African American/Black History

Audio recordings with transcripts of 100 oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

The result of a joint undertaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, this collection contains more than 1200 items consisting of born-digital video files, digitized videocassettes, digital photographs and full-text transcripts of oral history interviews with civil rights movement veterans.

The nation's largest African American video oral history collection

This collection, for the ear and the eye, highlights speeches by an eclectic mix of black leaders. Their impassioned, eloquent words continue to affect the ideas of a nation and the direction of history.

The recordings of former slaves took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine states. Twenty-three interviewees discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.

Health and wellness for the culture. Interviews with leading minority professionals of this current generation. Hear how they overcame adversity to attain their goals. Listen and be inspired.

Largest independent black digital radio and podcasting platform producing content of relevance to African-Americans and the African Diaspora.

Highlights the contributions of Black men and women both past and present.

Long running, nationally syndicated program dedicated to all facets of the African American experience.

Emerald Publishing staff speak to Karen Carberry, consultant Family Therapist at Orri and Ted Ransaw, from Michigan State University about inequalities in mental healthcare for black communities.

Features Black history facts, literature, and motivational stories from across the Black diaspora.

Examines the challenges facing this unique ethnic group and how its fate continues to evolve in the U.S.

Examines the challenges facing this unique ethnic group and how its fate continues to evolve in the U.S.

Written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, this six-hour series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed -- forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds.

Chronicles the history of New York's landmark performance space. What began as a refuge for marginalized artists emerged as a hallowed hall of black excellence and empowerment.

Resource and guide to the films, stories and voices across public television centered around Black history and culture.

Explore articles and videos of some of the most prominent African Americans in politics, the arts, law, science and sports who have made Black History what it is today.

Archival footage and interviews trace the history of African American newspapers and journalism from the 19th century to the Civil Rights movement.

A film that educates, informs, and examines more than 150 years of African American men and women who have embodied the qualities that are the heart of the American entrepreneurial spirit.

This program reveals a long-running struggle for racial equality starting with Civil War– and Reconstruction-era events, moving through the blight of Jim Crow and the formation of the NAACP and other groups, and depicting the drama of King’s movement in varied, evolving phases.

This documentary in the story of African Americans in France captures the plight of African American soldiers who fought in WWI, receiving the Croix de Guerre military decoration from France, while still fighting discrimination and hatred at home in America.

An all-star cast reads from a collection of letters, diaries, speeches, and military records that document and acknowledge the sacrifices and accomplishments of African Americans across four centuries of warfare.

This film was released in 1984 on the 75th anniversary of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. This historic saga chronicles the oppressive and violent era following Reconstruction, the birth of the NAACP, and its accomplishments in providing equal opportunity in housing, employment, education, and voter participation.

This four-hour series, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people-beyond the reach of the “White gaze.” Gates takes viewers into an extraordinary world that showcases Black people’s ability to collectively prosper, defy white supremacy and define Blackness in ways that transformed America itself.