Crash Course
Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas: Crash Course Black American History #46
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...
TED Talks
TED: The haunting truth of ghost stories | Coya Paz Brownrigg
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...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable - Christina Greer
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...
Wonderscape
The Compromise of 1877: End of Reconstruction and Its Impact
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...
Wonderscape
Kamala Harris’s Journey to the U.S. Senate: Fighting for Justice and Equality
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,...
Hip Hughes History
United States v Shipp Explained
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!
Curated Video
The Chinese Massacre Explained
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.
Curated Video
The Waco Horror: the Unjust Killing of Jesse Washington
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...
Curated Video
White Mob Lynches Frank Embree Hours Before Trial in Missouri
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - The Blood of Emmett Till
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...
Curated Video
Mary Turner: A Young Black Woman Dehumanized
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...
Curated Video
Wanted: The Infamous Reno Gang
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.
Curated Video
Ida B. Wells: Journalist and Anti-Lynching Activist
Investigative journalist Ida B. Wells made it her mission to exposing the horrors of racism in the American South, but it wasn't easy.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Madagascar defendants arrive in court over 2013 lynchings
37 defendants arrive in court to face trial in Madagascar for the 2013 lynching of two Europeans and a local man
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Senate votes in Washington, DC, to condemn US Senator Joseph McCarthy
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 /...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Pakistan: protest to condemn the murder of university student
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...
Curated Video
Former New Orleans Mayor backs Joe Biden
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.
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Soldados centroafricanos linchan a hombre
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...
Curated Video
Former New Orleans Mayor backs Joe Biden
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.
Curated Video
Former New Orleans Mayor backs Joe Biden
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Curated Video
Family Seeks Investigation After Black Man Found Hanging From A Tree
Robert Fuller's body was discovered Wednesday in Palmdale, California.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Bangladesh opens bridge plagued by graft claims, lynchings
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)
PBS
Mary Church Terrell | Unladylike2020
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...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Emmett Till and the Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement
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...