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Each released documentary has one watch and detail page. Its companion stories explain the people, events, regions, and sources behind the film, with links to relevant artifacts and places.
7 published records.
- Building Black Prosperity Where We Live
Episode 4 of Our History, Our Home, Our Future looks at Maggie Lena Walker, the Independent Order of St. Luke and the community infrastructure built through savings, credit, work and local institutions.
- Imagining a Country of Our Own
Episode 5 of Our History, Our Home, Our Future imagines a sovereign Black political home through public services, accountability, belonging and peaceful relations.
- Land, Ownership, and the Foundations of a Community
Episode E03 of Our History, Our Home, Our Future follows New Communities and the community land trust idea behind shared land, home and future value.
- Making a Home in Africa
Episode 6 of Our History, Our Home, Our Future follows an imagined household considering Ghana while separating heritage, residence, citizenship, land, work and neighboring.
- The Green Book: How a Community Opened the Road
A Defeat History documentary on Magnolia House, the Green Book, and the community network that helped Black travelers find practical options on the road.
- The Lives and Histories Carried Across the Atlantic
Episode 7 follows the 1774 Savannah broadside beyond a seller's count, centering African lives, the forced Atlantic crossing, and the limits of surviving records.
- What Knowing Our History Makes Possible
Episode 1 of Our History, Our Home, Our Future follows Carter G. Woodson, Victor and Alma Green, and Maggie L. Walker to show what knowing Black history makes possible.
Supplementary stories
Sources and explainers for assigned series and episodes. Pending video relationships are labelled; a story is not a documentary release.
- A Country Is Made of Public Life, Not Just Borders
A companion story for E05 that slows down the civic questions behind imagining a sovereign Black political home: public services, voice, respectful African partnerships and peaceful legal boundaries.
Companion to a public documentary
- Carter G. Woodson’s Office-Home Made History Reach Readers
A sourced companion story on Woodson's Washington office-home, where research, publishing, mentorship and mailing made Black history available to readers beyond the house.
Companion to a public documentary
- How a Community Land Trust Separates Land, Home, and Future Value
Community land trusts separate land stewardship from homeownership so one household’s opportunity can remain connected to the next household’s chance to buy.
Companion to a public documentary
- How Antera Duke’s Diary Helps Us See One African World
How Antera Duke's diary opens one specific Efik world in Old Calabar while reminding us whose voices survive and whose do not.
Assigned companion story — public video pending; no release claimed.
- How Maggie Walker Made a Bank Into Community Infrastructure
Maggie Lena Walker used the Independent Order of St. Luke network to turn savings, stock, work and credit into durable community infrastructure in Richmond.
Companion to a public documentary
- How the Green Book Turned Local Knowledge Into a Road Network
Magnolia House and the Green Book show how Black hospitality, publishing labor and reader contributions turned local knowledge into a tool travelers could carry.
Companion to a public documentary
- How to Read a Seller’s Count Without Losing African Lives
A guide to reading the 1774 Savannah sale notice with care: what it proves, what it cannot recover, and why African lives must not be reduced to a seller's count.
Companion to a public documentary
- Making a Home in Ghana: Residence, Land, Work, and Neighboring
A sourced companion to Making a Home in Africa, separating heritage, residence, citizenship, land rights, work, and reciprocal participation in Ghana.
Companion to a public documentary
Companion reading and learning
Source notes, historical chronologies, explainers, and learning material belong with their documentary, not in a separate competing encyclopedia. No planned series listed elsewhere is a public release.
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