Connects the massive 1963 Chicago Public Schools boycott to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism.

Examines the history of the US eugenics movement and its recent resurrection, which uses false scientific claims and holds that an all-powerful 'gene' determines who is worthy and who is not.

From the WNET series Black Journal, a tribute fllmed shortly after Malcolmn X's 1965 assassination, including an interview with his wdow, Dr. Betty Shabazz.

Pioneering athlete Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court.

A tight-knit group of friends travel to North Carolina to fight voter suppression and intent on proving that American democracy can be defended by small acts of individual citizens.

When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a Boston teacher returns home to protect the community his ancestors settled.

The life of the first black photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.

From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster.

An examination of the fiasco in Florida in the context of the history of voting rights violations.

The classic film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, one of the most significant expressions of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s