Segregation Videos

Touching history is a powerful thing. It forms an indelible impression that helps to shape who we are and who we can be. Freedom s Ride is a documentary film that follows the journey of forty honors history students from two very different worlds -- a legendary all-minority high school in Harlem and a nearly all-white rural high school from an affluent New Jersey county -- as they retrace the path of the civil rights Freedom Rides of the 1960 s. With a five-day bus journey from Washington to Birmingham, each member of this diverse student group discovers the real meaning behind the notion that all men are created equal and, in doing so, uncovers the fundamental truth about personal freedom.

Just like their oppressors -- white Christians who used the Bible, natural law , and religious arguments to justify discrimination against blacks -- these black Christians are using the same sorts of arguments to justify discrimination against homosexuals in the name of their god. Link to the full video on the Rightwingwatchdotorg channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHpvIK295TA Music: O To Be Like Thee

THIS IS NOT AIMED AT MY SUBSCRIBERS but at those idiots who pass through and crap on our video comments pages without ever realising they just make themselves look stupid ;) Last week was national poetry day in the UK, so I wrote poem but only just got round to making the video. We've all had their comments so this is just simply an observtion of the idiotic attitudes of some people towards others with their racist, discriminatory and predjudicial comments.

A struggling black screenwriter moves into a newly renovated apartment above a supposedly haunted movie theater in a small Southern town and becomes romantically involved with the troubled young white woman who lives across the hall.

Produced, shot, and edited by Theo Black, 16, as part of the Summer 2009 Youth Digital Media Workshop.

A young African American man moves to Oregon in search of work, and to esape the racism of the deep south, only to discover that Oregon has its own share of racism and discrimination.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/cripsandbloods It's a civil war that's lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. But what's at the root of this long-standing battle? Filmmaker Stacy Peralta hits the streets of LA to find out, and speaks with former and current members of the Bloods and the Crips, two of the most notorious and violent street gangs in America. In this clip, members of the Crips and Bloods reveal the geography of gangs, as neighborhoods are divided into turfs. CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America premieres Tuesday, May 12 on INDEPENDENT LENS, a weekly series airing on PBS. Hosted by Terrence Howard, the acclaimed series showcases powerful and innovative independent films. Presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS is broadcast on PBS stations nationwide.Visit the Web site for more: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/cripsandbloods

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/cripsandbloods It's a civil war that's lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. But what's at the root of this long-standing battle? Filmmaker Stacy Peralta hits the streets of LA to find out, and speaks with former and current members of the Bloods and the Crips, two of the most notorious and violent street gangs in America. In this clip, daily interrogations by police lead to anger and frustration, turning young men into "ticking time bombs." CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America premieres Tuesday, May 12 on INDEPENDENT LENS, a weekly series airing on PBS. Hosted by Terrence Howard, the acclaimed series showcases powerful and innovative independent films. Presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS is broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. Visit the Web site for more: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/cripsandbloods

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/cripsandbloods It s a civil war that s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. But what s at the root of this long-standing battle? Filmmaker Stacy Peralta hits the streets of LA to find out, and speaks with former and current members of the Bloods and the Crips, two of the most notorious and violent street gangs in America. In this clip, a bloody civil war is fought on the streets of South Central every day, virtually unnoticed. CRIPS AND BLOODS: Made in America premieres Tuesday, May 12 on INDEPENDENT LENS, a weekly series airing on PBS. Hosted by Terrence Howard, the acclaimed series showcases powerful and innovative independent films. Presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS is broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. Visit the Web site for more: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/cripsandbloods

VIDEO - Iraq, Baghdad/Sadr City After the failure of many security plans proposed by the Iraqi government and US military strategists, a recent plan, hand-in-hand with the so-called "Surge," was designed. It was a desperate attempt by the US and Iraqi military forces to control the Sunni-Shia militia. At the suggestion of military leaders, the Iraqi and US governments decided to build walls to separate neighborhoods and to control militias and insurgents from entering or exiting any neighborhood without passing a checkpoint. The first wall was built in Adhamiya, in April 2007. Despite protests and opposition, United States military and Iraqi National Guard forces began to erect a wall surrounding the neighborhood of Adhamiya. The people living in the neighborhood engaged in several demonstrations against building the wall, and even Prime Minister Maliki, a Shi'a critical of the neighborhood, publicly protested the plan. Despite his intervention and public discontent, the wall was built and finished by late April 2007. These walls tend to be approximately 3 meters in height and made from concrete. In some areas the top of the wall is covered with concertina wire to prevent intruders from climbing over the wall. There are patrols set to guard the wall and they are present around the wall daily, and at all hours, to protract the wall from being attacked or bombed by insurgents. Another wall built at end of April 2007, but this time in Ameriya, this wall is approximately 10 kilometers in length and again 3 meters high. In September 2007 yet another wall was built in the Saidiya neighborhood. The wall surrounding that district was 23 kilometers, and by the end of 2007 there were over 50 different walls built around different neighborhoods across Baghdad. In May 2008 a wall was built in Sadr City after battles between the US military and the Mahdi Army. There are approximately two million citizens living inside the area now known as Sadr City, probably the largest single group impacted by one of Baghdad's walls. Previously they could come and go via nine major entrances. Many shops were force to close because of the wall, the shop owners found they could not complete there work anymore due to the wall sitting just in front of their shops.

Director Peter Gilbert explores the shocking history and legacy of the legal decision that tore our nation apart and still divides us today.