop music was created by urban youth of color amid racial oppression and economic marginalization, but was quickly embraced by young people worldwide. This documentary examines the popularity of h...
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Filling the Gap: A Forgotten Chapter of American History
Item# 52770
© 2009
83 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-233-7
The achievements of Frederick Douglass are well known, as are those of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and other heroic African-Americans during the Civil War period. Fewer people have ever heard of...
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Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Item# 49778
© 2009
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-600-0
Who has the authority to define a culture—especially if people from that culture are denied the opportunity to engage in the scholarly discourse of defining themselves? Is there a politics of knowledg...
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