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Introducing Black Stories: A Collection of 30 Short Films

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In the center of the images reads in white text "Black Stories Collection" The text is on top of tall, thin frames of scenes from different movies in the collection. It's a mix of live action and animation.

Black Stories is the latest collection now available to Tulane students, staff, and Faculty through the Library’s Kanopy subscription.  

The Black Stories Collection features award-winning shorts like

I Never Picked Cotton (directed by Hanna Adams) and
Coda (directed by Erika Davis-Marsh).
The collection also includes early cinematic works by well-known filmmakers such as

Channing Godfrey Peoples (Carry Me Home; known for Miss Juneteenth and Doretha’s Blues)
Ryan Coogler (Fig and Locks; known for Sinners, Creed, Black Panther, Fruitvale Station)
Jon M. Chu (Silent Beats; known for Wicked, Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights).  
Several of these shorts are available with public performance rights (PPR), which means you can include them in campus film screening events! Eligible films will have the letters PPR inside a box next to their title information.  

To access the full Black Stories Collection, go to www.kanopy.com/en/tulane and search for “Black Stories.”  

If you want more Black stories from here and around the world, check out KweliTV, where you’ll find films, television series, video podcasts, and so much more from the African diaspora.

lisa Hooper

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