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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Charles Burnett
April 2, 2009
00:46:24
The creators of the 2003 documentary Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property discuss their film, which analyzes Nat Turner's slave rebellion of 1831 and its aftermath in American memory.
Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa
Pamela Brooks
April 2, 2009
01:15:47
Pamela Brooks shares from her new book Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa.
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
Richard Powell
March 14, 2009
00:54:53
Dr. Richard J. Powell discusses his new book, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. He examines the distinctive nature of modern and contemporary portraits of people of African descent.
Transforming Cape Town: The Role of Education Activists
Catherine Besteman
February 19, 2009
01:25:24
Catherine Besteman, chair of Anthropology at Colby College, speaks about her new book, Transforming Cape Town, which explores the emotional and personal aspects of the legacy of apartheid
John Frederick Walker: Ivory's Ghost
John Frederick Walker
January 17, 2009
00:53:20
John Frederick Walker shares the fascinating story of ivory's enormous impact on both human history and that of its most important source, the majestic African elephant. A century ago, ivory was the plastic of its era.
Paul Goodnight: Memorial for the Middle Passage
Paul Goodnight
October 30, 2008
00:26:54
African cultural artist Paul Goodnight talks about the power of art and its ability to fight inhumanity, change perceptions, and heal old wounds. This is what a Boston monument memorializing the slave trade's "Middle Passage" could do for the world.
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Helene Cooper: House at Sugar Beach
Helene Cooper
September 15, 2008
00:49:50
Award-winning journalist Helene Cooper discusses her new book, The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, a memoir of her youth in Liberia and what occurred after she and her family were exiled to America.
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Step Into Africa: Living With AIDS
Princess Kasune Zulu
August 14, 2008
01:01:18
Princess Kasune Zulu shares first-hand knowledge of what it means to be orphaned by AIDS and to contract it herself.