Timeline 1963: April 11-13 – The Coral Gardens Bad Friday Massacre of Rastafari
TIMELINE: APRIL 11-13, 1963 The Coral Gardens Incident in Jamaica is a dark chapter in the history of the Caribbean island. It was a...
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The Ghana Grudge (Ghana vs Nigeria)
Historically, these two nations clashed due to Government implementation of extreme immigration laws that were set in bids to improv...
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Evoking the Mulatto: Beautiful Black Family
Created by Lindsay C. Harris, Evoking the Mulatto is a transmedia project exploring black mixed identity in the 21st century, throug...
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The Ruby Bridges Story 50 Years Later
Ruby Bridges made history 50 years ago. She was the first black child to attend an all white school in the south, she was just 6 yea...
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The Commandment Keepers, Black Jews
The Commandment Keepers is a feature documentary on a highly observant African American synagogue founded by Rabbi Wentworth A. Matt...
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A Present Past – Afro-Brazilian Memories in Rio de Janeiro
A Present Past highlights the strong oral tradition of slave descendants from the former plantations of the Souza Breves family, in...
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Memories of Captivity
Memories of Captivity (2005, directed by Guilherme Fernandez and Isabel Castro) is the first filmic experience of Hebe Mattos and Ma...
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Jongos, Calangos and Folias: Black Music, Memory and Poetry
The film Jongos, Calangos and Folias: Black Music, Memory and Poetry is a historiographical documentary made from the audiovisual ar...
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