Black Heritage and Culture

Explore the WXXI Black Heritage and Culture site: Your resource and guide to the films, stories, and voices centered around Black history and culture, current events, and issues. And be sure to visit WXXINews.org for coverage of community events and issues that are important to Rochester and beyond. Explore. Watch. Connect!

Major Taylor riding a bike

Major Taylor: Champion of the Race • WXXI-TV

02/24/2025 9:00 pm WXXI TV

Three men stand together shaking hands.

American Experience “Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP” • WXXI-TV

02/25/2025 9:00 pm WXXI TV

Becoming Frederick Douglass with a photo of Frederick Douglass

Becoming Frederick Douglass Educational Resources

Fight The Power How Hip Hop Changed the World

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World Education Resources

Dreamland Musical Group Performing on a Stage

Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street On-Demand

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space On-Demand

Photo: Delores Jackson Radney, Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition

Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Prelude The Legacy of Garth Fagan Dance

Prelude: The Legacy of Garth Fagan Dance On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Flight to Freedom On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Dr. Walter Cooper

Norm & Company: Dr. Walter Cooper On-Demand

Martin Luther King Jr. Making Speech

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Classroom Resources

East Lake Meadows Public Housing

Redlining, Housing and Civil Rights Classroom Resources

PBS LearningMedia

Education Resources on Race, Racism, Civil Rights, & Diversity

Photo of T-town

Goin’ Back to T-Town On-Demand

Searching for Timbuctoo Poster

Searching for Timbuctoo On-Demand:

Sesame Street Explaining What is Race

Coming Together: Sesame Street Resources on Racial Literacy

Black man facing away wrapped in a U.S. flag with some victims names written on the inside of it that have died due to racism and display backwards on the flag.

Black History & Culture Video Playlist On-Demand

Celebrate Some African American Contributions

Celebrating African-American Contributions On-Demand

PBS KIDS Talk About: Race and Racism

PBS KIDS: Talk About: Race and Racism

Shawn Dunwoody and Norm Silverstein on the set of Norm & Company

Norm & Company: Shawn Dunwoody On-Demand

Driving While Black On-Demand

Code Switch NPR Podcast on Race, Politics and Culture

Code Switch Podcast from NPR

Garth Fagan

Norm & Company: Garth Fagan On-Demand

James Norman being interview by Host Norm Sliverstein

Norm & Company: James Norman On-Demand

Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th

Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th On-Demand

Photo of a black family

Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield On-Demand

A dancer is arched in the air ready to be caught by the troupe

AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange | Season 15 On-Demand

PBS LearningMedia

Resources for Young Children on Race, Racism, & Diversity

Razing Liberty Square Poster Image of a house being demolished by a palm tree in Miami Florida

Razing Liberty Square On-Demand

A Black woman and a Black man stand back to back holding mics on a stage

Stories from the Stage • Fridays at 2:30 p.m. on WXXI-WORLD

WXXI World

Niagara Movement The Early Movement for Civil Rights (Niagara Falls and Civil Rights Leaders pictured)

The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights On-Demand

Black Stories, Black Truths With Photo of Some NPR Black Journalists: Gene Demby, Aisha Harris, Bobby Carter, Sidney Madden, Brittany Luse

NPR Black Stories, Black Truths:

Hand holding up a white and red megaphone

Independent Lens: Breaking the News On-Demand

Two women hugging

Running with My Girls On-Demand

Woman Storyteller Standing on a Stage with a microphone

Extraordinary Women from Stories from the Stage On-Demand

A Black woman with short Black hair and a light colored blouse stares off the side.

Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands On-Demand

Alice Holloway Young in 2018 at WXXI Studios

Norm & Company: Dr. Alice Holloway Young On-Demand

A Black woman with long wavy Black hair wearing a red sleeveless dress has her arms raised as she sings into a microphone

Great Performances: Audra McDonald at the London Palladium • On-Demand

World June Films & Features

Immigrant Heritage, Pride & Juneteenth: What to Watch in June • WXXI-WORLD

WXXI World

Two black teen girls, one looking out of the photo, the other giving a sidelong glance

Colorism in America On-Demand

A photo Black and shite of Little Richard - a Black man with short Black hair and a mustache wearing a light suit and leaf patterned button down shirt.

Little Richard: The King and Queen of Rock and Roll • On-Demand

Silence in Sikeston-A photo of a senior with the head bowed covered by folded hands in grief

Silence in Sikeston • On-Demand

A young Trans Black Woman with long hair, wearing a cream colored suit looks into the camera

American Problems-Trans Solutions • On-Demand

Segregation Scholarships-Black and White photo of black children and teachers outside a school building posing for a photo

Segregation Scholarships • On-Demand

A Black Man with a beard wearing a t-shirt looks out at the camera

First Hand: Segregation • On-Demand

A black woman with short hair and glasses smiles into the camera

Decolonizing Mental Health • On-Demand

Artwork of Black woman kissing a Black baby, with a mural of archival images and cityscape in the background. from RENEGADES Celestine Tate Harrington Building a Legacy

Renegades: Celestine Tate Harrington: Building a Legacy – On-Demand

Thomas Wiggins: Composing the Future: A Black Man in a Purple Suit Sitting at a Grand Piano in a Concert Hall

Renegades: Thomas Wiggins: Composing the Future – On-Demand

Brad Lomax, a black man sitting in a wheelchair with a city scape in the background

Renegades: Brad Lomax: Creating Communities of Care On-Demand

I Love Black History Month Live Stream PBS KIDS Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Black Heros

Black History Month: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: Black Heroes & PBS KIDS specials