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Celebrating the Culture: Kwanzaa 2025

In honor of Kwanzaa, a holiday celebrated around the world since the mid-1960s, we’re sharing a collection of titles exploring that explore the guiding pillars that keep this tradition close to home, in our communities, and in our hearts. This collection features titles that provide visionary, artfully crafted, and poetic cinematic representations of the cherished values of Kwanzaa.

POV Shorts: The People Could Fly

Video has Closed Captions

S38 Ep802 | 21m 48s | A poetic look at roller rinks as sanctuaries for Black culture, joy, and resistance. (21m 48s)

A Mother Apart

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S38 Ep13 | 1h 23m 5s | Poet and activist Staceyann Chin chronicles her journey of healing, forgiveness, and mothering. (1h 23m 5s)

POV Shorts: Shut Up and Paint

Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions

S35 Ep501 | 24m 2s | An artist’s canvas becomes an embattled space. (24m 2s)

MnM

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Special | 14m 41s | A joyful portrait of Mermaid and Milan, chosen sisters and ballroom divas. (14m 41s)

Over the Wall

Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions

Special | 14m 19s | The Race to Pit Row - NASCAR’s first black woman pit crew member. (14m 19s)

Freshwater

Video has Closed Captions

Special | 9m 43s | A meditation on Detroit unveiling the fluid nature of memory in familial legacies. (9m 43s)

You Can't Stop Spirit

Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions

Special | 15m 7s | Black women create a space for freedom through the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition. (15m 7s)

Are You Down?

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Special | 12m 19s | A portrait of the life and work of Jamaican New Yorker and visual artist Michael Richards. (12m 19s)

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