Category: Videos

  • “Roots Germania” A Personal Search for Identity (Film Screening and Panel Discussion) The German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Thursday, 2011-08-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) RSVP (acceptances only) by August 12, 2011 Telephone: 202-387-3355, FAX: 202-387-6437 E-Mail: events@ghi-dc.org The Grimme award nominated documentary “Roots Germania” was directed by Mo Asumang, the…

  • Long Lance National Film Board of Canada 1986 Running Time: 00:55:00 Bernie Dichek, Director Was he a black man, a white man, or an Indian chief? This documentary looks at legendary and fascinating impostor Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant…

  • Maroon – On the Trail of Creoles in North America National Film Board of Canada 2005 Running Time: 01:15:08 André Gladu, Director Colette Loumède, Producer Louisiana’s Creole culture helped shape the New World and contributed to the emergence of jazz. But what remains of this unique, mixed-race society, with roots in France, Africa, the Caribbean,…

  • The Love Story That Made Marriage a Fundamental Right Color Lines 2011-04-27 Asraa Mustufa The Tribeca Film Festival is under way in New York, and one featured documentary delves into the story behind the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia, which struck down Jim Crow laws meant to prevent people from openly building families…

  • Interracial Relationships and Loving v. Virginia CityLine Boston WCVB Boston 2011-06-15 Karen Holmes Ward, Director of Public Affairs and Community Services; Host and Executive Producer of CityLine Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ken Tanabe, President and Founder LovingDay.org Dr. Dawkins discusses the ongoing impact of interracial romantic relationships, multiracial identities and passing in…

  • Seeking Participants for a Multiracial Documentary We are in production on a documentary that looks into the subject of multiracial individuals. The director is an award winning filmmaker who has written on the multiracial issue in the Los Angeles Times. He is multiracial himself. This documentary will not repeat the multiracial clichés of the past and…

  • The Loving Story Silverdocs Documentary Festival (2011-06-20 through 2011-06-26) Silver Spring, Maryland Augusta Films, LLC 2011 77 minutes Thursday, 2011-06-23, 14:45 EDT (Local Time) Friday, 2011-06-24, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Official Website: www.lovingfilm.com Director and Producer: Nancy Buirski Producer and Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James Screenwriters: Nancy Buirski and Susie Ruth Powell Mildred and Richard Loving,…

  • Bill Moyers interview with Patricial Willilams and Melissa Harris-Lacewell Bill Moyers Journal 2009-01-23 Bill Moyers, Host Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Melissa Harris-Lacewell (Harris-Perry), Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies Princeton University Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics…

  • The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White [Discussion] Lillian Goldman Law Library Yale University 2011-03-07 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Moderator: Claire Priest, Professor of Law Yale University The Lillian Goldman Law Library together with the Yale Law School Legal History Forum and the Yale…

  • In Their Own Words with Michele Elam The Human Experience: inside the humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-15 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University  In this installment of “In Their Own Words” English professor Michele Elam discusses her latest research, which…