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CBC Kids News A brief history of the Black Lives Matter movement
CBC Kids News contributor Elijah Sandiford digs into the history of the Black Lives Matter movement. Historian and sociologist Afua Cooper describes some critical moments in black history and Vancouver activist Jacob Callender-Prasad talks about his role fighting anti-black racism.
- 2020
- 00:07:00
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/09/2020
BBC Documentaries Black Power: America's Armed Resistance
Filmmaker Dan Murdoch spent last summer documenting clashes between a resurgent Ku Klux Klan and a growing Black Power movement. Now, in a follow up to KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy, he returns to America to revisit some of the people he met from the KKK and also meet members of the Black Liberation Movement to find out what black ...
- 2016
- 00:48:26
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/10/2020
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The Fifth Estate Black Lives Matter: The Disruptors
It grew in just a couple of years from a hashtag to a powerful movement that has taken on police shootings of black people and is defiantly challenging the political establishment. Black Lives Matter (BLM) now has over 40 chapters in the United States and Canada. The Fifth Estate takes you inside the movement with the people who helped build it. Janaya ...
- 2017
- 00:45:01
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/26/2017
CBC Short Docs Frame 394
Frame 394 follows a young man from Toronto who entangles himself in one of America’s most high-profile police-involved shootings. On April 4, 2015, Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, was fatally shot in the back while running away from Michael Slager, a white police officer, in Charleston, S.C. A bystander recorded the incident. Cinematographer-turned-architect-turned-animator Daniel Voshart became obsessed with the story. ...
- 2016
- 00:30:01
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/07/2017
News in Review - October 2016 Black Lives Matter: Activism in the Face of Racism in the U.S.
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was formed in 2013 to bring attention to the plight of black people in America and to campaign against violence and systemic racism. African-Americans are five times more likely to be killed by police than white men in the U.S. The summer of 2016 saw still more black men shot by police. Activists responded ...
- 2016
- 00:21:18
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/19/2016
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News in Review - February 2015 Anger and Authority in the United States
The deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown unleashed waves of anger and resentment across the U.S. Both victims were black and died at the hands of white police officers. And in both cases, authorities declined to press charges. These events brought to the surface long standing tensions in the U.S. between police and the very people they're expected to ...
- 2015
- 00:17:21
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/13/2015
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The National America's Unsolvable Problem
In the wake of recent police killings of unarmed black men, angry protesters hit the streets of many U.S. cities. CBC reporter Paul Hunter travelled to Florida to see the proactive approach that one community is taking towards what some would call America's unsolvable problem. Like so many U.S. cities, Titusville shares a renewed frustration that America just can't get past ...
- 2014
- 00:08:15
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/12/2015
News in Review - October 2014 Michael Brown's Shooting: Racial Divide in America
The shooting death of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri this past summer sparked widespread protests and violence. Michael Brown's death brought calls for authorities to address racial tension in the mostly black community that is policed by a mostly white force. It's not an uncommon problem in the U.S.
- 2014
- 00:18:15
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/07/2014
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