Video, Audio and Slideshows

Anthony Perry, a senior at St. Francis High School in Louisville, Kentucky organized a conference held at the Muhammad Ali Center on the school to prison pipeline. The conference, titled "A 360º View of the School to Prison Pipeline: Changing Policies, Changing Outcomes" was inspired, in part, by Michelle Alexander's, author of the book, The New Jim Crow.

"How can an individual influence the path of a nation?" Tarrant High School (Tarrant, Alabama) social studies teacher Beth Sanders asked her 11th graders this essential question during the 2012-2013 school year. She then used the Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits and website to explore this question with her students. 

Amiri Baraka tells the story of Paul Robeson´s life and commitment to social justice.

Listen and watch Paul Robeson sing Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II´s famous song, "Ol´ Man River." This recording was made in 1936. 

Jonathan Kozol talks about "Education in America" at Amherst College.

Jonathan Kozol speaks in 2005 about his book "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America."

Britain´s "greatest talk show host" Sir Michael Parkinson interviews Muhammad Ali.

This Oscar winning, 1996 film deals not only with Muhammad Ali the boxer places one of the most famous men in the world in a historical cultural and political context.

In this interview with Mike McCormick, producer of the KEXP radio show, Mind Over Matters, Frances Moore Lappé discusses her book, Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad.

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen perform "This Land is Your Land" at President Obama´s first inauguration.

Listen to Woody Guthrie sing "This Land is Your Land". 

Kathy Kelly gives a talk in 2009 entitled "War Is Not a Game" about a trip to Gaza.

As part of a February 2007 Voices of a People´s History of the United States event, Alfre Woodard reads Sojourner Truth´s famous, "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.

See the trailer to documentary, Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun. Read more about the film in the Resources section on the Zora Neale Hurston portrait page.

Listen to Alice Walker read from Zora Neale Hurston´s beautiful novel,Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Wendell Berry read for an hour from his Port William stories at Warren Wilson College on November 9, 2011.

Bill McKibben introduces Wendell Berry in 2009 at George Washington University. Scroll down to watch the video of Berry reading a poem about hope and place.  

Wendell Berry speaks at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth´s "I Love Mountains Day" in 2008.

Listen to Torias Uncle read the The Forethought and Chapter 1 of The Souls of Black Folks.

Doris Granny D Haddock, one of the leading fighters for campaign finance reform in the United States, died on Tuesday at the age of 100. In 1999, just shy of her ninetieth birthday, Granny D walked 3,200 miles across the country to promote campaign finance reform.

97-year-old Granny D gives a speech at the Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Actor Danny Glover reads abolitionist Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (July 5, 1852).

James Earl Jones reads excerpts from Frederick Douglass' speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (July 5, 1852).

Q'Orianka Kilcher reads Chief Joseph's account of his 1879 trip to Washington, DC. Part of a reading of Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove) at All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA on February 1, 2007.

Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields presents a history of the Mexican American fight for Civil Rights.

Part 2 of Randy Shaw´s talk about his book, Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century.

Part 1 of Randy Shaw´s talk about his book, Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century.

Watch Cesar Chavez being interviewed during the Delano Grape Strike. Strikers have been shot and Chavez wants to know who is behind it. The interview gets heated and strong language is used, showing viewers today how high the stakes were in the United Farm Workers´ fight for rights and dignity. 

Watch and listen as Martin Luther King Jr. delivers what was to be his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream", at the March on Washington.

In a moment of profound national grief and pain, Robert F. Kennedy, who had lost his own brother only five years early and would be assassinated himself within months, announces the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and recommends that people choose love over hate.

Three days after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, Nina Simone sang this song. It was performed on April 7, 1968 at the at the Westbury Music Fair and was written by Gene Taylor, Simone´s bass player.  

At The River I Stand is a powerful film about Memphis Santitation Workers´Strike and Marting Luther King Jr. It was directed by David Appleby, Allison Graham and Steven Ross. It was released in 1993 and is 58 minutes long. 

He was there at most of the important events of the Civil Rights Movement — but always in the background. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin asks “Why?” It presents a vivid drama, intermingling the personal and the political, about one of the most enigmatic figures in 20th-century American history.

James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, David Schoenbrun, and Joseph Mankiewicz discuss the 1963 March on Washington in this remarkable film.

Listen to John Hunter´s acclaimed 2011 Ted Talk. 

Frances Crowe discusses her involvement in the anti-war movement, bringing Democracy Now! to Northampton and other events in her life.

Listen to Sweet Honey in the Rock perform Bernice Johnson Reagon´s great "Ella´s Song" about the Civil Rights activist, Ella Baker. 

You can read the lyrics to the song on Ms. Johnson Reagon´s website. 

Russell Libby (read his BIO and see is AWTT Portrait here) planted his first garden after getting free seeds at the end of fourth grade.

Listen to Michelle Alexander´s lecture at the Demos Organization from February 18, 2010.

Listen to Dave Davies´ January 16, 2012 interview with Michelle Alexander for Fresh Air.

AWTT Truth Teller, Zoe Weil talks about creating a generation of "solutionaries" and providing "every student with the knowledge, tools and motivation to to be conscientious choicemakers and engaged changemakers for a restored, healthy and humane world for all."

The Democracy Song is composed by jazz musician Mary Anne Driscoll from the words of Peace Leader and author Paul K. Chappell, whose portrait is included in Maine artist Robert Shetterly's "Americans Who Tell the Truth" series. Driscoll performed the song when Chappell spoke at Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine, as part of its "War on Peace" exhibit, which included the work of Maine Master artist Alan Magee as well. The event occurred Oct. 26, 2012.

An exhibit of 42 AWTT portraits opened at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky at the end of August 2012 and can be seen there until November 7, 2012. Among those featured in this video are Louisville Mayor, Greg Fischer, Ali Center president and CEO, Donald Lassere, and AWTT artist, Robert Shetterly. The video was made by Will Huston.

Following an Operation Breaking Stereotypes exchange in 2007, Welcome to My World tells the story of two groups of teenagers from disparate walks of life and what happens when they come together. Operation Breaking Stereotypes is an AWTT partner.

In January 2012, Robert Shetterly spent a week as an artist-in-residence at St. Edward´s University in Austin, Texas. He and the artist and activist, Lily Yeh, were there at the invitation of the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance. During that time, Robert and Lily had the chance to speak with the KLRU Collective, a program of Austin´s public television station, KLRU.