A case that brought the Civil Rights struggle to the “tolerant” Northeast

It was home… until it wasn't

The resilience of Black Language in the face of discrimination and its significant cultural impact.

A glorious evening of song honoring birth and birthwork for all.

Meet Mary Pleasant is the daring saga of a 19th-century African-American woman, born a slave and raised in Nantucket, who became an international abolitionist, a prosperous entrepreneur, and a civil-rights activist whose work helped alter modern-day civil-rights law. Now called “The Mother of Civil Rights in California,” Pleasant--as activist and individual--was a Martin Luther King, a Malcolm X, and a Rosa Parks combined; she could love across boundaries of race and class while fighting for racial equality, human rights, and dignity for her people. Her life thus can be important today in healing our divisions as a people.

One of the most significant African American leaders of the Reconstruction Era.

From harmony to heartbreak, the world of the early, unsung heroes of rock and roll whose voices shaped music that endures.

Winner to date of five international festival awards and a Telly Award in documentary film, Voices for Freedom – The Hyers Sisters’ Legacy chronicles the lives of Sacramento's Hyers Sisters -- African-American opera prodigies who toured the nation to acclaim from the 1871 to 1894 and championed human rights in works that changed American Music Theater forever. The Hyers were celebrated in touring opera nationwide from 1871-73, but in 1876 -- perilous times, when touring blackface minstrels denigrated African Americans -- they stood up and became "voices" for the dignity of their people. Through beloved music-dramatic works (now called the first American musicals) they depicted black life with dignity to their mainstream audiences for the first time, changing many minds and hearts.. The film gives insights into times of lynching, Chinese and black persecution, and Jim Crow while it presents colorful excerpts from opera, music theater, period song, and spirituals sung by internationally acclaimed artists. It is hosted by opera superstar Denyce Graves and is enriched with montages, enactments, a hip-hop poet, historical narration, and informed commentary that shed light on our lives today.

The cycles of place and displacement, it is a story of the United States of America.

The enduring African influence on African-American language and culture in the U.S.

During the Civil Rights Movement, Wisconsin students produced a play and crossed a divide.

The world premiere opera about the execution of George Stinney

A community led project develops a play imagining regional cities as an intergenerational family.

Exploring Sankofa’s role in linking Black history to justice and future generations.

Louisville mourns the passing of a legend

Mississippi high school students explore and document Civil Rights history in the Delta.

The life and legacy of Kentucky-born feminist author bell hooks

An American road trip that unveils the unspoken perspectives at our nation's monuments.

How one log cabin helped a community come to terms with its past

Top Black Studies scholars, artists and activists

A Black dancer and white choreographer heal racial unrest after the death of George Floyd

A Black community in Virginia is uprooted to build a public university.

Bringing Black stories to life to break barriers and bridge communities.

One of the nation’s oldest African American women’s organizations.

Talks focused on the journeys and experiences people of color face today.