Black Family
Here are titles, which through the exploration of sometimes-controversial themes and characters highlight the contemporary state of the black family. These are the stories of places and people often left out of the grand conversation to the detriment of all of society. Mostly though, these are the stories of journeys to and from home, stories that are first universal in documenting that one thing we all have in common, a communal, ancestral, link with others of like history. These titles define and redefine the boundaries of the black family, and are selected to engender conversations on our concepts of the black family and the historical circumstances that cast on our ideals varying degrees of shadow and light.
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Channel: Black Family
A Doula Story 56 mins
Loretha Weisinger, a doula (mid-wife) and counselor, helps young teen mothers experience their pregnancies with a little hope and humor.
A Place Of Our Own 60 mins
In this cinematic love song to place and identity, director Stanley Nelson explores the rarely seen world of the black middle class and the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, where African Americans have vacationed for generations.
Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption In America 56mins
An exploration of transracial adoption in America through the stories of three mixed-race familes.
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The Ghosts of John Jay 4mins 30secs
A short documentary exploring from a student perspective the truth about a seemingly notorious high school in Brooklyn, New York.
Taxi (2008) 6mins 31secs
Filmmaker Javan Cornelius explores race in a very modern context - the back seat of a taxi cab.
Bi-Racial Hair 4miins 55secs
A young teen girl ponders race and its meaning for her through a poem about her hair.
Reparation Blues 5mins
A performance piece on the modern meaning of the displacement caused by slavery, around the controversial issue of reparations.
Leslie Fields-Cruz discusses Open Call
Leslie Fields-Cruz discusses the open call process via web chat.
NMI 2007 ~ Sojuke 2mins
A poem by poet Bryonn Bain, accompanying the 2007 NMI project Juke Joint Live.
NMI 2007 ~ Juke Joint Live 5mins
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, Jacqueline Olive and Darcie Sanders create an audio pod exploring the history of juke joints in Mississippi
PRX Talent Quest ~ State of Reunion 50mins
The Public Radio Exchange's Talent Quest offers up this brilliantly produced potential series for national radio distribution.
NMI 2006 ~Black Hole 2 mins
A video-textural exploration of the physics of well-being as it relates to blackness.
NMI 2006 ~ The Other Side 3mins 16secs
Ever wondered what would happen if you kept throwing a tennis ball at a wall?
NMI 2007 ~ Remixing The Blues 1min 34secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
Made In Lesotho 5mins 36secs
Jennifer Chen runs a socially conscious production factory in Lesotho that ships to global businesses like Footlocker and The Gap.
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People 2mins 07secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
Daallo Airlines 6mins 41secs
Not withstanding a collapsed government, Somalian businessman Mohammed Yassin Olad maintains a successful, and critical, airline business.
Breaking Silences 10mins
A discussion of the alarming rate of domestic violence against women of color on college campuses.
Ruff N' Tumble In Nigeria 9mins 33secs
Decade-long CNN journalist Carol Pineau profiles a successful entrepreneur in Lagos, Nigeria.