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    Before & After '68: The Poor People's Campaign, Then & Now (Library of Congress) Documenting the Freedom Struggle in Southwest Georgia (Library of Congress) Eyes on the Prize: America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965-1985 from Washington University in St. Louis (funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities) Forgotten Legacy: William McKinley, George Henry White, and the Struggle for Black Equality (National Archives YouTube Channel) Freedom Riders (National Endowment for the Humanities) Freedom Summer (National Endowment for the Humanities) Hearing Black Voices Series (Library of Congress) Interview with David Pilgrim of the Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Jon Meacham on John Lewis and the Power of Hope (Library of Congress) Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (National Archives YouTube channel) Locality & Nation: Civil Rights & Voting Rights in the Deep South, 1963-1966 (Library of Congress) The Loving Story (National Endowment for the Humanities) Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (Library of Congress) National Archives Comes Alive! Young Learners Program—Meet The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A New Documentary Casts a Light on the 1972 Tragedy at Southern University (National Endowment for the Humanities) Nick Kotz: Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws That Changed America (Library of Congress) Patricia Sullivan on Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years (Library of Congress) Race in America: Jason Reynolds & Jacqueline Woodson (Library of Congress) Race in America: Colson Whitehead (Library of Congress) Robert L Carter: A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights (Library of Congress) Rosa Parks: The History and the Heart (Library of Congress) Selma, the Voting Rights Act & Reel History (Library of Congress) The Shattering: America in the 1960s (National Archives YouTube Channel) Teaching the Civil Rights Movement from the Bottom-Up 50 Years After the Voting Rights Act (Library of Congress) This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer (Library of Congress) Thurgood Marshall Before the Court (National Endowment for the Humanities) Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell with Alison M. Parker (National Archives YouTube Channel) Young Learners Program: Meet Fannie Lou Hamer (National Archives YouTube Channel)

    African American athletes at the 1936 Olympics (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's YouTube Channel)
    African-American Passages: Black Lives in the 19th Century podcast (Library of Congress)
    A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role: Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda, Queen of Buganda - Republic of Uganda (Library of Congress) African-Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles, Stories from the Veterans History Project (Library of Congress) Ayiti Re-imagined: The First Black Sovereign Nation (Library of Congress) The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (National Archives YouTube Channel) Carla L. Peterson: Black Gotham: A Family History (Library of Congress) Charles Hamilton Houston & World War I Early African American Life (Library of Congress) Driving While Black: African Americans on the Road in the Era of Jim Crow (supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) Inventing Equality: Reconstructing the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War (National Archives YouTube Channel) Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America (National Archives YouTube Channel) John Woodruff, 1936 Gold Medalist Olympics (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's YouTube Channel) The Long Black Freedom Struggle: African American Soldiers in WWI & Korea (Library of Congress) Moving Image Film Related to George Washington Carver (National Archives YouTube channel) Nazi Olympics: Black and Jewish Athletes Defy the "Master Race" (National Holocaust Memorial Museum) Oral Histories from the holdings of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges Oral History Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) The Time Has Come (National Archives YouTube Channel) Veteran John Holmes Recalls Meeting Newly Freed Prisoners (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's YouTube Channel)

    Aaron Diehl, Piano (Library of Congress)
    Abdullah Ibrahim & Larry Appelbaum (Library of Congress) African-American Spirituals of the Civil War (Library of Congress) African-American Spirituals of the Civil War: Performance Workshop (Library of Congress) African Fiddle & Banjo Echo in Appalachia Lecture (Library of Congress) Allen Toussaint & Larry Appelbaum (Library of Congress) Bibliodiscotheque with Gloria Gaynor (Library of Congress)
    Black Lives Matter & Music: Documenting Contemporary Culture (Library of Congress)
    Black Pearl Sings! (Library of Congress)
    Boccaccio Project (Library of Congress)
    Bourgeois Town: Lead Belly in Washington DC (Library of Congress) Cedric Watson: Cajun, Creole and Zydeco Music from Texas (Library of Congress) Changüí Majadero: Afro-Cuban Roots Music (Library of Congress) Come Let Us Sing: Gospel Music Legacies: FolkLIVE Concerts (Smithsonian Folklife YouTube Channel) Concert in Honor of Black History Month by Celeste Headlee and Danielle DeSwert (National Gallery of Art) A Conversation with Jessey Norman (Library of Congress) Cora Harvey Armstrong: African American Gospel from Virginia (Library of Congress) Creole United: African American Creole Music from Louisiana (Library of Congress) Daisy Turner's Kin: An African-American Family Saga(Library of Congress) (Library of Congress) Dianne Reeves Interview (Library of Congress) Dom Flemons: Black Cowboy Songs and more from the American Songster (Library of Congress) Esperanza Spalding Concert (Library of Congress) Etienne Charles: Creole Soul (Library of Congress)
    Henry Threadgill's Zooid (Library of Congress)
    Interview with Jose James (Library of Congress) Jazz Conversation: Ron Carter (Library of Congress) Jazz on the Screen (Library of Congress) Katherine Dunham Collection (Library of Congress) Kumbaya (Library of Congress) The Legendary Ingramettes: African American Gospel Music from Virginia (Library of Congress) Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: Smokey Robinson (Library of Congress) Memorias de agua: An Evening of Film, Dance, and Music (Smithsonian Folklife YouTube Channel) “Mi mulata” by REBOLU at the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (Library of Congress) The Paschall Brothers rehearse "I'll Be Satisfied" (Smithsonian Institute YouTube) Phil Wiggins: Blues and More from Maryland (Library of Congress) Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz (Library of Congress) Reggie Harris: Spirituals, Freedom Songs, and Other Songs of Hope (Library of Congress) The Sherman Holmes Project with Brooks Long & Phil Wiggins (Library of Congress) Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (Library of Congress) St. Louis Blues (featuring Bessie Smith) Stevie Wonder Performs "Sketches of a Life" (Library of Congress) Stevie Wonder Discusses "Sketches of a Life" (Library of Congress) "Street Folk: Hip Hop, Car Culture, and Black Life in Houston, Texas, " Langston Collin Wilkins (Library of Congress) Tank and The Bangas Educational Workshop (Library of Congress) Work Songs (Library of Congress)