TALKING BLACK IN AMERICA — PERFORMANCE TRADITIONS is now available on DVD! You can be one of the first to watch the latest installment of the Emmy award winning Talking Black In America series, before it hits our YouTube channel.
TALKING BLACK IN AMERICA — PERFORMANCE TRADITIONS explores African American artistic forms like the Blues, Spirituals, Spoken Word, Preaching, Comedy and Hip Hop to reveal a story about the creative use of African American Language and its function as a tool for survival, liberation and belonging within the Black Community. Filmed across the United States, it is the fourth program in the Emmy Award winning TALKING BLACK IN AMERICA series, five interrelated documentaries on African American language and culture and their transformative influence on the United States and beyond.
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