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Celebrate Black achievement, culture, and history through videos that focus on fascinating people and places, traditions and time periods, events and experiences in the United States and around the world. Starting March 7, 2025 new long-form videos will be published every other Friday and new shorts will be published every Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday.
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43:37

Seeking Freedom | Courageous Stories of Freedom Suits in Antebellum America

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Young Scientist Seeks to Cultivate an Even Better Collard Green

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Difference Makers | The Greensboro Four

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Growing Up as the Last Children in Mill Creek

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Celebrating Kwanzaa, Celebrating Our Culture

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Difference Makers | The Story of Judge Nathan B. Young

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A Conversation About Civil Rights and Economic Justice | Looking Back and Looking Forward

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Our Grandmother is Henrietta Lacks | Family Shares Their Story of the Woman with Immortal Cells

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Beyond Dred Scott | The Legacy of Freedom Suits in American History

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A Life Committed to Civil Rights | Frankie Freeman, In Her Own Words

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The Story of Dred and Harriet Scott and the Court Case That Ignited America's Civil War

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Remembering the Palladium | St Louis' First Black Newspaper

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Celebrating Black History in a Community Mural

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Difference Makers | The Story of Lawyer and Activist Margaret Bush Wilson

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A Conversation with Dick Gregory

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Celebrating Our Culture | The Art of Solomon Thurman

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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Annie Malone

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Honoring Our History | President Truman Desegregates the U.S. Military

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Difference Makers | The Story of Musician William Joseph Blue

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Getting in "Good Trouble" | Civil Rights Activist Ohun Ashe

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The Story of Josephine Baker, Entertainment Icon and World War II Spy

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Difference Makers | The Story of Scientist Dr. Lincoln Diuguid

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Remembering Bessie Smith | Empress of the Blues

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Meet Patricia McKissack, Master Storyteller of Children’s Books with Black Voices

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Jeanne Trevor | The First Lady of St Louis Jazz

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Celebrating "Treemonisha," Scott Joplin's Operatic Masterpiece

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Meet Two Soldier Heroes of the Vietnam War

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From the Pen to Pen and Paper | The Story of Writer Bobby Bostic

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Remembering Our History | My Childhood Under South African Apartheid

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Making Civil Rights History | The Supreme Court Decision in Shelley v Kraemer

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For the Culture | Legacy Institute - Helping Families Cultivate Their Own Legacy

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My Father Was Medgar Evers | His Daughter Shares Her Memories of the Civil Rights Leader

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Telling Stories in the African Oral Tradition

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Shared 11 months ago

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Honoring the Heroism of Harriet Tubman

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The Green Finch Celebrates its First Year in Business

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Gateway PGA Hope

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Great American Divers

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Transform Your Hood: Creative Civic Engagement

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George B. Vashon Museum of African American History

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The Truth About Crime in St. Louis

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Colors of Courage: The Special Needs Color Guard

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Inside the Life of a Sports Beat Writer

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The 1904 World's Fair Reimagined

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PGAV: The St. Louis Company Behind Worldwide Attractions

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Botanist Charlotte Taylor

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Ready...Fence!

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MARSfarm Greenhouses

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Ameren Pollinator Project

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New Baby Orangutan at Saint Louis Zoo

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Schankman's St. Louis: Missouri Weird and Wonderful

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St. Charles Swing Dance Club

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Cherokee Street Small Business Renaissance

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Washington University AV Mini-City

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314 Day happens in March 14th in St. Louis

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Early Baseball history with John Thorn

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Eric Draper, White House Photographer

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Shared 2 years ago

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Phil Pritchard; The Keeper of the Stanley Cup

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Shared 2 years ago

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Schankman's St. Louis: THe Black Rep Stages World Premiere of Hold On!

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Shared 2 years ago

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Holocaust Museum: Impact Lab

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Neon Greens: The Bright Future of Soilless Farming in St. Louis

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