“A Nigger in Northface” off Legit’s (@chicagolives) mixtape “Coloring Outside The Lines”.
Recommended by a student. In DJ Academe’s opinion, the visual story of a violent reaction to interracial dating is unsettling, and not the way it was intended. Racism still provokes violence, to be sure, but out of a 21st century middle-class white man? His racism is likely to be more subtle, and we run the risk of ignoring those subtleties when focusing on extreme examples. This sounds like a good debate for class…
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a 90 minute documentary that challenges one of America’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Premiering February 13 on PBS.
National History Day documentary on Bull Connor, Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety, whose use of police dogs and fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators dramatically backfired and called national attention to the Civil Rights Movement.
In 1960, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in restaurants and bus terminals serving interstate travel, but African-Americans who tried to sit in the “whites only” section risked injury or even death at the hands of white mobs. In May of 1961, groups of black and white civil rights activists set out together to change all that.
REPORTAGE : Brazil is one of the most racially-mixed countries on the planet: half the population has African origins. Yet black and mixed-race people suffer discrimination. Many are fighting for better recognition of this “invisible majority”.
Alex Alonso discussing the Black and Brown conflict in 2002 while doing gang territory research in Compton while a film crew follows him. Compton Varrio Tortilla Flats and Fruit Town Pirus, a Blood gangs have been involved in a violent clash that started in 1998 that left over two dozen murdered. Other part of Los Angeles have been seeing similar racial challenges.
