Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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DVD
The Black Panthers : vanguard of the revolution [2016]
Stanley Nelson
Black Panther [2018]
Ryan Coogler
Uncle Yanco ; Black Panthers [2015]
Agnès Varda
Selma [2015]
Ava DuVernay
Selma, Lord, Selma [2003]
Christopher Seitz
Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights… [1986]
Henry Hampton
An ordinary hero : the true story of Joan… [2013]
Loki Mulholland
The march : the story of the greatest march in… [2013]
John Akomfrah
4 little girls [1997]
Spike Lee
Let freedom ring : moments from the civil rights… [2008]
Lester Holt
Slavery by another name [2012]
Sam Pollard
Freedom riders [2011]
Freedom summer [2014]
Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of… [2016]
Carole Boston Weatherford
I am not your negro [2016]
Raoul Peck
Boycott [2001]
Clark Johnson
Book
The girl from the tar paper school : Barbara… [2014]
Teri Kanefield
The Rosa Parks story [2001]
Christine Sacani
The untold story of Emmett Louis Till [2005]
Keith A Beauchamp
Paul Robeson. Citizen of the world. [2007]
Pen Tennyson
Under the freedom tree [2014]
Susan VanHecke
For us, the living : the Medgar Evers story [1983]
Michael Schultz
Adam Clayton Powell [2009]
Richard Kilberg
Maya Angelou, and still I rise [2016]
Bob Hercules
Betty & Coretta [2013]
Yves Simoneau
African-American leaders : past & present. [2014]
Arts and Entertainment Network,
Death of a prophet : the last 24 hours of… [2006]
Woodie King
Nothing but a man [2004]
Michael Roemer
Malcolm X [1992]
Two nations of black America [1998]
June Cross
Black America since MLK : and still I rise [2017]
Henry Louis Gates
Birth of a movement : the battle against… [2017]
Susan Gray
Two friends : Susan B. Anthony and Frederick… [2016]
Phylicia Rashad
Black is the color [2016]
Jacques Goldstein
Jackie Robinson [2016]
Ken Burns
All the way [2016]
Jay Roach
What happened, Miss Simone? [2015]
Liz Garbus
Spies of Mississippi [2014]
Dawn Porter
Through a lens darkly : black photographers and… [2014]
Thomas Allen Harris
Ghosts of Ole Miss [2013]
Fritz Mitchell
The long walk home [1990]
Richard Pearce
The abolitionists [2013]
Rob Rapley
Sing your song [2012]
Susanne Rostock
March on! : the day my brother Martin changed… [2010]
Lynn Whitfield
Black history : from civil war through today. [2007]
Basquiat [1999]
David Bowie
Jean-Michel Basquiat : the radiant child [2010]
Tamra Davis
Basquiat : rage to riches [2018]
David Shulman
Downtown 81 [2015]
Edo Bertoglio
James Brown, live at the Apollo '68. [2008]
James Brown
The best of Soul train [2010]
Ralph Quattrucci
5 conversations about soul [2003]
Scott Andrews-Dunn
Al Green, golden hits : the ultimate collection. [2013]
Al Green
Mr. Dynamite : the rise of James Brown [2014]
Alex Gibney
Motown 25 : yesterday, today, forever [1983]
Don Mischer
Get on up : the James Brown story [2014]
Tate Taylor
Miss Sharon Jones! [2015]
Barbara Kopple
I am Richard Pryor [2019]
Jesse James Miller
Thelonious Monk : straight no chaser [1988]
Charlotte Zwerin
Toni Morrison : the pieces I am [2019]
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Father's kingdom [2019]
Lenny Feinberg
Being Serena [2018]
Aaron Cohen
King in the wilderness [2018]
Peter W Kunhardt
Out of wonder : poems celebrating poets [2018]
Kwame Alexander
Morningside 5 [2018]
Michael Tollin
Baltimore boys [2017]
Marquis Daisy
John Lewis : get in the way [2017]
Kathleen Dowdey
Chasing Trane : the John Coltrane documentary [2017]
John Scheinfeld
Trombone Shorty [2016]
Troy Andrews
Bayou Maharajah [2016]
Lily Keber
August Wilson : the ground on which I stand [2015]
Hoop dreams [1994]
Steve James
The Doctor [2015]
Zak Levitt
No no : a dockumentary [2015]
Jeffery J Radice
A genius leaves the hood : the unauthorized… [2014]
Moguldom Studios,
Jamel Shabazz : street photographer [2015]
Charlie Ahearn
Moms Mabley [2014]
Whoopi Goldberg
Mr. civil rights : Thurgood Marshall & the NAACP [2014]
Mick Caouette
Kehinde Wiley : an economy of grace [2014]
Jeff Dupre
A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe… [2014]
Matt de la Peña
Ornette : made in America [1986]
Shirley Clarke
I am Ali [2014]
Clare Lewins
Richard Pryor : icon [2014]
Chip Bolcik
Beyoncé, life is but a dream [2013]
Beyoncé
Free Angela, and all political prisoners [2012]
Shola Lynch
Jimi Hendrix, hear my train a comin' [2013]
Bob Smeaton
King : a filmed record-- Montgomery to Memphis [1970]
Ely Landau
A band called Death [2013]
Jeff Howlett
Venus and Serena [2012]
Maiken Baird
Letters from Jackie : the private thoughts of… [2013]
Major League Baseball Productions.
Coretta Scott [2013]
Ntozake Shange
Mumia, long distance revolutionary : a journey… [2013]
Stephen Vittoria
The powerbroker : Whitney Young's fight for… [2013]
Christine Khalafian
George Washington Carver : an uncommon way [2010]
Ken Carpenter
Sarah Vaughan, the divine one [2010]
Matthew Seig
Barack Obama [2008]
Jonathan Towers
Obama, all access : Barack Obama's road to the… [2009]
Steve Kroft
Shirley Chisholm : first African American… [2009]
Brian Stewart
Only the ball was white [1994]
Paul Winfield
New Video Group.
Brother outsider : the life of Bayard Rustin [2008]
Bayard Rustin
African American lives 2 [2008]
Gospel according to Al Green [1984]
Robert Mugge
African American lives [2006]
Half past autumn : the life and works of Gordon… [2006]
Craig Rice
Unforgivable blackness : the rise and fall of… [2004]
Frederick Douglass [1994]
Craig Haffner
Mahalia Jackson : the power and the glory [2002]
Jeff Scheftel
The Miles Davis story [2001]
Michael Dibb
Muddy Waters : can't be satisfied [2002]
Morgan Neville
Sidney Poitier : one bright light [1999]
Sidney Poitier
W.E.B. Du Bois : a biography in four voices [1995]
Louis Massiah
Harriet [2019]
Kasi Lemmons
Us [2019]
Jordan Peele
Get out [2017]
BlacKkKlansman [2018]
Key & Peele. Season 1 [2014]
Keegan-Michael Key
Key & Peele. Season 2 [2014]
Key & Peele. Season 3 [2014]
Pioneers of African-American cinema [1915]
Charles Musser
The African Americans : many rivers to cross [2013]
Hidden colors 3 : the rules of racism [2014]
Tariq Nasheed
Hidden colors 2 : the triumph of melanin [2012]
Hidden colors : the untold history of people of… [2011]
Personal problems [2018]
Bill Gunn
Soundtrack for a revolution [2009]
Danny Glover
Sorry to bother you [2018]
Boots Riley
Black is-- black ain't : a personal journey… [1995]
Marlon T Riggs
A distant shore : African Americans of D-Day [2007]
History Channel (Television network)
Atlanta. The complete first season [2016]
Donald Glover
Killer of sheep [1977]
Charles Burnett
Whatever happened to Idlewild? [1999]
Coy W Davis
Medicine for melancholy [2008]
Barry Jenkins
Black brigade [1970]
George McCowan
Meet the Browns. Season 5, episodes 81-100 [2012]
Tyler Perry
Generation one : the search for black wealth [2015]
Lamar Tyler
Do the right thing [1989]
More than a month [2013]
Shukree Hassan Tilghman
The piano lesson [1995]
Lloyd Richards
Poetic justice [1993]
John Singleton
Paul Robeson. Outsider. [2007]
Oscar Micheaux
Black omnibus. [1973]
James Earl Jones
Black history activators : the most prolific… [2018]
Beverly Davis
Elementary genocide : the school to prison… [2014]
Rahiem Shabazz
Rosewood [1997]
Tell them we are rising : the story of black… [2017]
Black wings [2018]
Dan Wolf
The learning tree [1969]
Gordon Parks
Amazing Grace [2008]
LeVar Burton
BOSS : the black experience in business [2019]
Back to natural [2019]
Gillian Scott-Ward
Visual Materials
To sleep with anger [1990]
Rejoice & shout [2011]
Don McGlynn
American promise [2013]
Joe Brewster
BaadAsssss cinema : a bold look at 70's… [2002]
Isaac Julien
The Ezra Jack Keats collection [2009]
Ezra Jack Keats
Soul food junkies [2013]
Byron Hurt
Moonlight [2016]
In the heat of the night [2019]
Norman Jewison
The last black man in San Francisco [2019]
Joe Talbot
Boyz n the hood [1991]
Fair Hope [2012]
S Epatha Merkerson
Daughters of the dust [1991]
Julie Dash
Muhammad Ali, through the eyes of the world [2001]
Phil Grabsky
Wattstax [1973]
Mel Stuart
The cry of jazz [2004]
Ed Bland
The color purple [1985]
Steven Spielberg
The black power mixtape : 1967-1975 [2011]
Göran Hugo Olsson
Afro promo : Black cinema trailers, 1946-76 [2006]
Jenni Olson
John Lee Hooker : that's my story [2002]
Jörg Bundschuh
Miss Evers' boys [1997]
Walter Bernstein
Little white lie [2014]
Lacey Schwartz
40 years later : our people [2013]
John Washington
King [1978]
Lady sings the blues [1972]
Sidney J Furie
Martin Scorsese presents The blues : a musical… [2003]
Martin Scorsese
Bessie [2015]
Dee Rees
Tyler Perry : film maker, business entrepreneur,… [2013]
Azure Entertainment (Firm),
Gifted hands : the Ben Carson story [2009]
Cuba Gooding
The Temptations [2011]
Allan Arkush
The Harlem Renaissance : the music & rhythms… [2004]
Count Basie
The hurricane [1999]
Booker's place : a Mississippi story [2012]
Raymond DeFelitta
Paul Robeson. Pioneer. [2007]
Zoltan Korda
What we want, what we believe : the Black… [2006]
Roz B Payne
Negroes with guns : Rob Williams and Black Power [2004]
Sandra H Dickson
The hate U give [2019]
George Tillman
Brother minister : the assassination of Malcolm… [1994]
Jack Baxter
If Beale Street could talk [2019]
Portrait of Jason [1967]
Good hair [2010]
Chris Rock
The Express : the Ernie Davis story [2009]
John Davis
Looking for Langston [1989]
Martin Luther King : "I have a dream" [2005]
Martin Luther King
Reconstruction : America after the Civil War :… [2019]
Rob Ripley
President Barack Obama : the man and his journey [2009]
Blair Underwood
Jazz day : the making of a famous photograph [2017]
Roxane Orgill
Schomburg : the man who built a library [2017]
Red tails [2012]
Anthony Hemingway
Red tail reborn [2011]
Adam White
Paul Robeson. Icon. [2007]
Dudley Murphy
I am somebody : three films by Madeline… [2018]
Madeline Anderson
Let freedom sing : how music inspired the civil… [2009]
Jon Goodman
Underground Railroad [1998]
Alfre Woodard
February one [2003]
Rebecca Cerise
Against the odds : the artists of the Harlem… [1994]
Amber Edwards
The souls of black girls [2008]
Daphne Valerius
A good day to be black & sexy [2009]
Dennis Dortch
