Michelle Alexander at Riverside Church (Online)
Noteworthy Films @ Cornell (Not Online)
The Central Park Five
Call Number: Africana Librarhy Videodisc 704Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the Central Park 5-a group of Black and Latino teenagers wrongfully convicted of brutally raping a white woman in New York.Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
Call Number: Olin Library Media Center Videodisc 4746This documentary was designed as a teaching tool to expand knowledge about the history of the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement in the United States.Etnnic Notions
Call Number: Africana Library Videodisc 420Covering more than 100 years of U.S. history, traces the evolution of Black American caricatures and stereotypes that have fueled anti-black prejudice. Loyal Toms, carefree Sambos, faithful Mammies, grinning Coons, savage Brutes, and wide-eyed Pickaninnies roll across the screen in cartoons, feature films, popular songs, minstrel shows, advertisements, folklore, household artifacts, even children's rhymes. These dehumanizing caricatures permeated popular culture from the 1820s to the Civil Rights period and implanted themselves deep in the American psyche.The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Call Number: Africana Library Videodisc 617Offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the "Jim Crow" system originated and developed.
Noteworthy Films
Bill Moyer's Journal: Economic Justice for All? (online)
In the months before his death, Martin Luther King, Jr. had expanded his focus on racial justice to include reducing economic inequality. What has happened to Dr. King's vision of economic justice? In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with attorneys Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander--experts in civil rights advocacy and litigation--to discuss just how far the U.S. has come as a country, why poor and working-class Americans have fallen further behind economically, and what the nation must do to fulfill Martin Luther King's visionSlavery By Another Name (online)
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.The House I Live In
Call Number: Africana Library Videodisc 725For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-rending stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, revealing profound human rights implications.
Selected Lectures (Online)
- From Jail to Law School: Jim Crow-Era Law Bars Florida Man from Voting, Taking Bar, Serving on JuryThis program features Attorney General Eric Holder speaking about the need to repeal of state laws that prohibit formerly incarcerated people from voting. Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, is also featured. He talks about not being able to vote (or take the bar) because he was convicted of a felony in the state of Florida.