Islam, African Americans: Films

This film discusses race awareness, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in Canada and the United States. It includes footage of Malcolm X, plus speeches and demonstrations from the civil rights era. The film makers also provide a glimpse into a chapter of The Nation of Islam in Montreal, Canada. There are interviews with Dr. James Turner, KRS-One (Kris Parker), Dr. Imari A. Obadele, Jesse Jackson, and Johnita Obadele.

Documents the African-American religious experience during the last three centuries from the early African slaves, through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st century. Explores the struggle of African-Americans in their faith and how it became a force for social, political and cultural change in the United States.

In this program, the sense of urgency and anger in the black communities in the North is articulated by Malcolm X, a minister of the Nation of Islam. It shows his influence both within the civil rights movement and outside and the the influence of his philosophy on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as they organize and issue the call for "Black power" in 1966 in Mississippi.

Through interviews, archival footage, and photographs this film documents the life and work of Malcolm X. Highlights his influence on Black Nationalism.