African American & Africana Studies

https://vimeo.com/347364300
A MAN AND HIS TRUMPET: The Leroy Jones Story
There are millions of musicians in the world, but there’s only one Leroy Jones
https://vimeo.com/466756881
A PLACE TO BREATHE
explores the universality of trauma, resilience, and healing in immigrant communities
https://vimeo.com/359359993
ALWAYS IN SEASON
After 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging in North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins - centuries of trauma and lynching bleed into the present
https://vimeo.com/73748800
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY
The life of Chinese-American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs
https://vimeo.com/122786419
BORN THIS WAY
Risking everything — gays and lesbians in Cameroon
https://vimeo.com/293427422
CRIME + PUNISHMENT
Unprecedented examination of the United States' most powerful police department
https://vimeo.com/334762755
DECADE OF FIRE
The South Bronx is burning. Stay, fight, build.
https://vimeo.com/388038910
EARTH WATER WOMAN
A Rastafarian woman in the Caribbean sparks an environmental movement
https://vimeo.com/112190350
EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL
One Black man's journey from straight-A student to bank robber — and back
https://vimeo.com/275941924
FATHER'S KINGDOM
He changed the course of civil rights in this country and you never heard his name
https://vimeo.com/390097098
HUNGRY TO LEARN
THE HIGHEST COST OF COLLEGE MIGHT BE YOUR HEALTH
https://vimeo.com/514425779
LOS HERMANOS/THE BROTHERS
A nuanced view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family
https://vimeo.com/228422972
MANY LOVES, ONE HEART
LGBTQ activism in Jamaica and the struggle for human rights
https://vimeo.com/275912050
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire class to college
https://vimeo.com/453351461
RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT
GENERATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MENTORS EMPOWER YOUTH THROUGH ANCESTRAL ART & CULTURE
SERENADE FOR HAITI
SERENADE FOR HAITI
A classical music school in the heart of Port-au-Prince becomes a refuge of hope
https://vimeo.com/558252741
SOFT VENGEANCE: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
A film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter, set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa
https://vimeo.com/589095545
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
Amidst the rise of “English-only” initiatives, four diverse American students in language immersion schools open their minds to new ways of thinking
https://vimeo.com/283361065
THE CORRIDOR
Inside the nation’s first high school in an adult jail
https://vimeo.com/412933976
THE FIRST RAINBOW COALITION
In a city determined to keep them apart, they dared to unite.
https://vimeo.com/270559689
THE PUSHOUTS
People call them "Dropouts." They tell a different story.
https://vimeo.com/251373186
THE S WORD
A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find fellow survivors
https://vimeo.com/310435279
TIME FOR ILHAN
One woman’s quest to become the first Somali Muslim lawmaker in the United States
https://vimeo.com/390097400
UNSETTLED: Seeking Refuge in America
LGBT refugees and asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East fleeing persecution to seek better and safer lives in the U.S.
https://vimeo.com/349813970
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE NOW?
Six Stories. Seventeen Years. The Spiritual Journeys of American Millennials.
https://vimeo.com/390630701
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
The religious lives of American teenagers
https://vimeo.com/433816418
WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE
what it means to be young, Black, and Democrat in the American South
https://vimeo.com/497452663
WOMEN IN BLUE
Female officers in the Minneapolis Police Department fight for gender equity and police reform from the inside