https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/black-history-videos?format=feed Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:57:59 +0000 MYOB en-us https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=story-of-18th-century-black-aristocrats https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=story-of-18th-century-black-aristocrats Story of prominent people of African and mixed heritage who lived in Britain or France in the 18th Century.

]]> Black History Tue, 04 Dec 2001 07:52:00 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=billie-holiday-s-strange-fruit-lyrics https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=billie-holiday-s-strange-fruit-lyrics Strange Fruit profound song Billie Holiday very bravely performed under grave threats and at high personal cost about the lynching of African Americans in the Southern United States during the Jim Crow Era.

]]> Black History Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:32:17 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=pbs-four-part-series-the-black-church https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=pbs-four-part-series-the-black-church Video PBS four-part series 'The Black Church' This “Our Story” sweeping history of religion, politics and culture

]]> Black History Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:32:17 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=mr-soul-virtual-cinema-release-aug-28-2020 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=mr-soul-virtual-cinema-release-aug-28-2020 Mr. SOUL! Virtual Cinema Release launches on Aug. 28,2020 Screening cinemas near you

]]> Black History Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:16:52 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=delta-hill-riders https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=delta-hill-riders Delta Hill Riders, photographer Rory Doyle takes us inside the often overlooked black cowboy culture within the Mississippi Delta, challenging one of America's greatest myths surrounding the Wild West.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=kobe-bryant-s-oscar-for-animated-short-film https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=kobe-bryant-s-oscar-for-animated-short-film In 2018, Bryant became the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his film Dear Basketball.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=42-years-delbert-orr-africa-finally-walked-free https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=42-years-delbert-orr-africa-finally-walked-free Delbert Orr Africa finally walked free from Pennsylvania's state prison after serving over four decades for a crime he insists he did not commit, making him the eighth of nine Black Liberation MOVE members to be released or have died in prison.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=the-negro-sailor https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=the-negro-sailor Emphasizes integration, advancement based on ability, equal treatment, and team work in the Navy.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=the-negro-soldier https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=the-negro-soldier The army used this film as propaganda to convince Black Americans to enlist in the army and fight in the war.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=the-titanic-s-only-black-family https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=the-titanic-s-only-black-family The only known Ethnic, African American, Haitian, Multi Racial family on the Titanic...and their tragic story in 1912.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=first-black-senator-and-representatives https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=first-black-senator-and-representatives The 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States. Reconstruction saw the election of an African American senator, Hiram Revels of Mississippi, and several members of the House from the South.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=self-guided-driving-tour-underground-railroad-byway https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=self-guided-driving-tour-underground-railroad-byway Follow in the the footsteps of Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad Byway. Download the free driving tour guide.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=michelle-alexander-s-the-new-jim-crow https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=michelle-alexander-s-the-new-jim-crow Police disproportionately search young black men, and are much more likely to imprison them for nonviolent drug offenses. On release, they often can’t find work because of stringent background checks. This process deprives black Americans of their rights as effectively as the segregation laws the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s fought to overturn.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=discover-your-roots-using-the-freedmen-s-bureau-records https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=discover-your-roots-using-the-freedmen-s-bureau-records 1865 and 1872 constitute the richest and most extensive documentary source available for investigating the African American experience in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=the-new-jim-crow-museum https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=the-new-jim-crow-museum Tour the Jim Crow museum with founder and curator, Dr. David Pilgrim. Dr. Pilgrim discusses some of the major themes of the Jim Crow Museum. Jim Crow was not just a character or a set of "laws", it was a system that built upon itself to create and sustain a society with a racial hierarchy.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=lynching-in-america-bryan-stevenson https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=lynching-in-america-bryan-stevenson Equal Justice Initiative believes that in order to heal the wounds from our present, we must face our past. Our history of racial terror casts a shadow across the U.S. landscape. We must engage it more honestly.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=wessyngton-plantation-a-family-s-road-to-freedom https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=wessyngton-plantation-a-family-s-road-to-freedom The culmination of more than thirty years of research, it details the lives of hundreds of his family members. Baker spent decades combing through countless family and state archives, researching birth and death records, and conducting dozens of interviews with relatives and historians.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=5-generations-from-enslavement-to-public-service-in-atlanta https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=5-generations-from-enslavement-to-public-service-in-atlanta By exploring genealogy, family lore, and historic documentation, viewers will become familiar with various historical philanthropic, educational, and political institutions within Atlanta’s African American communities through the lens of the women in one multi-generational family.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=gadsden-s-wharf-international-african-american-museum https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=gadsden-s-wharf-international-african-american-museum Gadsden's Wharf; the spot where the greatest number of Africans who came to America took their very first steps on continental USA.

]]> Black History Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:23 +0000 https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=kwanzaa-is-for-all-racial-backgrounds https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php?option=com_allvideoshare&view=video&slg=kwanzaa-is-for-all-racial-backgrounds Kwanzaa is unaffiliated with a major religion. Kwanzaa marks a time for African Americans to reflect on their heritage, their community and their connection to Africa.

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