Video Lessons

This collection of video content is ideally suited for online learners. It includes content in Black History, Black Politics, Black Sociology, as well as Black Art and Music.

Fact Check: Martin Luther King Critic Julia Clarice Brown Was US Government Informant and FBI Agent

Countless people across the globe celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s greatness on MLK Day....

How Black Women Contributed to the Civil Rights Movement…Despite Its Sexism

HOW BLACK WOMEN CONTRIBUTED TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (Despite Its Sexism) by Darius Spearman...

Russia And Black People: Relationship Status (It’s Complicated)

WNBA superstar, Brittney Griner had been entering Russia to play in the Russian Premier League during the off-season since 2014. However, in February 2022, Russian customs officials detained Griner after finding cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage. Over the years, the relationship between Black people and Soviet Russia has vacillated between acceptance and discrimination and violence.

California’s Reparations Task Force: An Unapologetic Call for Racial Justice

In 2020 California Secretary of State Shirley Weber put forward California Assembly Bill 3121. The bill’s passage established the first-in-a-nation task force to study reparations. Reparations seek to right the wrongs of the past, ensure that our children are not victims of the same injustices we have suffered, and heal as a nation.

Marcus Garvey and the Call for Black Unity

Marcus Garvey practiced a doctrine of self-reliance, anti-colonialism, and Black unity, but rivalries and factionalism ultimately led to his downfalI.

Guilty By Asociation? Aaron Harvey and Brandon “Tiny Doo” Duncan Speak at San Diego City College

Aaron Harvey and Brandon “Tiny Doo” Duncan — who have no criminal record — are facing life sentences over charges related to alleged gang activity. How does one become “gang affiliated?” How then does one get charged with crimes attributed to gangs whether or not there was direct involvement? Aaron Harvey and Brandon “Tiny Doo” Duncan will Speak at San Diego City College on how a little known provision in California’s Proposition 21 can proclaim alleged gang members guilty by association.