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["My One Good Nerve" Ruby Dee stage reading video]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Valentines' day weekend performance by Ruby Dee of "My One Good Nerve". The footage shows a stage with palm trees and Ruby Dee standing to the right behind a podium. The reading encompasses Dee's reflections on marriage, raising children, and the state of being black in America in the 20th century through the lens of black womanhood.
Date: February 14, 1999
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Dee, Ruby
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Whosoever Will Prayer Band" theatre performance video]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the New Arts six performance of "Whoever Will Prayer" at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre on April 11th, 1999. The footage shows the New Arts Six, which is a performance group of six African American women native to Dallas Texas who began in 1981, performing a two act musical about a Wednesday prayer and music group taking place in the South in 1938.
Date: April 11, 1999
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: New Arts Six
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Video of the Kankouran Dance Company performance]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters performance by the Kankouran West African Dance Company on April 17, 1999. The event was hosted by the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. The video records the 50-minute performance of drummers and dancers playing four traditional West African pieces titled "Baak", "Bantaba", "Mansonko" and "Sabar".
Date: April 17, 1999
Duration: 52 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Konte, Assane & Gueye, Medoune
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Steven Meeks performing for his new CD "A Long Time Coming"]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their event hosted by Omega Psi Psi Fraternity of Steve Meeks performing a 2 hour concert featuring his new jazz album "A Long Time Coming" on April 10th 1999. The VHS footage is generally dark but shows Meeks on stage with a small jazz band at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre.
Date: April 10, 1999
Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Meeks, Steven
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Roger Boykin and Herman Samples at Garland Exhibit]

Description: Photograph of Roger Boykin (left) posing next to Herman Samples (right) in front of an exhibit wall labeled "Jazz LegendsFestival: A Tribute to Red Garland." They are visible from the chest up, facing the camera, and various framed collages are partially visible behind them, including photos, newspaper clippings, and album covers.
Date: June 12, 1999
Creator: Marshall, Marion
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.771554 -96.757485
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Press release: The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther Kings Birthday - 500 Voice Choir Performs at the 16th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert]

Description: Press release from the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters discussing the annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert hosted on January 17, 1999 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center to celebrate the birthday of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date: January 13, 1999
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Video tape of "Benny Andrew's: The Visible Man"]

Description: Video footage of an artist talk with a signed VHS box from artist Benny Andrews titled "The Invisible Man". The artist talk coverers Andrew's life, education, and studio practice to place him in the context of black working artists in America in the 20th century. Andrews's work covers "people at work" and the role the individual plays in society through collage and painting. Benny spoke at an event hosted by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters from June 5 to August 28, 1999, at the Jam… more
Date: [1999-06-05..1999-08-28]
Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Freeman, Linda & Holder, Jeoffrey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Public service announcement for Kankouran Dance Company]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a performance by the Kankouran West African Dance Company on April 17, 1999. The event was hosted by the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. The commercial shows clips of dancers performing under a news anchor's narration of the date, time, and location of the performance.
Date: April 17, 1999
Duration: 37 seconds
Creator: Konte, Assane & Gueye, Medoune
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774732 -96.798716
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[KanKouran Dance Company "promo" video shown on KHAS-TV]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in promotion of the Kankouran West African Dance Company for their performance to be held April 17, 1999. The event was hosted by the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. The commercial shows clips of dancers performing under a news anchor's narration of the date, time, and location of the performance.
Date: Spring 1999
Duration: 28 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["A Long Time Coming: The Music of Steven Meeks" concert video]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during Dallas-based composer and musician Steven Meeks's debut album performance. The footage shows various speakers preceding the concert. The music performed ranges from jazz, ballads and Brazilian dance music as outlined in the press release and program. A small brass and percussion ensemble accompany Steven Meeks.
Date: April 10, 1999
Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 16 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[TBAAL R&B concert featuring Dee Dee Warwick]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 23rd season of an R&B concert featuring Dee Dee Warwick accompanied by a small jazz ensemble at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The tape is well recorded and opens with a piano soloist followed by Dee Dee coming on stage to perform various jazz and R&B style numbers.
Date: October 16, 1999
Duration: 48 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Warwick, Dee Dee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Benny Andrews artist talk and luncheon]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during Benny Andrews artist talk and luncheon. The luncheon was held in conjunction with Benny Andrews's exhibit that was held in June of 1999 in the James E. Kemp gallery. The tape includes speakers such as Curtis King.
Date: June 12, 1999
Duration: 46 minutes 10 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[African Americans in film: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee clips]

Description: Video recording provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded to celebrate African Americans in film. The footage shows clips of actors Ossie Davis in "Get On the Bus" (1996), "Do The Right Thing" (1989), "Through The Eyes of Ossie Davis" (1980), "No Way Out" (1950), and "Buck & The Preacher" (1991), The tape includes two clips for Ruby Dee with the footage ending with her performing in "A Raisin In The Sun" (1961).
Date: 1999
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Literary voices series: "When All Hell Breaks Loose"]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Literary Voices Series event featuring young adult author Camika Spencer. The event is titled "When All Hell Breaks Loose" and was held Sunday, December 12th, 1999 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The footage shows Spencer giving a book talk on her debut novel on 'black twenty-somethings".
Date: December 12, 1999
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Spencer, Camika & King, Curtis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Jazz pianist Kim Jordan live event]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during jazz pianist Kim Jordan's live concert held on December 11th, 1999, at the Clarence Muse Café Theater. The footage shows Jordan performing with a small jazz ensemble in a debut performance of her new CD "All For You".
Date: December 11, 1999
Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Jordan, Kim & King, Curtis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Benny Andrew's: The Visible Man" artist talk]

Description: Video footage of an artist talk with a signed VHS box from artist Benny Andrews titled "The Invisible Man". The artist talk coverers Andrew's life, education, and studio practice to place him in the context of black working artists in America in the 20th century. Andrews's work covers "people at work" and the role the individual plays in society through collage and painting. Benny spoke at an event hosted by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters from June 5 to August 28, 1999, at the Jam… more
Date: 1999
Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Freeman, Linda & Holder, Jeoffrey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Fabric for Life" exhibition walkthrough]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the spring 1999 art exhibition "Fabric for Life" featuring five African American female fiber artists. The footage shows an unnarrated walkthrough of the gallery space hung with quilts and ends with a shot of the program for the exhibition. The exhibition features the work of Diana Petterson, Peggy Hartwell, Anita Holman Knox, Ed Johnetta Miller, Aundra McCoy, and Carolyn Mazloomi.
Date: Spring 1999
Duration: 3 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Petterson, Diana; Hartwell, Peggy; Knox, Anita Holman; McCoy, Aundra; Mazloomi, Carolyn & Miller, Ed Johnetta
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[16th annual "Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert" live performance]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 16th annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert held on January 17th, 1999 at the Meyerson Symphony center. The concert is entitled "A Reflection of the Century... The Music and Its Leaders" and includes various featured vocalists. The concert is split into four sections honoring 1900-1929, 1930-1959, 1960-1989, and 1990-1999.
Date: January 17, 1999
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.789971 -96.798679
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Denice Brooks at the Austin Jazz Festival live set]

Description: Video footage provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 1999 Austin Jazz festival set of Denise Brooks. The footage shows Brooks singing on an outdoor stage accompanied by guitar and drums.
Date: October 10, 1999
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Brooks, Denice
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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