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[24-Hour Film Feast with Bill Greaves speaker]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during TBAALs 2003 24-Hour Filmfeast featuring filmmaker Bill Greaves over the weekend of February 7-8th. The footage shows a dialogue with a speaker discussing the role of accessibility to information on ones past directly impacts the art of the present. The speaker uses examples of the history of lynchings in the early 20th century in Dallas as his main talking point.
Date: February 7, 2003
Duration: 29 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis & Greaves, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[1st Naomi Bruton arts scholarship award winner]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded following "Talking Funny With Hot Blues & Jazz" Saturday's performance. The footage shows the awarding of the 1st Naomi Burton Arts Scholarship. Performer Cece Antoinette is Naomi Brutons daughter.
Date: April 7, 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Antoinette, Cece; Kemp, Emme & King, Curtis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[22nd annual youth arts institute closeup camera]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during final performance of the summer arts institute entitled 'Djaamana' Deen,' on July 7th, 2006. The footage shows children ages 10-17 performing a variety of dance and musical sections. The camera focuses on close-ups of the stage and participants.
Date: July 7, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 01 second
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[22nd youth arts institute "Djaamana Deen" performance]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during final performance of the summer arts institute entitled 'Djaamana' Deen,' on July 7th, 2006. The footage shows children ages 10-17 performing a variety of dance and musical sections.
Date: July 7, 2006
Duration: 59 minutes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[5th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance Master Class 1]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 5th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance held on February 6-7th, 2009. The footage shows a dance workshop being held on the Naomi Bruton main stage. The participants vary in age and wear casual athleisure clothing.
Date: February 7, 2009
Duration: 2 hours 40 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[5th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance Master Class 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 5th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance held on February 6-7th, 2009. The footage shows a dance workshop being held on the Naomi Bruton main stage. The participants vary in age and wear casual athleisure clothing.
Date: February 7, 2009
Duration: 2 hours 40 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[5th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance performance 2 of 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 5th annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance live performance held on February 7th, 2009 at the Naomi Bruton Theatre. The footage shows dancers performing in a contemporary style to a gospel/ soul soundtrack.
Date: February 7, 2009
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Audience members dancing at the Reggae in the Caribbean event]

Description: Photograph of audience members in the foreground, dancing to the music played by Ras Tumba - a reggae band. In the background Ras Tumba the vocalist is seen bent over, Ras Kumba is smiling while strumming the guitar, and Ras Trabal plays the keys. This photograph was taken at the Reggae in the Caribbean event sponsored by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.
Date: March 7, 2003
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["The Barrett Sisters" concert]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during "The Barrett Sisters" gospel concert held on October 7th, 2000. The footage shows the three sisters singing together their many gospel classics.
Date: October 7, 2000
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 13 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Billy Preston on Good Day KDFW]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a televised broadcast of channel 4 news in December of 2001 featuring a performance by Billy Preston. The VHS footage shows Preston giving a piano and jazz vocal performance in relation to an upcoming performance of his tour "Will It Go Round in Circles" at the black academy.
Date: December 7, 2001
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Preston, Billy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Black master dance class taking place on a large stage]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Black Dance Master Class held on the Naomi Bruton Theatre stage on February 7th, 2009. The footage shows a man leading a dance workshop with both men and women participants with various stretches and coordinated movements. The class was held as a part of the 5th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance Rhythm and Soul of a People.
Date: February 7, 2009
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 26 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Channel 5 celebrity "Roast-N-Toast" PSAs]

Description: Video footage provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded on Channel 5 of two PSAs for the Roast-N-Toast event for Curtis King to be held on Saturday December 7th, 1991. The footage lists the celebrities to be present to roast King, location, date, and time.
Date: December 7, 1991
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: Channel 5
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Close-up of keyboard player]

Description: Photograph of an unknown keyboard player wearing a Carl McCain Foundation cap. This musician played alongside fellow band mates in an unknown reggae band playing at the Reggae in the Caribbean event sponsored by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.
Date: March 7, 2003
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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