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  [CamNet on Independent Eye]

  1992 Election, Black, Chicago, Nancy Cain, Performance, Politics, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll, THE 90's, Videomakers

  Judith Binder and Nancy Cain introduce an episode of CamNet on KCET’s Independent Eye.

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  Speakin’ of the Blues: Larry Hoffman

  Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Communities, Events, Performance

  Barry Dolins interviews Larry Hoffman on his Blues composition, accompanied by a performance of the composition from the New Millenium Orchestra String Quartet.

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  [Benson Hedges Blues Fest, tape 1]

  Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Communities, Performance

  Performances and interviews from the Benson Hedges Blues Fest captured by Barry Dolins.

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  5117 N Kenmore

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, CLIR, Politics, Roots of Video

  The tenants at 5117 N. Kenmore describe the appalling living conditions of their apartments. A new edit of footage shot in Chicago in 1979.

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  The Energy Task Force of the Organization of the Northeast

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, CLIR, Communications for Change, Outside Agitators, Politics, Roots of Video

  An overview of activism undertaken by residents of Chicago’s Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods to protest a 19% rate hike from Com-Ed in 1980. A new edit of footage shot in 1980.

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  [Power to the People raw: interviews with Deborah Johnson and Bobby Rush]

  Black, Chicago, Communities

  This video features camera original interviews with Deborah Johnson, December 4th Committee, and member, Black Panther Party in 1969, as well as then-Alderman Bobby Rush, who was also the former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party. The footage was shot for “Power to the People” [1989 | 26 minutes], which was made for the December 4th Committee at Kartemquin Films. Director, Peter Kuttner.“Power to the People” speaks to Black, Latino and White activists who worked with and […]

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  [The Olmsted Legacy: Long Version & Talk Show]

  Arts & Culture, Chicago, Eleanor Bingham Miller

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  Halsted Street, USA

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Latinx

  Along the length of Chicago’s Halsted Street one can view a dozen nationalities and a thousand lifestyles. This riveting, kaleidoscopic “road movie” traces this unique thoroughfare nearly 400 miles, from its origin in the cornfields of southern Illinois up to Chicago’s far south side, then through several neighborhoods to its terminus in the heart of Lakeview. Narrated by Studs Terkel, Halsted Street, U.S.A. is a thought-provoking crash-course in American cultural geography.