Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documents
MANDELA: Free at Last
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 003Format: VHSProducers: Rory O’Connor, Danny SchechterCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A documentary about South Africa, apartheid, Nelson Mandela and his role in the liberation of South Africa.
In My Own Words: Welcome to the Terrordome! Communique from the Belly of the Beast
Call Number: V 118Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A 45 minute interview with New Afrikan Anarchist Prisoner Of War Ojore N Lutalo. A long time Black Liberation solider, imprisoned since 1982, this interview was conducted while Ojore was in New Jersey State Prison's infamous Management Control Unit. Ojore shares his revolutionary outlook on topics such as the state, class, racism, black leadership, the function of prisons, political prisoners, the Black Liberation Army, vegetarian survival in prison, and maintaining one's sense of purpose under repressive conditions.
Paul Robeson, The First 100 Years: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy
Date: 4/5/1998Call Number: V 146Format: VHSProducers: WBAI Radio-NYCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Begins with a video montage with narration on Robeson’s life, including excerpts from his speeches and interviews, historic film footage.
Followed by speakers who pay tribute to Robeson; musical performances. Concludes with a panel discussion and questions from audience.
Dr. Charles Wright is seated on the stage but is not shown speaking.
Paul Robeson, The First 100 Years: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy
Date: 4/5/1998Call Number: V 147Format: VHSProducers: WBAI Radio-NYCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Begins with a video montage with narration on Robeson’s life, including excerpts from his speeches and interviews, historic film footage.
Followed by speakers who pay tribute to Robeson; musical performances. Concludes with a panel discussion and questions from audience.
Dr. Charles Wright is seated on the stage but is not shown speaking.
DU Zaire Au Congo
Call Number: V 153Format: UmaticProducers: Christian MesnilCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Part 1 of 2.
SAME AS V154
Continued on V215
This documentary by Christian Mesnil chronicles Congo's struggle for independence from the racist colonial rule of King Leopold's Belgium. Using archival pictures and footage, as well as poetry and music, this documentary covers the colonial occupation of the Congo from 1885 to the declaration of independence in 1960 as well as the subsequent postcolonial struggle. Much emphasis is placed on the political life of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961) and included are statements and speeches spanning from his organizing work with the Mouvement National Congolais to his inagueration as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This film is in French with no subtitles. B&W.
Mandela in America
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 150Format: VHSProducers: Danny SchechterCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This complete chronicle of Nelson Mandela's U.S. tour includes an exclusive interview with Mandela and reactions from President Bush to actress and South African, Alfre Woodard. Also includes performances by Aretha Franklin, Tracy Chapman, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Stevie Wonder and more.
Additional performers include: Aretha Franklin, Tracy Chapman, Hugh Masekela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Johnny Clegg, Sweet Honey in the Rock.
A commemorative documentary.
Music Producer(s): Danny Schecter & Rory O'Connor
Combines studio and live performances.
Du Zaire Au Congo
Call Number: V 154Format: Mini DVProducers: Christian MesnilCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Part 1 of 2.
SAME AS V153
Continued in V215
This documentary by Christian Mesnil chronicles Congo's struggle for independence from the racist colonial rule of King Leopold's Belgium. Using archival pictures and footage, as well as poetry and music, this documentary covers the colonial occupation of the Congo from 1885 to the declaration of independence in 1960 as well as the subsequent postcolonial struggle. Much emphasis is placed on the political life of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961) and included are statements and speeches spanning from his organizing work with the Mouvement National Congolais to his inagueration as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This film is in French with no subtitles. B&W.
Africa & the Future
Date: 2/2/1996Call Number: V 156Format: VHSProducers: CSPAN2Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Africa & the Future - a debate on Pan Africanism with Kwame Ture and Molefi Asante sponsored by the United Afrikan Organization of the University of Cincinnati. Ture outlines the history and future of Pan Africanism as a founder of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party. In his unflagging efforts to forge a diasporan coalition of African peoples who could stand against imperialism and exploitation, Ture attempted to develop unified social and economic ideology. His study of the writings of the Marxists and of the principles of African socialism led him to scientific socialism, which he advocated for the last thirty years of his life
Molefi Asante speaks to Afrocentrism. Afrocentricity is a term coined by Temple University professor Molefi Asante. Asante believes the educational system in the U.S. promotes white supremacy because it focuses primarily on the achievement of white men in American history and examines and reveres only the contributions of white Europeans over the centuries. In contrast, Afrocentric education draws on the history and philosophy of African cultures in the diaspora.
WEB Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: V 157Format: VHSProducers: Louis MassiahCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Writer/Narrators: Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka
The long and remarkable life of Dr. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B) Du Bois (1868-1963) offers unique insights into an eventful century in African American history. Born three years after the end of the Civil War, Du Bois witnessed the imposition of Jim Crow, its defeat by the Civil Rights Movement and the triumph of African independence struggles.
Du Bois was the consummate scholar-activist whose path-breaking works remain among the most significant and articulate ever produced on the subject of race. His contributions and legacy have been so far-reaching, that this, his first film biography, required the collaboration of four prominent African American writers. Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka narrate successive periods of Du Bois' life and discuss its impact on their work.
Part One: Black Folk and the New Century (1895-1915)
Du Bois' first sociological work, The Philadelphia Negro, and, even more, The Souls of Black Folk, examined the cultural and political psychology of the American African Diaspora. During the same period, racism was institutionalized under the Jim Crow system. Du Bois emerged as the most outspoken critic of Booker T. Washington's advocacy of accommodation to segregation. He co-founded the Niagara Movement and then the NAACP to agitate for full equality between blacks and whites.
Part Two: The Crisis and the New Negro (1919-1929)
Du Bois created the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis, which became a vital organ in the burgeoning African American cultural movement, the Harlem Renaissance. Du Bois also was a founder of the Pan African movement, organizing the first international congresses of leaders from Africa and the Diaspora.
Part Three: A Second Reconstruction? (1934-1948)
Dismissed from the editorship of The Crisis for his radical views, Du Bois was forced to resume his academic career at age 68. It was now the Depression and he became more open to leftist ideology as reflected in his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction.
Part Four: Color, Democracy, Colonies and Peace (1949-1963)
Du Bois' continuing anti-racist activism and growing leftist sympathies made him a target during the McCarthy years. He was indicted and for a time his passport was revoked. In 1961, Kwame Nkrumah, the president of the newly independent African state of Ghana, invited him to participate in that country's development; Du Bois accepted, living there for the remainder of his life.
Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks before the National Newspaper Publishers Association
Date: 3/14/1996Call Number: V 159Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Louis Farrakhan is being honored with the 1995 newsmaker of the year award,given by the National Newspaper Publishers Associaton ( the assciaton is a trade association for 200 black newspapers). He speaks about how the media has distorted and crushed black leaders and their views; but he honors the National Newspaper Publishers Association for going against the mainsteam and awarding him for his work.He talks about his trips to Africa and the Islamic world.
