BMA: Black Media Archive show

BMA: Black Media Archive

Summary: The Black Media Archive is a multi-media collection of African and African-American history, including speeches, archival video, movies, music, and more. It exists as a central resource of Black history in multi-media formats.

Podcasts:

 Episode 275: Bill Cosby | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:00:42

This episode is a classic 1970s anti-drug public service announcement featuring Bill Cosby.

 Episode 274: "The Bill Cosby Show" | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 5:04

This episode is part of a 1969 TV special designed to make viewers excited for the 1969-1970 NBC Television Network schedule. Included in this clip are "The Bill Cosby Show" and "The Bold Ones" starring Leslie Nielsen and Hari Rhodes.

 Episode 274: "The Bill Cosby Show" | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:05:04

This episode is part of a 1969 TV special designed to make viewers excited for the 1969-1970 NBC Television Network schedule. Included in this clip are "The Bill Cosby Show" and "The Bold Ones" starring Leslie Nielsen and Hari Rhodes.

 Episode 273: "Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States " | File Type: application/pdf | Duration: Unknown
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The Civil War began 150 years ago in April 1861. In September 1861, in an attempt to raise money for sick and wounded soldiers, the Census Office produced and sold this map that showed the population distribution of slaves in the southern United States. Based on data from the 1860 census, this map was the Census Office's first attempt to map population density.

 Episode 273: "Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States " | File Type: application/pdf | Duration: 00:00:00
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The Civil War began 150 years ago in April 1861. In September 1861, in an attempt to raise money for sick and wounded soldiers, the Census Office produced and sold this map that showed the population distribution of slaves in the southern United States. Based on data from the 1860 census, this map was the Census Office's first attempt to map population density.

 Episode 272: Mabel Williams | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:32

This episode is part of an interview with civil rights activist Mabel Williams, wife of Robert Williams discussing their lives in Monroe, North Carolina. (August 20, 1999) Mabel Williams paints a vivid picture of segregated Monroe, North Carolina, detailing the subjugation that ate away at African Americans' sense of self. Among those who resisted was Williams's husband, Robert, the descendant of a long line of assertive African Americans, who slept with a pearl-handled revolver under his pillow. Williams remembers Robert for much of this interview, describing how his militant, assertive conviction in racial equality clashed with the rigid segregationist mentality in Monroe. Unable to assimilate in the way that many African Americans did, Robert earned the ire of white city fathers, who prevented him from finding employment in a quest to injure him and his family and undermine his masculinity. The local newspaper stopped printing his letters, one of his only safety valves for expressing the frustrations that gave him migraine headaches. But these efforts at stifling Robert's activism failed; he only grew more determined to resist white supremacy, arming himself and training fellow African Americans in armed self-defense. Guns became an important part of the Williamses' lives, whether on Robert's hip or on the seat of the car next to Mabel.

 Episode 272: Mabel Williams | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:43:32

This episode is part of an interview with civil rights activist Mabel Williams, wife of Robert Williams discussing their lives in Monroe, North Carolina. (August 20, 1999) Mabel Williams paints a vivid picture of segregated Monroe, North Carolina, detailing the subjugation that ate away at African Americans' sense of self. Among those who resisted was Williams's husband, Robert, the descendant of a long line of assertive African Americans, who slept with a pearl-handled revolver under his pillow. Williams remembers Robert for much of this interview, describing how his militant, assertive conviction in racial equality clashed with the rigid segregationist mentality in Monroe. Unable to assimilate in the way that many African Americans did, Robert earned the ire of white city fathers, who prevented him from finding employment in a quest to injure him and his family and undermine his masculinity. The local newspaper stopped printing his letters, one of his only safety valves for expressing the frustrations that gave him migraine headaches. But these efforts at stifling Robert's activism failed; he only grew more determined to resist white supremacy, arming himself and training fellow African Americans in armed self-defense. Guns became an important part of the Williamses' lives, whether on Robert's hip or on the seat of the car next to Mabel.

 Episode 271: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:49

On March 31, 1968, only four days before he was to be assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this sermon titled, "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

 Episode 271: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:46:49

On March 31, 1968, only four days before he was to be assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this sermon titled, "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

 Episode 270: "Basin Street Revue" | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 40:31

This episode is the musical variety show "Basin Street Revue" (1956) filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers including Nipsey Russell, Lionel Hampton, Sarah Vaughn, Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers, Martha Davis and Her Spouse, Mantan Moreland, Amos Milburn, Faye Adams, The Clovers, Coles and Atkins, Herb Jeffries, and Cab Calloway. All hosted by Apollo Theatre emcee Willie Bryant.

 Episode 270: "Basin Street Revue" | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:40:31

This episode is the musical variety show "Basin Street Revue" (1956) filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers including Nipsey Russell, Lionel Hampton, Sarah Vaughn, Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers, Martha Davis and Her Spouse, Mantan Moreland, Amos Milburn, Faye Adams, The Clovers, Coles and Atkins, Herb Jeffries, and Cab Calloway. All hosted by Apollo Theatre emcee Willie Bryant.

 Episode 269: Paul Robeson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 11:46

This episode is a collection of three songs performed by concert singer, attorney, athlete, actor, and activist Paul Robeson. Included in his trademark baritone are the recordings of the songs "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (1925), and perhaps his most famous recording "Ol Man River" and "I Still Suits Me" (recorded with Hattie McDaniel) from the 1936 film "Show Boat".

 Episode 269: Paul Robeson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:11:46

This episode is a collection of three songs performed by concert singer, attorney, athlete, actor, and activist Paul Robeson. Included in his trademark baritone are the recordings of the songs "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (1925), and perhaps his most famous recording "Ol Man River" and "I Still Suits Me" (recorded with Hattie McDaniel) from the 1936 film "Show Boat".

 Episode 268: "The Emperor Jones" (part 2) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 38:35

Movie: The conclusion of the 1933 film adaptation of "The Emperor Jones". Starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, an unscrupulously ambitious man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and cunningly sets himself up as emperor.

 Episode 268: "The Emperor Jones" (part 2) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:38:35

Movie: The conclusion of the 1933 film adaptation of "The Emperor Jones". Starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, an unscrupulously ambitious man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and cunningly sets himself up as emperor.

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