grandmasterflash-message.mp4

"Caldonia," Louis Jordan soundie

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "The Lonesome Road," 1941 soundie

Duke Ellington - Flamingo (with Herb Jeffries) 1941

Dr. John, Iko Iko

James Booker, "True"

Allen Toussiant, St. James Infirmary

Professor Longhair, Tipitina

Allen Toussaint discusses Professor Longhair

Professor Longhair, Bald Head

Ada Leonard orchestra, 1943

"I Wanna Be Loved By You," from "Some Like It Hot," 1959

International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Betty Boop in Snow White, 1933

N.W.A., "Straight Outta Compton," 1986

50 Cent, "Many Men" short film, 2003

Richard Pryor, That Nigger's Crazy album, 1974

Richard Pryor, Live at the Sunset Strip, 1982

Martin Luther King, PBS interview with Kenneth B. Clark, 1963

Malcolm X, speech in New York, 1964

Miles Davis and John Coltrane, "So What," 1959

Malcolm X, PBS interview with Kenneth Clark, 1963

Martin Luther King, speech in Montgomery, AL, 1965

The Crew Cuts, "Sh-Boom," 1954

Little Richard, Tutti Frutti

Ella Fitzgerald, "Angel Eyes"

Duke Ellington, "Take the A Train"

Louis Armstrong in Betty Boop, "I'll Be Glad..."

Louis Armstrong, "A Rhapsody in Black and Blue"