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African-Americans

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Faces of influential Black Americans dispersed across frame. February calendar page and map of the U, S in background. Caption. To focus on and learn more about black culture.
All About the Holidays
Episode 54
1 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: All About the Holidays: Black History Month (Spanish)
All About the Holidays
Episode
2 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Closeup of a wooden Kwanzaa kinara with red, green and black candles. Heap of fruits and vegetables fills background.
All About the Holidays
Episode 4
1 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Rendering of Martin Luther King, Jr. standing behind a pulpit in a church setting. Caption. Dr. King spoke out against racial discrimination.
All About the Holidays
Episode 39
1 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Three side-by-side photos of different spaces, including a park with a walkway, a staircase entrance to a school building, and a small town store. All three images are overlaid with a red circle with a slash through it.
All About the Holidays
Episode
1 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Brown v. Board of Education
BRI's Homework Help
Episode
4 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman at door of a brick building. Caption. So with the 16 Black students and 4 Black teachers, they set up what...
43 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: K - 12
Two people dance as a group of people watches behind them in a gymnasium.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 4 / Ep 6
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man in an NYC t-shirt and baseball cap dances in front of the entrance of a building.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 4 / Ep 1
8 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing a red hoodie hops up in the air as he dances with four other people watching and clapping their hands behind him. Across the street is the Howard Theatre.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 3 / Ep 1
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Listen, St. Louis: Addressing Trauma in the Black Community With Candice Cox
50 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Black Kids Yoga Class--Empowering Mental Well-Being
Living St. Louis
Episode
5 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Charles Henry Turner's Study of Bees
Living St. Louis
Episode
6 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Dred Scott and "A More or Less Perfect Union"
Living St. Louis
Episode
4 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Eliza Rone--Enslaved & Emancipated at the Campbell House
Living St. Louis
Episode
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing
Living St. Louis
Episode
2 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Play Therapy for Children's Mental Well-Being
Living St. Louis
Episode
5 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Oberlin: A Village Rooted in Freedom
56 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Did Martin Luther King, Jr. Get a Holiday?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 16
9 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Is the Rosa Parks Story True?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 20
8 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: What Is Ethnicity?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 11
9 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: What Is Racial Passing?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 12
10 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 38
7 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Have Private Prisons?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 17
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Would You Have Joined the American Revolution?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 24
9 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Letter From Birmingham Jail
Primary Source Essentials
Episode
2 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Reframing the Narrative: Blacks in Ballet
18 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: Is Voting a Privilege or a Right?
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 5
12 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: Work Week
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 6
10 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Several young people working on an object. Caption: the first all-female African-American RoboCup team.
Science Nation
Episode 171
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Talking Black in America
56 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Three log-cabin-style structures in a row next to each other, near a paved driveway and white house, and backing up to a wooded area. Caption reads: "FightersHeaven.com."
Teen Kids News
Episode 2003
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2207)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2207
20 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Still image from: The Backbone
1 hours 11 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white frame of Jackie Robinson at bat mid warm-up swing. Caption. Come on, Jackie boy, get a hold of one!
1 hours 17 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12