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Redemption: The Johnny Fort Story

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The Lost Story of Emmett Till "The Universal Child"
The brutal murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, and the acquittal of the two white men who killed him, was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.

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The Lost Story of Emmett Till "Trial in the Delta"
Trial in the Delta is a reenactment of the actual court proceedings that played out in Sumner, Mississippi in 1955. Actors portraying witnesses for the defense and prosecution, including Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till and uncle Moses Wright, deliver dee

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The Lost Story of Emmett Till "Then and Now"
In “The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then & Now,” the third and final installment of NBC Chicago’s docuseries about Emmett Till, investigative journalist Marion Brooks travels to Mississippi and uncovers the most startling, previously unknown facts that pro

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THE HISTORY OF BLACK RADIO IN CHICAGO - THE DAWN OF URBAN RADIO WVON WJPC

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RUDE - Rudy Ray Moore

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The Wayman Tisdale Story
An Emmy Award-Winning documentary celebrating the life and legacy of Wayman Tisdale, a three time basketball All-American, Gold Medal Olympian, former NBA star and world renowned jazz musician.

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The Secret of Selling to the Negroes
The Secret of Selling the Negro Market is a 1954 film financed by Johnson Publishing Company, the publisher of Ebony magazine, to encourage advertisers to promote their products and services in the African-American media. The film showed African-American

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WVON 40 Years of Service

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WVON Documentary
WVON 50 Years of Impact traces the history of WVON Radio. This short film documents the important role WVON has played in history of Chicago the nation. Founded as the Voice of the Negro, the station soon became known as the Talk of Chicago Today WVO

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WVON The Good Ol’ Days of 60s Radio (Chicago 2002)

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7 WONDERS of CHICAGO

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Dreamcatcher
“You got any dreams you wanna catch?” Sundance award winner DREAMCATCHER takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage prostitute with a drug habit, Bren

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DRUG$ The Price We Pay
DRUG$: The Price We Pay – Narrated by Academy Award® Winner J.K. Simmons, a story that unpacks the mystery of modern medicine’s skyrocketing price tag and how it affects the people struggling to stay alive. (79 min)

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Crisis on Federal Street
A documentary hosted by Hodding Carter III that examines the well-intentioned but failed federal assistance programs implemented during the 1960s' "war on poverty." Rose Economou - Producer/Director, Patricia Roberts - Associate Producer, James Lindberg

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Juneteenth-Faith and Freedom

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GRASSROOTS CHICAGO
A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes on community organizing in different Chicago neighborhoods: LeClaire Courts, Marquette Park, Roseland, Pi

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Folded Map Project Documentary
The Folded Map Project documentary is a great, real example of small steps to understanding how did you end up living there, and how can we get to know each other better. How can we understand these neighborhoods are intertwined? We are all paying taxes,

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Cooked Survival by Zip Code
Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand takes audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster -- in which 739 people died, mostly black and in the poorest neighborhoods of the city, ties it back to the underlying man-made disaster of systemic

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WVON 40 Years of Service

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