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Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
As communism tightened its grip on what was once South Vietnam, a stream of refugees poured into America. This program uses poignant interviews and archival footage to reveal the fortitude of Vietnamese who faced the gravest hardships in their escape to the U.S. following the fall of Saigon. In addition, Vu-Duc Vuong, of the University of California, Berkeley, and South Vietnamese and American veterans give their firsthand views on the Vietnam War,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, while young black adults were getting to grips with the struggle for black power and a long fightback against police abuse was starting, the majority of West Indian migrants were keeping their heads down. They were working hard and counting on providing better opportunities and education for their children. However, in a white-dominated country, where the politics were becoming increasingly racialized, there was a question of how society,...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With humor and sensitivity, filmmaker and comedian W. Kamau Bell tackles the joys and challenges of growing up mixed-race through conversations with kids and families in the San Francisco Bay Area, including his own. Recognizing that his children, born to a Black father and White mother, and growing up in a country still deeply divided by race, would have very different experiences in America than he and his wife did, embarks on a journey of discovery...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Decades of segregation, discrimination and lack of access have led to an alarming disparity: Black children today drown in swimming pools at a rate far higher than that of white children, studies have shown. Now new programs are working to overcome barriers and get everybody into the pool.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ten years afterSkin Deep, a new documentary film chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of college students—in this case, led by veteran UC Berkeley facilitators over the course of a semester—as they confront race, diversity, and their own responsibility for making a difference.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
At the center of this documentary is a traumatic, racist experience. Through confronting this event, documentarian Pirooz Kalayeh confronts the lasting effects of racism on an individual and opens up a dialog about discrimination and developing better tools to communicate about and address it.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The murder of George Floyd changed the world. As protests erupted everywhere, one group traveled to Minnesota to stand in solidarity with the families of those impacted by police violence. They reached out to politicians and invited them to grieve with the community. For several days nobody came, but what these men would accomplish was a surprise even to them.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
There is no such thing as being "not racist," says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Learn how you can actively use this awareness to uproot injustice and inequality in the world -- and replace it with love. (This virtual interview,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Historians explain some common early views that the Europeans and the Aboriginal people had of one another. Some Aboriginal people thought that the Europeans were ghosts, and some Europeans thought that the Aboriginal people were savages. Despite early mutual curiosity, conflicting views about land use and laws eventually led to Aboriginal dispossession of land and the assimilation policies of the Federation.
32) Reversal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A social-drama set in an alternate timeline where caucasians are the racially oppressed minority, Reversal follows the romance of two high school students: Sammy and Ella, one from a rich African-American family, and the other from poor white trash. Both Sammy and Ella overcome prejudice and bullying from the dysfunctional families and environments and bring with them a little bit of change.
33) Ferguson Rises
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
How does a father find purpose in his pain? In 2014, Michael Brown Sr.’s son was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, an event that fueled the global Black Lives Matter movement. But his personal story seeking justice and healing has not been told until now.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Exploring the present catharsis following the death of George Floyd, we dive into how the current uprising is impacting communities, and how we can contribute to discussions about racial justice reform. This remix of the 2015 A Conversation about Race series is a vibrant collage of people’s lives and experiences, which powerfully frame and illustrate the reckoning that is happening around us.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Charting the period between 1961 and 1971, this is a searing account of how members of the British Black Power movement challenged police oppression and political prejudice. At the heart of the documentary is a series of astonishing interviews with past activists, many of whom are speaking for the first time about what it was really like to be involved in the British Black Power movement, bringing to life one of the key cultural revolutions in the...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ashley Banjo explores issues of race and racism in Britain, after a disturbingly hostile public reaction to his televised anti-racism dance routine. It isn’t the reaction Ashley was expecting. Suddenly thrust into the political spotlight, the popular performer from British dance troupe Diversity is forced to re-examine his own relationship with race, as well as the history of racism in Britain. In search of context and clarity, Ashley talks to veterans...
38) Back to Natural
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This is a powerful documentary that provides a historical look at the global policing of black bodies. The multi-award winning film provides audiences with a complex understanding of the ways in which race, identity, and hair are all related, and offers a compassionate view point on issues that impact African descendants’ sense of self and the often unknown barriers society places on one’s ability to simply exist.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"I have a dream," Martin Luther King Jr. told a crowd of some 250,000 people at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, "that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." For centuries, slavery and racial segregation pervaded much of America. As a result of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, however, which King helped lead,...
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