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Between the World and Me

2020

The special will include powerful readings from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, it will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors' home life, archival footage, and animation.

85 min

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Why America Needs the Black Church for its Own Survival

Will the Black church become White? It sounds like a strange question. When my family watched the 2021 PBS documentary on the Black church, I noted the assumption by some of those interviewed that the Black church received its faith and theology as a part of the transatlantic slave trade.

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Charlie Dates
2021
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Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration

Nina Simone’s popular anthem from the civil rights movement speaks to both the celebrations and trials of the Black experience. Young, Gifted, and Black gives voice to the real-life stories of Black millennials and younger adults.

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Sheila Wise Rowe
2022
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Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context.

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Esau McCaulley
2020
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Caste: A Brief History of Racism, Sexism, Classism, Ageism, Homophobia, Religious Intolerance, Xenophobia, and Reasons for Hope

We have inherited a world full of humans who have been healed and hurt by other humans. There was a time, in an age before this one, when ignorance was forgivable. But that time has passed. Now is not the time for the enlightened to sneer at the brutes. Sneering hurts people.

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Press University
2024
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For the Inward Journey

The essence of Dr. Howard Thurman (1900–1981) and his thought emerges in a message of hope, reconciliation, and love.

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Howard Thurman
1984
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12:25

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: Creating a More Equitable Society Is in White Americans’ Self Interest

The best selling author of “How to Be an Antiracist” and “Antiracist Baby,” Dr. Ibram X. Kendi joins Stephen Colbert to discuss what it takes to call one’s self antiracist, and how he believes it’s in everyone’s interest to end the racist policies that cause inequality in this country.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2020
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08:21

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, Hope and Speaking Out

Ta-Nahesi Coates, a mild-mannered, even shy writer for The Atlantic, has become a celebrity intellectual as his books about race have become bestsellers.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2017
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40:57

Dr. Maria Sirois and Dr. Randy Kamen: Finding Fulfillment and Joy in Midlife

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Maria Sirois
2017
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Black Well-Being