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American Archive of Public Broadcasting (a collaboration between Library of Congress and WGBH Boston) 14Hide All
- The Abolitionists Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- Africans in America (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- Eyes on the Prize Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- Freedom Riders Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- In Black America (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- John Brown's Holy War Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- Jubilee Singers Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- Ken Burns’ The Civil War Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- The Murder of Emmett Till Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- Reconstruction Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- Say Brother (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- The Soul of Black Identity: Artist Interviews of the Post-Soul Era (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
- The “WHUT Collection” (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
Civil Rights 29Hide All
- 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)
Folklife 8Hide All
- African American Dollmaking and Puppetry: Renegotiating Identity, Restoring Community (Library of Congress)
- American Folklife Center: National Visionary Leadership Project Showcase (Library of Congress)
- Crafts of Cameroon: A Discussion with Fashion Designer Kibonen (Smithsonian Institution YouTube)
- Curating Creative Encounters: A Living Religions Playlist (Smithsonian Institution)
- Library Folklife Collections Orientation for the National Association of Black Storytellers (Library of Congress)
- Opalanga Pugh: African-American Storytelling from Colorado with Askia Toure on Voice and Drum (Library of Congress)
- Passing the Torch: Senegalese Metalsmithing Across Geography and Gender (Smithsonian Institution)
- Since 1968: The Drum & Spear Bookstore (Library of Congress)
History 21Hide All
- 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)
• African-American Passages: Black Lives in the 19th Century podcast on iTunes - 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)
Music and Performing Arts 48Hide All
- Aaron Diehl, Piano (Library of Congress)
• Interview with Aaron Diehl (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)
• Conversation: Black Lives Matter and Music (interview) (Library of Congress) - Black Pearl Sings! (Library of Congress)
- Boccaccio Project (Library of Congress)
• Sequestered Thoughts: Damien Sneed and Jeremy Jordan
• Have and Hold: Allison Loggins-Hull & Nathalie Joachim - 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)
- 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)
• A Conversation with Henry Threadgill (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)
- “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)
Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) 9Hide All
- An Evening with Chinua Achebe (Library of Congress)
- Colson Whitehead Interview 2020 National Book Festival (Library of Congress)
- David Kresh: Langton Hughes and His Poetry (Library of Congress)
- Journeys and Crossings: Langston Hughes and His Poetry (Library of Congress)
- Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston) (Library of Congress)
- Poetry Jam with Split This Rock (Library of Congress)
- Race in America: U.S. Poets Laureate Joy Harjo & Tracy K. Smith (Library of Congress)
- Story Circle: The Poetry of Rage and Possibility (Smithsonian Institution)
- What Was, What Is, and What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism (Library of Congress)
Religion and Philosophy 2Hide All
Slavery and Emancipation 13Hide All
- The Abolitionists (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)
- American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765–1795 (National ArchivesYouTube channel)
- Conversation on the Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress)
- Emancipation Proclamation 150th Anniversary at the National Archives (National Archives YouTube Channel)
- Exodus to Kansas: The Exoduster Movement (National Archives YouTube Channel)
- The Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature & Literacy (Library of Congress)
- Let No Man Put Asunder: Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records (National Archives YouTube Channel)
- Maurice Jackson on Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism (Library of Congress)
- Slavery By Another Name (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Srividhya Swaminathan on Defining Enslavement: Literary Depictions of Slaveries in Early 18th Century Britain (Library of Congress)
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (Library of Congress)
- What Did The Emancipation Proclamation Accomplish? (National Endowment for the Humanities)