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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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2:05

Remembering Our History | Going to a Segregated Baseball Game

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Shared 5 months ago

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A Conversation with Sister Mary Antona Ebo, Part 3 Reflections on a Life of Faith and Activism

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Shared 5 months ago

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A Conversation with Sister Mary Antona Ebo, Part 2--Marching for Voting Rights

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Shared 6 months ago

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A Conversation with Sister Mary Antona Ebo, Part 1--Becoming a Nurse and Nun in Segregated America

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Shared 6 months ago

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Difference Makers | The Story of Sufragette Victoria Clay Haley

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Shared 6 months ago

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Celebrating Black Mothers | A Conversation with Anna Malaika Tubbs

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Shared 7 months ago

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43:37

Seeking Freedom | Courageous Stories of Freedom Suits in Antebellum America

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Shared 8 months ago

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Young Scientist Seeks to Cultivate an Even Better Collard Green

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Shared 8 months ago

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Difference Makers | The Greensboro Four

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Shared 8 months ago

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Growing Up as the Last Children in Mill Creek

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Shared 9 months ago

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2:21

Celebrating Kwanzaa, Celebrating Our Culture

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Shared 10 months ago

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Difference Makers | The Story of Judge Nathan B. Young

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Shared 10 months ago

411 views

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

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Shared 10 months ago

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11:24

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

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Shared 11 months ago

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31:45

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

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Shared 11 months ago

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

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Shared 1 year ago

242 views

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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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Shared 1 year ago

555 views

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Remembering the Palladium | St Louis' First Black Newspaper

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Shared 1 year ago

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Celebrating Black History in a Community Mural

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Shared 1 year ago

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

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Shared 1 year ago

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A Conversation with Dick Gregory

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Shared 1 year ago

224K views

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Celebrating Our Culture | The Art of Solomon Thurman

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Shared 1 year ago

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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Annie Malone

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Shared 1 year ago

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

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Shared 1 year ago

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Difference Makers | The Story of Musician William Joseph Blue

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Shared 1 year ago

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

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Shared 1 year ago

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

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Shared 1 year ago

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Difference Makers | The Story of Scientist Dr. Lincoln Diuguid

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Shared 1 year ago

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Remembering Bessie Smith | Empress of the Blues

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Shared 1 year ago

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

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Shared 1 year ago

156 views

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Jeanne Trevor | The First Lady of St Louis Jazz

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Shared 1 year ago

117 views

5:58

Celebrating "Treemonisha," Scott Joplin's Operatic Masterpiece

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Shared 1 year ago

787 views

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Meet Two Soldier Heroes of the Vietnam War

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Shared 1 year ago

67 views

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

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Shared 1 year ago

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Remembering Our History | My Childhood Under South African Apartheid

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Shared 1 year ago

343 views

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

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Shared 1 year ago

532 views

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

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Shared 1 year ago

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

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Shared 1 year ago

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Telling Stories in the African Oral Tradition

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Shared 1 year ago

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Honoring the Heroism of Harriet Tubman

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Shared 1 year ago

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The Green Finch Celebrates its First Year in Business

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Shared 2 years ago

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Gateway PGA Hope

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Shared 2 years ago

377 views

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Great American Divers

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Shared 2 years ago

495 views

4:46

Transform Your Hood: Creative Civic Engagement

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Shared 2 years ago

109 views

4:22

George B. Vashon Museum of African American History

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Shared 2 years ago

288 views

7:36

The Truth About Crime in St. Louis

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Shared 2 years ago

21K views

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Colors of Courage: The Special Needs Color Guard

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Shared 2 years ago

465 views

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Inside the Life of a Sports Beat Writer

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Shared 2 years ago

142 views

3:51

The 1904 World's Fair Reimagined

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Shared 2 years ago

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PGAV: The St. Louis Company Behind Worldwide Attractions

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Shared 2 years ago

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Botanist Charlotte Taylor

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Shared 2 years ago

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Ready...Fence!

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Shared 2 years ago

252 views

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MARSfarm Greenhouses

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Shared 2 years ago

318 views

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Ameren Pollinator Project

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Shared 2 years ago

76 views

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New Baby Orangutan at Saint Louis Zoo

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Shared 2 years ago

35K views

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Schankman's St. Louis: Missouri Weird and Wonderful

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Shared 2 years ago

162 views

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St. Charles Swing Dance Club

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Shared 2 years ago

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Cherokee Street Small Business Renaissance

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Shared 2 years ago

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Washington University AV Mini-City

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Shared 2 years ago

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314 Day happens in March 14th in St. Louis

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Shared 2 years ago

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