In 2002, a UC Santa Cruz college with the theme of social justice and community opened with distinguished professors, politically engaged students, and a number for a name: College Ten.That changed for good, and for better, in 2023 when Colle

How the Black Church Built Electoral Power

Apr 24th, 2021 57m 46s

Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner and U.S. Representative Barbara Lee speak from the heart about how the Black Church has helped to build African American electoral power. It’s a powerful story with practical lessons for present times. Dr. Williams-

Deep Soul: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World with Waldo Martin

Jan 15th, 2020 1h 28m

Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles transformed both US and World History. These seminal liberation struggles include the important yet relatively unknown series of early twentieth-century southern African American streetcar bo

The Central Park Five with Anthony Davis

Jan 1st, 2020 54m 36s

Opera News has called UC San Diego Music Professor Anthony Davis A National Treasure, for his pioneering work in opera. His six operas include works centered on recent historical figures & events, including Malcolm X and Patty Hearst. Davis' l

Gifts of the Storyteller with Brenda Stevenson - UCLA Faculty Research Lecture

Dec 19th, 2019 59m 5s

UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful moments and eras. Because there is not much in the way of documentary evidence of the lives of women of color, enslaved women a

Prison Abolition and a Mule with Paul Butler

Dec 4th, 2019 1h 34m

By virtually any measure, prisons have not worked. They are sites of cruelty, dehumanization, and violence, as well as subordination by race, class, and gender. Prisons traumatize virtually all who come into contact with them. Abolition of pris

An Evening with Nnedi Okorafor - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2019

Mar 26th, 2019 58m 10s

More recently known for her Black Panther and Wakanda Forever Marvel Comics, Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Born in the Unite

Peter Biggs - Former Slave to Pioneering African American Entrepreneur in 19th Century Los Angeles

Feb 14th, 2019 59m 1s

Peter Biggs experienced the transition from slavery to freedom a decade before the outbreak of the Civil War. Jarred Webb portrays the historical figure who lived in Los Angeles and was one of only twelve people in Los Angeles marked 'Black' on

Charles Mingus and Tijuana Moods - Helen Edison Lecture Series

Feb 12th, 2018 57m 20s

One of the most important composers in jazz history, Charles Mingus documented his lively impressions of Tijuana in "Tijuana Moods," a rarely performed suite. Join Grammy-winning jazz author Ashley Kahn; eminent alto saxophonist Charles McPhers

Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings and the Burden of Slavery with Annette Gordon-Reed - Conversations with History

Nov 14th, 2016 54m 20s

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed for a discussion of her work as a lawyer/historian focusing on the contradictions in the life of Thomas Jefferson. Topics covered in the conversation include how h

The Road Forward: The Future of Black Education in the 21st Century

Jul 6th, 2015 59m 31s

UCSB faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students discuss what we have learned over the last six years from research about what worked in stimulating achievement among Black children and what challenges African American learners face. Keynote

Tomorrow’s Leaders: Building on the Legacy of Selma with Myrlie Evers-Williams -- Helen Edison Lecture Series

Jun 1st, 2015 49m 40s

From the moment Myrlie Evers-Williams faced the murder of her husband, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, she became a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement. For more than five decades, she has fought to carry on his legacy, never relent

Harlem Hellfighters: Jazz Goes to War - Lytle Memorial Concert

May 22nd, 2015 1h 13m

Jazz made its path abroad in 1918 during the “Great War” when one black officer, Lt. James Reese Europe, volunteered for service with members of his Harlem Society Orchestra, forming the 369th Regimental Band. Because the U.S. Army did not all

Gerald Horne: Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

Apr 20th, 2015 56m 31s

Former UCSB professor Gerald Horne, the award-winning author of more than thirty books, discusses his book “The Counter-Revolution of 1776” which argues that for the country's forefathers, "freedom" meant the right to keep others enslaved—and t

Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling with Jack Glaser and Paul Figueroa -- In the Living Room with Henry E. Brady - UC Public Policy Channel

Feb 2nd, 2015 53m 55s

Social psychologist and author Jack Glaser makes a compelling case against racial profiling in law enforcement, arguing that it’s not only wrong, but can lead to more crimes being committed by non-profiled groups in this timely conversation on

Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling with Jack Glaser and Paul Figueroa -- In the Living Room with Henry E. Brady UC Public Policy Channel

Jan 30th, 2015 53m 55s

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

Jan 13th, 2014 36m 48s

Angela Davis visited UC Santa Barbara for a screening of "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners," a documentary by Shola Lynch that chronicles Davis's life as a young, outspoken UCLA professor. Angela Davis and producer Sidra Smith answer que

And the Children Shall Lead: Addressing Disparities - LeNoir - NMA Pediatric Lecture

Mar 7th, 2013 37m 55s

Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA, Associate Professor of Medicine, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School, examines the role that children have played in advancing civil rights and justice and how that struggle imp

Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America

Feb 6th, 2012 58m 30s

MSNBC commentator, columnist for The Nation, and Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, where she serves as founding director of the Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South, Melissa Harris-Perry examines black women’s p

Black Nature: The First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets

May 10th, 2010 1h 24m

Join contributors to “Black Nature,” the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille Dungy and Al Young. They read from their work an

Bunche Center 40th Anniversary Retrospective: Adjustment and Revisions: 1986 - Present

Mar 8th, 2010 59m 30s

Celebrate forty years of the Bunche Center with key individuals who were instrumental in shaping the Center’s legacy. Part two explores the later year of adjustment sand revision from 1986 to the present. Speakers include former UCLA administra

Bunche Center 40th Anniversary Retrospective: Emergence and Institutionalization: 1969 – 1985

Mar 1st, 2010 58m 30s

Celebrate forty years of the Bunche Center with key individuals who were instrumental in shaping the Center’s legacy. Part one the early years of the center and its emergence and institutionalization from 1969 to 1985. Speakers include former

Civil Rights: The Music and the Movement

Apr 27th, 2009 57m 43s

Dr. Milmon Harrison, African American and African Studies, and singer Mavis Staples consider the role of music in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. Series: "Mondavi Center Presents" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 16082]

Laura Pulido: Black Brown Yellow and Left

Oct 13th, 2008 50m

Author Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on the Black Panther Party, El Centro de Accin Social y Autonomo (CASA), and East Wind, a Japanese American collective, s

Lunch Poems: Amiri Baraka

Apr 14th, 2008 26m

Revolutionary poet, playwright, and activist Amiri Baraka is recognized as the founder of the Black Arts Movement, a literary period that began in Harlem in the 1960s and forever changed the look, sound, and feel of American poetry. Series: "Lu