TED Talks
The Great Migration and the power of a single decision
Sometimes, a single decision can change the course of history. Join journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson as she tells the story of the Great Migration, the outpouring of six million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to cities...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - Teachers Make a Difference - Michael S. Harper
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Economists Need the Arts
Engaging in music, literature and the arts is essential for understanding context and human behavior—which economists so often miss The study of humanities is often considered an impractical pursuit—a luxury endeavor only the rich can...
Amphio
Liberation in the Ninth
Journalist Paul Morley talks about the feeling of craving for freedom that you hear within Beethoven's Ninth and how this compares to contemporary pop music.
Curated Video
Nicolas Cage teams with 'Crank' directors for a 'Ghost Rider' sequel
AP Entertainment
San Diego, 22 July 2011
1. Wide Comic-Con entrance
2. Wide Nicolas Cage talks to reporter at Comic-Con
3. Medium Cage talks to reporter
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas Cage/Actor, on 'Ghost Rider' sequel:
"The comic...
Curated Video
Roskilde Festival Day 3
1.Wide of fire show/Actress/Man banging drums surrounded by fire 2.Wide of fire show
3./Various of Pet Shop Boys on stage performing New York City Boy 4.Wide of tents-
5.Girl getting out of tent in the morning
6.Girl washing hair in...
Curated Video
4:3 File footage of Indian sitar virtuoso who has died, aged 92
FILE: New Delhi, 11 March 2002
1. Ravi Shankar on stage, greets crowd and sits down for concert with daughter Anoushka Shankar
2. Close-up of Anoushka
3. Ravi Shankar and Anoushka on stage
4. Ravi Shankar playing Indian instrument...
Curated Video
Former New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka is among several poets who used the election of Barack Obama as inspiration to write
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died. He was 79.
His booking agent,...
Curated Video
Preview to jazz memorabilia auction
1. Wide shot jazz items for auction
2. Dizzy Gillespie trumpet
3. Benny Goodman clarinet
4. Charlie Parker saxophone
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey's auctioneers:
"So, how do you estimate this? You bring it...
Curated Video
Aretha Franklin makes history with posthumous Pulitzer win
ARETHA FRANKLIN GIVEN AN HONORARY PULITZER PRIZE
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Johnny Hartman, "The Romantic Balladeer"
Johnny Hartman's beautiful baritone voice can be heard by clicking on "Hear Songs" on this website. You can also read a brief biography and listen to the jazz profile about him on NPR.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Peak Performances From the Village Vanguard
The Village Vanguard is a world famous 'jazz joint'. Listen to performances of five jazz musicians who had the privilege of playing there.