The Archive

A powerful documentary exploring the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States. Named after the Thirteenth Amendment, it traces the history of racial inequality from slavery to the modern prison-industrial complex.

Delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, this speech became a defining moment of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic orations in American history.

A landmark speech advocating for Black nationalism, political self-determination, and the right of African Americans to defend themselves against racial injustice by any means necessary.

Written while imprisoned for participating in nonviolent demonstrations, this open letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism and argues that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws.

Based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript 'Remember This House,' this documentary explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.

A historic debate at the Cambridge Union Society on the motion 'The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.' Baldwin's eloquent, devastating argument received a standing ovation and remains a masterclass in rhetoric.

A genre-defying album that redefined conscious hip-hop, weaving together jazz, funk, soul, and spoken word to explore African-American culture, systemic racism, depression, and the complexities of Black identity in America.

The definitive documentary series on the American civil rights movement, covering the period from 1954 to 1985. Through first-person accounts and archival footage, it chronicles the struggle for racial equality that transformed a nation.

A landmark long-form essay published in The Atlantic that traces the economic consequences of slavery and Jim Crow, making a compelling argument for why America owes a debt to its Black citizens that has never been repaid.

Delivered at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, this extemporaneous speech challenged prevailing attitudes toward both race and gender, becoming one of the most famous abolitionist and women's rights speeches in American history.