Tag: racial segregation

Nickel Boys

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating...

James Brown: Say It Loud

Traces the incredible trajectory of Brown’s life and career from...

Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation

How Chicago and its suburbs helped devise the nation’s most...

The Walk

In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure...

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles...

Racist Trees

Can a tree be racist? A few years ago, debate...

The Shadow of the Day

Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano,...

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One Night in Miami...

In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston...

Journey into Gaza

“In Gaza you have to get there in the evening,...

Black Thoughts

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy...

Amend: The Fight for America

Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal,...

Churchill: Britain's Secret Apartheid

When Winston Churchill needed the help of the US Army...

Ku Klux Klan: An American Story

Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the...

Ernest and Célestine, The Collection

The adventures of a big offbeat bear and a mischievous...

Voice of Freedom

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to...

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist...

I Am Richard Pryor

The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer...

Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening

How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become...

The Jazz Ambassadors

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable...

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Hidden Figures

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and...

Hairspray Live!

A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s...

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

A landmark four-part series exploring segregation from the end of...