Videos

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black talked about Harriet Tubman’s role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against Confederates in South Carolina wh…

Photojournalist Devin Allen talked about his coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the inspiration that came from Gordon Parks, who photophraphed an earlier generation of civil rig…

Tufts University historian Kerri Greenidge talked about the Grimke family and the Black children fathered by the slave-holding older brother of the well-known abolitionist sisters, Sarah and…

Rutgers University history professor Rachel Devlin looked at the desegregation of American public schools through the actions of young women throughout the country.

Jessie Morgan-Owens talked about her book, Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement, in which she recounted the life of Mary Mildred Williams, a…

Janet Dewart Bell provided a history of African American women in the Civil Rights Movement.

Mychal Smith talked about his book, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, A Young Black Man’s Education, about his life and political education as a young black man in America.