Alternative for Out-of-Class Events Assignments
If you could not attend two out-of-class events, you can watch two of the following videos. You may also select a movie or television show of your own.
The following is a list of movies and television series. If there is a movie or television series you would like to view, please feel free to do so.
Harriet Tubman Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
Black Panther Hidden Figures (2016)
Get Out
Us
Coming to America (1988)
Coming 2 America (2021)
Django Unchained (2012)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Lean on Me (1989)
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013)
Malcolm X (1992)
Mississippi Burning (1989)
A Raisin in the Sun (based on a 1959 play by Lorraine Hansberry. The title comes from a Langston Hughes poem titled Harlem or also known as A Dream Deferred.)
Roots (1977)
Selma
Stormy Weather (old 1943 musical classic with Lena Horne)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
The Color Purple (1985)
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
The Help (2011)
The following are links to articles, short videos, and TEDTalk’s
Sharon Osbourne Leaves CBS’ ‘The Talk’ Amidst Allegations of Racism
https://yourblackworld.net/2021/04/01/sharon-osbourne-leaves-cbs-the-talk-amidst-allegations-of-racism/?utm_source=Sites+News&utm_campaign=9e7978e846-YBW_RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e4ec70021d-9e7978e846-176092657&goal=0_e4ec70021d-9e7978e846-176092657&mc_cid=9e7978e846&mc_eid=1ed14fd115
The Magnificent James Baldwin Speaks Truth To Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2kwzJ_Zg4
Meet The Woman Who Learned That Her Mother Passed As White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNiEBnOzgVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvfqryi9W8
Daryl Davis: Why did a black man befriend the KKK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfo4QFVS5YQ
African-American man convinces Klansmen to leave the KKK through friendship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVVFx3issHg
My road trip through the whitest towns in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTf9Sdrq1zg
Inside the discovery of the last known slave ship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1niYRK1WYI
The Legacy of Cudjo Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flbtjy7V5DA
George Washington Carver: An Uncommon Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3CVmluYFtI
Garrett A. Morgan (article)
https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Garrett_A._Morgan
Invention of the traffic light by Garrett Morgan was in Cleveland in 1923
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8iTQGtv1a8
Meet Nancy Green, the Real Aunt Jemima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkETQ20Bem4
Any Television Show, News broadcast, documentary, TEDTalk, etc.
Once you have viewed the selected video, television show, etc. you must write a reflection that incorporates the following information.
Once you have viewed the selected video, television show, etc. you must write a reflection that incorporates the following information.
Title of the movie
Brief synopsis of what the movie was about
Was the content of the movie represented in a historical or entertaining tone?
How did the movie connect to the African American experience?
Did the movie represent African Americans in a negative or positive light?
Did the movie extend or deconstruct misrepresentation or stereotypes surrounding the African Americans?
When you type your reflections, at the top of the first page put the following under your name, Alternative Out-of-Class Reflection. If you complete two alternative reflections, make sure to have that listed on each.
Upload you reflections on Blackboard under Out-of-Class Assignment 1 & 2
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