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.
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This episode features a Christmas performance by the beautiful contralto Marian Anderson. Recorded in 1944, Ms. Anderson performs "Ave Maria" accompanied by the Westminster Choir led by Leopold Stokowski and the US Army orchestra.
On November 23, 1939, Mary McLeod Bethune - a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and a director of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration - took part in a panel discussion as part of NBC radio's weekly public affairs broadcast "America's Town Meeting of the Air". The panelists addressed the question, "What does American democracy mean to me?" With her Victorian elocution and a thunderous tone, Bethune reminded her listeners that African Americans had always been willing to die for American democracy but were still shut out from its promise of freedom.
On November 23, 1939, Mary McLeod Bethune - a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and a director of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration - took part in a panel discussion as part of NBC radio's weekly public affairs broadcast "America's Town Meeting of the Air". The panelists addressed the question, "What does American democracy mean to me?" With her Victorian elocution and a thunderous tone, Bethune reminded her listeners that African Americans had always been willing to die for American democracy but were still shut out from its promise of freedom.
Movie: The conclusion of "Body and Soul" (1925) a silent "race film" produced, written, directed, and distributed by the filmmaking pioneer Oscar Micheaux and starring a 27-year-old Paul Robeson in his motion picture debut. In the film Robeson portrays a minister, malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.
Movie: The conclusion of "Body and Soul" (1925) a silent "race film" produced, written, directed, and distributed by the filmmaking pioneer Oscar Micheaux and starring a 27-year-old Paul Robeson in his motion picture debut. In the film Robeson portrays a minister, malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.
Movie: "Body and Soul" (1925) is a silent "race film" produced, written, directed, and distributed by the filmmaking pioneer Oscar Micheaux and starring a 27-year-old Paul Robeson in his motion picture debut. In the film Robeson portrays a minister, malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.
Movie: "Body and Soul" (1925) is a silent "race film" produced, written, directed, and distributed by the filmmaking pioneer Oscar Micheaux and starring a 27-year-old Paul Robeson in his motion picture debut. In the film Robeson portrays a minister, malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.
In this episode, Reverend Jeremiah Wright delivers a sermon titled "How God Uses Music". This sermon was devilered in 2006 at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.
In this episode, Reverend Jeremiah Wright delivers a sermon titled "How God Uses Music". This sermon was devilered in 2006 at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.
On May 17, 1957 in Washington, D.C. hoping to prod the federal government to fulfill the promise of the three-year-old Brown v. Board of Education decision, national civil rights leaders called for a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Speaking last, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave this speech titled "Give Us the Ballot".
On May 17, 1957 in Washington, D.C. hoping to prod the federal government to fulfill the promise of the three-year-old Brown v. Board of Education decision, national civil rights leaders called for a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Speaking last, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave this speech titled "Give Us the Ballot".
Movie: In the 1942 film "Lucky Ghost" F.E. Miller and Mantan Moreland star as two down-on-their luck friends who suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice. They wind up in a sanitarium that's being used as an exclusive, though illegal, gambling club and get mixed up with beautiful women, jealous gangsters and ghosts.
Movie: In the 1942 film "Lucky Ghost" F.E. Miller and Mantan Moreland star as two down-on-their luck friends who suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice. They wind up in a sanitarium that's being used as an exclusive, though illegal, gambling club and get mixed up with beautiful women, jealous gangsters and ghosts.
In this episode author, economist, political analyst, and social commentator Dr. Boyce Watkins delivers a lecture at Kansas City Kansas Community College on the subject "The Importance of a College Education". This lecture was recorded on February 21, 2008.
In this episode author, economist, political analyst, and social commentator Dr. Boyce Watkins delivers a lecture at Kansas City Kansas Community College on the subject "The Importance of a College Education". This lecture was recorded on February 21, 2008.