Watch our alexandria MoviestoWatch. Two artists from Alexandria, Virginia, revisit the town’s segregated past and tell the story of family, friendship, loss, and love through historical dollhouses.
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Black women had extremely limited options during Jim Crow. Odessa’s story explores how an African American woman born in a time with limited...
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An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in...
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This documentary recounts the turbulent history surrounding the troubled desegregation of New Hanover County Public School System in North Carolina...
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Clarissa Uprooted depicts the Third Ward as a microcosm of Rochester’s—and many northern US cities’—history. From...
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More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these...
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A rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently. A symbol of...
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In 2010, The Carolina Chocolate Drops stunned the music world, taking home the Traditional Folk Album Grammy for their debut album, Genuine Negro...
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Sapelo is a feature-length documentary film that journeys within a unique American island to tell the story of two young brothers, their adoptive...
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Filmmaker Risseth Yangüez Singh explores her family history while helping her grandmother move. Together, they reflect on the history of Panama,...
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A documentary about lesbians preserving their history, with a focus on the work of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Includes interviews with Joan...
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An interview with a young Toni Morrison. The video also shows Toni Morrison going shopping, at a party, and at work. Her commentary provides an...
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Musician, banjo-maker, and founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project Hannah Mayree organizes workshops and performances celebrating the banjo's...