KNOXVILLE'S RED SUMMER: THE RIOT OF 1919 chronicles the unrest that occurred in Knoxville following the murder of Bertie Lindsey and the attempted lynching of the accused, Maurice Mays.

Knoxville's Red Summer includes rediscovered news reel footage of the city, post-riot from 1919.

This film was made possible through the materials, audio, and partnerships of:
The Beck Cultural Exchange Center
The McClung Collection
The Tennessee Archives of Moving Images and Sound
The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The Sherman Grinberg Film Library

And through the support of:
The Open Society Foundation
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⁣We are still under attack. How can there be repair, if there’s no resolution?

⁣This is the modern-day story of a Black native peoples' remarkable victory
over western colonial terrorism. A Pacific island rose up in arms against
giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won despite a
military occupation and blockade. When RTZ decided to step up production
at the Panguna Mine on the island of Bougainville, they got more than
they bargained for.

The island's Black people had enough of seeing their environment ruined and
being treated as pawns by RTZ. RTZ refused to compensate them, so the
people decided it was time to put an end to outside interference in the
islands affairs. To do this they forcibly closed down the mine.

The Papua New Guinea Army (PNGDF) were mobilized in an attempt to put
down the rebellion. The newly formed Bougainville Revolutionary Army
(BRA) began the fight with bows & arrows and sticks & stones.
Against a heavily armed adversary they still managed to retain control
of most of their island.

Realizing they were beaten on the ground, the PNGDF imposed a gunboat
blockade around Bougainville, in an attempt to strangle the BRA into
submission. But the blockade seemed to have little or no effect. With no
shipments getting in or out of the island, how did new electricity
networks spring up in BRA held territory? How were BRA troops able to
drive around the island without any source of petrol or diesel?

What was happening within the blockade was an environmental and
spiritual revolution. The ruins of the old Panguna mine were being
recycled... to supply the raw materials for the worlds first
eco-revolution.

⁣Narrated by Actor, Sahr Ngaujah who played Fela in the Broadway Musical and featuring an excerpt from the documentary “Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense”.

⁣Narrated by Actor, Sahr Ngaujah who played Fela in the Broadway Musical and featuring an excerpt from the 1978 concert “Fela At the Berlin Jazz Festival”.

⁣Narrated by Actor, Sahr Ngaujah who played Fela in the Broadway Musical and featuring an excerpt from the 1978 concert “Fela At the Berlin Jazz Festival”.

⁣Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, STEALING AFRICA is an investigative story of global trade and political corruption where money and natural resources only flow one way, and in the meantime poverty becomes harder to escape.

⁣A sizeable shoal of Sardines proves to be quite a magnet for a variety of different sea predators. Surprisingly, none of the predators on display attack each other, instead they corral the ball of fish, taking turns to eat.

⁣Baba Mwalimu Baruti & Dr. Oya Ma'at

Primer Encuentro de Esgrima con Machete y Bordón. Puerto Tejada, Colombia, 2014.
Colombian Fencing, also called Machete and Stick Fencing, is a martial art that is the result of the union between Spanish True Skill and the African stick game. It was born in 1810 when African descendants learned European techniques to serve in the wars of independence commanded by Simón Bolívar.