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AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
The quintessential video collection on African American life, history, literature and culture.

PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP PICKS
Public librarians have reported that the following African American Perspectives videos are most in demand by patrons:

Alex Haley: An interview with and portrait of the author
Big Mama: the struggles of an elderly grandmother to raise her orphaned grandson
Black Is...Black Ain't: What is black? Too black? Not black enough?
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the racial divide
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime time television
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Freedom on My Mind: The black freedom struggle in Mississippi
Frosh: Student life in the '90's
Goin’ to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Legacy: Breaking the cycle of welfare dependency
Nuyorican Dream: A Puerto Rican family in the Bronx battles drugs, the prison industry, and a host of illnesses and social obstacles on a daily basis.
Oh Freedom After While: The Saga of the 1939 Sharecroppers Strike
Out of Obscurity: A look at when freedom was overdue at the library. Actors recreate a historic sit-in in this documentary narrated by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond
A Question of Color: Healing racism's hidden wounds
Richard Wright : Black Boy
The Road to Brown: The man who killed Jim Crow
We Shall Overcome: The song that moved a nation
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The music, the women, the legacy

(Please see also our Library of African Cinema Public Library Starter Collection and our Sixties videos)