The President’s July 8th remarks on the Dallas, Texas police shooting. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUm6huDOdeg” Continue reading Obama Remarks on Dallas, Texas Police Shooting
The President’s July 7th remarks on the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab (without quotation marks): “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL3tRgsqMmw” Continue reading Obama remarks on Alton Sterling and Philando Castile Shootings
Clips from the press conference given by Alton Sterling’s family and from the governor of Louisiana’s remarks about the shooting. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZZAUiTA9s” Continue reading Sterling, Alton (News Analysis)
From YouTube via Midwest National Parks and StoryCorps: The only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War, the town of Nicodemus is symbolic of the pioneer spirit of African Americans who dared to leave the only region they had been familiar with to seek personal freedom and the opportunity to develop their talents and capabilities. In partnership … Continue reading StoryCorps: Nicodemus National Historic Site
Baldwin and Buckley debate at the Cambridge Union in 1965. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPz7kTnEWKE” Continue reading Baldwin, James and William F. Buckley Jr. Debate: “Has the American Dream been achieved at the price of the American Negro?”
Muhammad Ali performs “Stand By Me,” from his spoken word album “I am the Greatest”(1963). Read more about the album here. The album was released less than a year before Ali’s conversion to Islam, and was released under the name Cassius Clay. Audio with still photograph. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” … Continue reading Ali, Muhammad, “Stand By Me”
Ali appears on William F. Buckley Jr.’s program Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. speaking about Ali’s role in American culture, his refusal to fight in the Vietnam war, his Islamic faith, and the relationship between Black and White America. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXB0029YKFQ” Continue reading Ali, Muhammad and William F. Buckley Jr., “Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement”
Amiri Baraka reads “Black Art.” This performance was released on the album “Sonny’s Time Now,” featuring jazz performers Sonny Murray, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, and Louis Worrell. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2P-tlEH_w” Continue reading Baraka, Amiri, “Black Art” (1967)
King speaks at Stanford University about the struggle to achieve meaningful reforms for civil rights abuses. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3H978KlR20” Continue reading King Jr., Martin Luther, “The Other America” (1967)
This is a performance of the letter by management professor James Fredrickson (of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas Austen), which includes music, reenactments, and archival footage. McCombs uses the letter in his management leadership classes. Read more about it here. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” … Continue reading King Jr., Martin Luther, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963)
