Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Five women, members of the Sans Papiers, talk about the history and reasons for founding the organisation, as well as their most important demands,...

The real life story of the events surrounding the fight for and against public housing and racial integration in Yonkers, New York in the 1980s as...

In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska...

From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by...

The decades-long debate surrounding reparations is fraught, mired in racial tension and the semantics of restorative justice. While the national...

Before George Floyd, before Breonna Taylor, before America knew about Black Lives Matter, there was Michael Brown, Jr. On August 9th, 2014, in...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

See how New Deal-era Redlining maps delineated risk areas for federally-backed mortgages and home-ownership programs, resulting in a wealth gap that...

Eyewitness accounts recall when Klansmen attacked a bus filled with Freedom Riders in Anniston, Ala. and set it on fire.

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...

Now 93, Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and speechwriter reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an...

French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel in 1973.