The Center for New Media & Strategic Initiatives is tasked with producing contemporary and historical documentarystyle films about Black life in America.
RECENT FILMS
AMERICA’ S APARTHEID: BANNING BLACK BOOKS, SILENCING BLACK VOICES When the banning of books written by U. S. Black authors reached epidemic proportions, a group of Black writers, educators and journalists traveled to Havana to examines these attempts to erase Black history, and discover kinship with Afro Cubans
HISTORY OF A NATIONAL TREASURE: MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, a 37-minute film that tells the story of this HBCU’ s founding and its successful struggle to become one of this nation’ s leading higher education institutions.
UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Ellen Irene Diggs had to fight for everything she got in life. But until now Diggs never achieved the recognition she deserved as an anthropologist, a sociologist, author and editor. But Diggs excelled in all of these areas and this documentary will tell her story- a story that history should not be allowed to forget. _________
Black Veterans and an Ungrateful Nation is a film about how the more than one million African Americans who served in the U. S. military during World War II were denied the full benefits of the post-war G. I. Bill and the generational wealth it created for many white veterans. _________
The Morgan Dozen: The Story of the Black Army Generals the Baltimore school produced. Morgan is one of the top producers of Black Army generals, since its ROTC program opened in 1948. This film will tell the story of these men, who rose to the top ranks of the American military during the good times and bad of race relations in this country.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW. MORGAN. EDU / SGJC or contact Osaretin Iyare at osaretin. iyare @ morgan. edu
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