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Black History (Video)

In the telling of American history, African American history is vitally important. Find out more with UCTV programs about American history in all its complexity.

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How the Black Church Built Electoral Power

How the Black Church Built Electoral Power

Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner and U.S. Representative Barbara Lee speak from the heart about how the Black Church has hel... Read more

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Deep Soul: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World with Waldo Martin

Deep Soul: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World with Waldo Martin

Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles transformed both US and World History. These seminal liberation str... Read more

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The Central Park Five with Anthony Davis

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Opera News has called UC San Diego Music Professor Anthony Davis A National Treasure, for his pioneering work in opera. ... Read more

1 Jan 2020

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Gifts of the Storyteller with Brenda Stevenson - UCLA Faculty Research Lecture

Gifts of the Storyteller with Brenda Stevenson - UCLA Faculty Research Lecture

UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful mom... Read more

19 Dec 2019

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