Stanley Nelson has been making movies for a long time, and his latest film – airing Monday, February 19th on PBS – called “Tell Them We Are Rising” is the first of its kind fo explore the topic of Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs.
NYC native Stanley talked to me about his personal connection to these schools, their place in our history and in our national culture, and how they’re uniquely stuck “between a rock and a hard place” in Trump’s America.
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“Tell Them We Are Rising” trailer
“Black Colleges in the Age of Trump” NY Times Op-Doc
“Fast Facts on HBCUs” (National Center for Education Statistics)
“The Changeing Face of HBCUS” (U Penn/MaryBeth Gasman)
“Blacks and Hispanics are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago” (NY Times)
Brown-Tougaloo College Partnership
“Harvard’s Next President: Another ‘White Male Economist Named Larry'” (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
“Eluding the Endowment Tax” (Inside Higher Ed)
“It’s Time to Bust the Myth: Most Trump Voters Were Not Working Class” (WaPo)
“My Little Hundred Million” (Revisionist History Podcast)