Ethnic Notions

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke...

Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while...

Suellyn thought the Department of Community Services (DOCS) would only remove children in extreme cases, until her own grandchildren were taken in...

A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

Police have been killing people in Columbus, Ohio, with near impunity for more than two decades, leaving behind a community bound together by grief...

I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned around to see who they were talking to, until I...

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental...

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.

In THE COLOR OF FEAR, eight American men participated in emotionally charged discussions of racism. In this sequel, we hear and see more from those...

Eight American men of different ethnic backgrounds discuss homophobic prejudice against gay men in the United States, sharing their fears and...