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!
![Becoming Frederick Douglass with a photo of Frederick Douglass](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BecomingFrederickDouglass-428x240.jpg)
Becoming Frederick Douglass Educational Resources
![Fight The Power How Hip Hop Changed the World](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FightThePower-428x240.jpg)
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World On-Demand
![Dreamland Musical Group Performing on a Stage](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/dreamland-428x240.jpg)
Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street On-Demand
![Zora Neale Hurston](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ZoraNealeHurstonAMEX-428x240.jpg)
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space On-Demand
![Photo: Delores Jackson Radney, Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/kwanzaa_dolores-428x240.jpg)
Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa On-Demand
![Prelude The Legacy of Garth Fagan Dance](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/prelude_highlight-428x240.jpg)
Prelude: The Legacy of Garth Fagan Dance On-Demand
![](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/mezzanine_265-428x240.jpg)
Flight to Freedom On-Demand
![Dr. Walter Cooper](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/waltercooper_0-428x240.jpg)
Norm & Company: Dr. Walter Cooper On-Demand
![Martin Luther King Jr. Making Speech](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/mlk_crop-1024x650-1024x650-1-428x240.jpg)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Classroom Resources
![East Lake Meadows Public Housing](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/eastlakemeadowsgraphic-428x240.jpg)
Redlining, Housing and Civil Rights Classroom Resources
![PBS LearningMedia](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pbslearningmedia_cmyk_blue-1.png)
Education Resources on Race, Racism, Civil Rights, & Diversity
![Photo of T-town](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/t-town-428x240.jpg)
Goin’ Back to T-Town On-Demand
![Searching for Timbuctoo Poster](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/searching_for_timbuctoo-428x240.jpg)
Searching for Timbuctoo On-Demand:
![Sesame Street Explaining What is Race](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SSICExplainingWhatIsRace-image-667x500-1-428x240.jpg)
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.](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/thetalk_0-428x240.jpg)
Black History & Culture Video Playlist On-Demand
![Celebrate Some African American Contributions](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/WXXICelebratesAfricanAmericanContributions-428x240.jpg)
Celebrating African-American Contributions On-Demand
![PBS KIDS Talk About: Race and Racism](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/talkabout-raceracism-428x240.jpg)
PBS KIDS: Talk About: Race and Racism
![Shawn Dunwoody and Norm Silverstein on the set of Norm & Company](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/norm_and_shawn_2-428x240.jpg)
Norm & Company: Shawn Dunwoody On-Demand
![](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/db1876_sm-428x240.jpg)
Driving While Black On-Demand
![Code Switch NPR Podcast on Race, Politics and Culture](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/codeswitch.jpg)
Code Switch Podcast from NPR
![Garth Fagan](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fagan_garth_1_1.jpg)
Norm & Company: Garth Fagan On-Demand
![James Norman being interview by Host Norm Sliverstein](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/norm_co_204_norman_a_pm-428x240.jpg)
Norm & Company: James Norman On-Demand
![Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fightingofbothfronts.jpg)
Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th On-Demand
![Photo of a black family](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/redliningMappingInequality-428x240.jpg)
Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield On-Demand
![A dancer is arched in the air ready to be caught by the troupe](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AfroPop15-428x240.jpg)
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange | Season 15 On-Demand
![PBS LearningMedia](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pbslearningmedia_cmyk_blue-1.png)
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](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/RazingOndemand.jpg)
Razing Liberty Square On-Demand
![A Black woman and a Black man stand back to back holding mics on a stage](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/vbyTJXA-asset-mezzanine-16x9-2wna7RG-428x240.jpg)
Stories from the Stage • Fridays at 2:30 p.m. on WXXI-WORLD
![Niagara Movement The Early Movement for Civil Rights (Niagara Falls and Civil Rights Leaders pictured)](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/NiagaraMovement-428x240.png)
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](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/BlackStoriesBlackTruthsLG-428x240.jpg)
NPR Black Stories, Black Truths:
![Hand holding up a white and red megaphone](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/breakingthenews-428x240.jpg)
Independent Lens: Breaking the News On-Demand
![Two women hugging](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/RunningWithMyGirls-428x240.jpg)
Running with My Girls On-Demand
![Woman Storyteller Standing on a Stage with a microphone](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/extraordinarywomen-428x240.jpg)
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.](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/maxresdefault-428x240.jpg)
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands On-Demand
![Alice Holloway Young in 2018 at WXXI Studios](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/alicehollowayyoung-428x240.jpg)
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](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/8474e70550_Great-Performances-Audra-McDonald-at-the-London-Palladium-1440x560-1-428x240.jpg)
Great Performances: Audra McDonald at the London Palladium • On-Demand
![Two Black men in Porter uniforms stand in front of a train. Additional porters in the background.](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ThePorter-428x240.jpg)
The Porter • Saturdays at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV
![A Black man in a navy three piece suite and white button down shirt is about to take off the jacket and is smiling](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GP_PURLIE-VICTORIOUS_14-428x240.jpg)
Great Performances: Purlie Victorious • On-Demand
![World June Films & Features](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/JuneViewersGuide_1920x1080-428x240.jpg)
Immigrant Heritage, Pride & Juneteenth: What to Watch in June • WXXI-WORLD
![Two black teen girls, one looking out of the photo, the other giving a sidelong glance](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/colorism-428x240.jpg)
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.](https://www.wxxi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/RHHJ4U4-asset-mezzanine-16x9-8xRIKpQ-428x240.jpg)