Research Guides: Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at the Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA): Watch x Listen

Films: Iconic Scenes of Black Rest

The following films can be reserved through NYU's Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media (AFC). The AFC is located on the 7th floor of Bobst Library. Our collections consist of more than 40,000 videos (including U.S. and foreign cinema, drama and music performances, documentaries, art films, and more) and more than 95,000 audio recordings (including music from the broadest spectrum of classical, traditional, and popular artists, genres, and cultures). Our viewing and listening facilities support a variety of analog and digital formats.

Daughters of the Dust
Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century.
Waiting to Exhale
The story of four African-American women who journey through a modern labyrinth of husbands and lovers, jobs and makeovers.
The Inkwell
A quiet teenager lets himself go at the parties of his friends at Martha's Vineyard.
Soul Food
Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird.

Public Presentations

Keynote: Designing Rest as a Practice with Tricia Hersey
Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possibilities at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Keynote: Self Care and Community Organizing: Health, Wellness and Black Lives Matter
Fair Trade Campaigns Virtual 2020 National Conference Plenary Panel with activist-scholar, Funmilola Fagbamalia.
The Real Reason Why We are Tired and What to do About It
TEDx Talks Atlanta with Board Certified internal medicine physician, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith.

Public Playlists by The Nap Ministry

The following playlists have been curated by Nap Ministry on Spotify. If you're not a Spotify user, recreations of these playlists can be found on Youtube and SoundCloud. In these cases, the creator is not Nap Ministry, but folks who have taken up the task of recreating these playlists on freely accessible platforms.