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VIRTUAL CINEMA: Mr. SOUL! launches on Aug. 28th! Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip ensures the Revolution will be televised, with SOUL!, America's first "Black Tonight Show." A Film by Melissa Haizlip @mrsoulthemovie Read More
 
A Special Report from 11Alive News in Atlanta chronicles the life of a man who was unafraid to shake the status quo and seek to cause "good trouble" for the sake of justice and the humanity - for all.
 
January 3, 1987 – July 17, 2020 As a young child, Lewis had little interaction with white people; by the time he was six, Lewis had seen only two white people in his life. He organized sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Nashville and took part in many other civil rights activities as part of the Nashville Student Movement. United States...
 
The film explores Georgia representative's, 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. John Lewis: Good Trouble
 
Alex Haley is the author of Roots, a best selling novel which was adapted into a hugely popular TV mini-series in 1977. It tells the story of a young African who is captured and sold into slavery in America. In this clip, Haley talks about recreating the trip a slave took and how it nearly brought him to suicide.
 
Retired Navy SEAL David Goggins sits down with All Hands Magazine for an interview about his time in service - from his days as an Air Force TACP, to a Navy SEAL.
 
2008 documentary produced by UCF students about Jesse L. Brown, the first African American fighter pilot. The film is now part of the Library of Congress collection.
 
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, transported to North America; following his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley.
 
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings lies in state outside the House chamber where he served for 23 years.

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