African American


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Harlem Renaissance and Paris
Richard A. Long
February 17, 2007
01:03:16
Dr. Richard A. Long speaks about the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, which has been the subject of much discussion and reflection over the past three decades.
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Lani Guinier: Race, Gender and Power
Lani Guinier
September 25, 2002
01:30:31
Civil rights expert Lani Guinier discusses the current distribution of power in the United States. Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities.
Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?
Michael Sandel
November 8, 2009
00:55:00
Lecture Seventeen: "Arguing Affirmative Action" Students discuss the issue of affirmative action and college admissions. Is it "just" for schools to consider race and ethnicity as a factor in admissions? Does it violate individual rights?
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.
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
April 25, 2003
01:55:23
The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University celebrates the centennial of a pivotal publication by inviting the public to hear writers, critics, and members of Harvard's faculty and administration read some of the many memorable passages from The Souls of Black Folk.
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Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land
Kate Clifford Larson
February 10, 2004
00:52:38
Historian Kate Clifford Larson discusses her new book, Bound for the Promised Land, which draws on a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical research and reveals Harriet Tubman as a complex woman who was brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her p
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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America
Frederick Douglass Opie
October 14, 2008
01:03:45
Fredrick Douglas Opie, associate professor of history and director of the African Diaspora Studies Program at Marist College, discusses his book, Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America.
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Bayard Rustin: Live Speech on the Freedom Budget
Bayard Rustin
December 11, 1967
00:49:17
Bayard Rustin, a leader of the civil rights movement, proposes the Freedom Budget.