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Local Austin Activist Clifford Gillard on "Creating a Lasting Something"
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
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Clifford has been a long-standing community activist on Austin’s east side. He routinely conducts focus groups, hosts various community meetings, a...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 08:50
The Love Stack
From: George Mocharko
Caption: Marcus Bullock
Marcus Bullock is the founder of the tech app Flikshop—which allows families to communicate digitally with their loved ones in prison. In this clip...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 05:56
Alee Opuiyo: Wanted to Commit Suicide
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Alafaka Opuiyo, Credit: Shefik
Love - Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Scie...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Yolanda Franklin-Moore: The Environment Is Full of Happiness
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Yolanda Franklin-Moore, Credit: Shefik
Happiness - Yolanda Franklin-Moore is Fashion Designer and Owner of Xande Fadee, an innovative fashion and accessories line. Yolanda is a highly sk...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
Malacka Reed El
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Melanated people are here. We are thriving. Our businesses are thriving. The return to kings and queens is here. We are vibrating higher by the mil...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Real talk about race: W. Kamau Bell and the Elmwood Café
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Comedian W. Kamau Bell performing his stand up act, Credit: flickr user Florida International University
In the auditorium of Willard Middle School, about 300 people have gathered, many of them sitting on those rickety school bucket chairs, the ones th...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 2
Welcome to the Big Leagues
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh unpacks the saga of the Contract Buyers League, a local activist group in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood that organized in the 1...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 2
A Young Scholar vs. the Recession
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:39
There used to be businesses in South Rome
From: LA Lands
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This piece focuses on memories of businesses located in the historically black neighborhood of South Rome (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia), a communit...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 02:35