Instructional Video11:49
Crash Course

Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas: Crash Course Black American History #46

12th - Higher Ed
Today, Clint will teach you about the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas. During the screening process, Anita Hill came forward alleging that Thomas had sexually harassed her when the two of them worked together at the...
Instructional Video11:53
TED Talks

TED: The haunting truth of ghost stories | Coya Paz Brownrigg

12th - Higher Ed
Ghost stories reveal much more than the ghouls and spirits that haunt them. Settle in for a spooky delight as theater educator Coya Paz Brownrigg lays out three types of bone-chilling tales and exhumes the grave truths they hold about...
Instructional Video4:48
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable - Christina Greer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ida B. Wells was an investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and anti-lynching advocate who fought for equality and justice. -- In the late 1800’s, lynchings were happening all over the American South, often without any...
Instructional Video2:32
Wonderscape

The Compromise of 1877: End of Reconstruction and Its Impact

K - 5th
This video examines the Compromise of 1877 and its consequences for Black Americans in the South. Discover how this agreement ended federal intervention in the South, leading to increased voter suppression, violence, and the rise of...
Instructional Video4:02
Wonderscape

Kamala Harris’s Journey to the U.S. Senate: Fighting for Justice and Equality

K - 5th
This video follows Kamala Harris’s transition from Attorney General to U.S. Senator, where she championed immigration reform, criminal justice policy, and women’s rights. Known for her prosecutorial questioning and dedication to justice,...
Instructional Video12:43
Hip Hughes History

United States v Shipp Explained

6th - 12th
A new HipHughes style involving an Amish rocking chair and an episode of Seinfeld. In this new video we examine the dynamic, tragic and monumentally important case of US V SHIPP. Set against a lynching this case had THREE notable firsts!
Instructional Video2:17
Curated Video

The Chinese Massacre Explained

9th - Higher Ed
The Chinese Massacre of 1871 was the deadliest lynching in U.S. history – wiping out 10% of LA’s immigrant Chinese population in the space of just a few hours.
Instructional Video5:46
Curated Video

The Waco Horror: the Unjust Killing of Jesse Washington

9th - Higher Ed
The body of Fryer, a fifty-three-year-old white woman, was found by her children on the family’s property in Robinson, seven miles southeast of Waco. Jesse Washington, a laborer on Fryer’s farm, was arrested and charged with Fryer’s...
Instructional Video2:15
Curated Video

White Mob Lynches Frank Embree Hours Before Trial in Missouri

9th - Higher Ed
Frank Embree was nineteen when he was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl. Embree was from the state of Missouri, and Black men convicted of rape of a White woman were sentenced to death by lynching. His horrifying story shows the...
Instructional Video4:04
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Timothy B. Tyson - The Blood of Emmett Till

Higher Ed
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Instructional Video2:00
Curated Video

Mary Turner: A Young Black Woman Dehumanized

9th - Higher Ed
On May 16, 1918, a plantation owner was murdered, prompting a manhunt which resulted in a series of lynchings in May 1918 in southern Georgia, United States. White people killed at least 13 black people during the next two weeks. Among...
Instructional Video2:06
Curated Video

Wanted: The Infamous Reno Gang

9th - Higher Ed
Over a two-year period in the 1860s, infamous train robbers the Reno Gang stole the equivalent of $9 million dollars, until an act of vigilantism stopped them in their tracks.
Instructional Video2:27
Curated Video

Ida B. Wells: Journalist and Anti-Lynching Activist

9th - Higher Ed
Investigative journalist Ida B. Wells made it her mission to exposing the horrors of racism in the American South, but it wasn't easy.
News Clip1:16
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Madagascar defendants arrive in court over 2013 lynchings

9th - Higher Ed
37 defendants arrive in court to face trial in Madagascar for the 2013 lynching of two Europeans and a local man
News Clip1:50
Sherman Grinberg Film Library

US Senate votes in Washington, DC, to condemn US Senator Joseph McCarthy

Higher Ed
Title card: "Senate votes to condemn McCarthy" / four shots of people waiting in hallway to get into Senate chamber / two shots of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) talking to man in hallway after Senate vote / McCarthy talking to reporters /...
News Clip2:08
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Pakistan: protest to condemn the murder of university student

9th - Higher Ed
Eight Pakistanis involved in the mob lynching of a fellow university student over his liberal views are charged with murder and terrorism while rights activists and civil society organisations hold a protest in Islamabad to condemn the...
News Clip3:05
Curated Video

Former New Orleans Mayor backs Joe Biden

Higher Ed
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says any of the Democratic candidates currently running for president would be better for the nation than President Donald Trump.
News Clip0:46
AFP News Agency

VOICED : Soldados centroafricanos linchan a hombre

9th - Higher Ed
Imagenes divulgadas por AFP este miercoles muestran el linchamiento de un hombre en Bangui por soldados centroafricanos, que lo acusaban de ser un exrebelde VOICED : Soldados centroafricanos linchan a hombre on February 05, 2014 in...
Instructional Video3:05
Curated Video

Former New Orleans Mayor backs Joe Biden

Higher Ed
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says any of the Democratic candidates currently running for president would be better for the nation than President Donald Trump.
Instructional Video1:20
Curated Video

Former New Orleans Mayor backs Joe Biden

Higher Ed
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News Clip0:49
Curated Video

Family Seeks Investigation After Black Man Found Hanging From A Tree

Higher Ed
Robert Fuller's body was discovered Wednesday in Palmdale, California.
News Clip1:44
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Bangladesh opens bridge plagued by graft claims, lynchings

9th - Higher Ed
Bangladesh on Saturday opened an important bridge near the capital Dhaka after a long construction plagued by delays, graft allegations, and even deadly lynchings sparked by rumours of human sacrifice (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Instructional Video11:53
PBS

Mary Church Terrell | Unladylike2020

7th - 12th
Catalytic events wake people up. For Mary Church Terrell the lynching of her friend Thomas Moss lead to her involvement in the catalytic events of suffrage, anti-lynching, and desegregation. Learn more about this amazing woman and her...
Instructional Video4:38
C-SPAN

On This Day: Emmett Till and the Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement

7th - 12th Standards
The murder of Emmett Till, a boy accused of whistling at a white woman in the deep South in the 1950s, galvanized the civil rights movement. His open casket—revealing the ugly horror of racism—reignited a movement. Clips include an...