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[News Clip: Fort Worth damage]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 26, 2010, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Rick Perry Facebook]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Facebook. Screen shots of the website facebook.com are shown as someone navigates the website. There is no dialogue or voice-over. This story aired on the 4 PM news.
Date: February 25, 2010
Duration: 35 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Ensemble: 2010-04-18 – Symphony Orchestra and Grand Chorus

Description: UNT Symphony Orchestra and UNT Grand Chorus concert performed at the UNT College of Music Murchison Performance Arts Center.
Date: April 18, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Symphony Orchestra.
Partner: UNT Music Library
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["Gospel Night: A Live Recording" tape 2 of 2]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during "Gospel Night: A Live Recording" featuring Israel Houghton, Ann Nesby, and Ruben Studdard. The footage shows behind the scenes rehearsal before the show, interviews with choir members, and close-up shots of soloists from both on stage and in the audience.
Date: October 4, 2010
Duration: 31 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Sam "Shake"; Joseph, Clark & Small, David A
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Gospel Night: A Live Recording" tape 1 of 2]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during "Gospel Night: A Live Recording" featuring Israel Houghton, Ann Nesby, and Ruben Studdard. The footage shows behind the scenes rehearsal before the show, interviews with choir members, and close-up shots of soloists from both on stage and in the audience.
Date: October 4, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Sam "Shake"; Joseph, Clark; Small, David A.; King, Curtis & Steele, Barbara
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Roundtable Writer's Breakfast: "Sisters" full dialogue]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the roundtable writers breakfast entitled "Sisters: An Open Dialogue Between Light and Dark Skin African Americans" held on May 22nd, 2010. The footage shows a dialogue that focuses on a multigenerational overview of the issues of colorism in race, gender, and media for black women.
Date: May 22, 2010
Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis & Singley, Bernestine
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Roundtable Writer's Breakfast: "Sisters" tape 3 of 3]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the roundtable writers breakfast entitled "Sisters: An Open Dialogue Between Light and Dark Skin African Americans" held on May 22nd, 2010. The footage shows the collective group talking about solutions to the challenges women have faced due to colorism and the lack of traditional rights of passage for racial identity. The dialogue focuses on a multigenerational overview of the issues of colorism in race, gender, and med… more
Date: May 22, 2010
Duration: 40 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis & Singley, Bernestine
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Comedy night featuring Funnylady Sonya D. tape 2]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Funnylady Sonya D.'s live comedy performance at the Clarence Muse Café Theater in the summer of 2010. The footage shows the beginning of her stand-up routine focusing on the topics of recovery, being a childless single woman in her 40s, motivational speaking, and her education.
Date: Summer 2010
Duration: 24 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Funnylady, Sonya D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[24-Hour Film Feast in memory of Esther Rolle dialogue with actor Antonio Fargas]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 2010 annual 24-Hour Film Feast in memory of actress Esther Rolle. The footage was shot during actor Antonio Fargas' dialogue on Rolle's pivotal work in American film and television held on Saturday, February 13th, 2010. The tape fades to black and then picks up with unrelated content around the 1:15:00 minute mark.
Date: February 13, 2010
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis & Fargas, Antonio
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Comedy Night at the Muse Featuring Cocoa Brown]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Comedy Night at the Muse event in 2010. This video features a performance by comedian Cocoa Brown live on stage at Clarence Muse Café Theatre.
Date: 2010-06-04/2010-06-05
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 21 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Bonita and Billie: Based on the Life of Billie Holiday]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Bonita and Billie: Based on the Life of Billie Holiday event in 2010. This video is part of TBAAL's Dress Performance Theatre Series and starred Bonita Brisker, live on stage at Clarence Muse Café Theatre, celebrating the life and legacy of jazz icon Billie Holiday.
Date: 2010-04-16/2010-04-17
Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 37 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Jazz At the Muse: Xavier Jackson]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Jazz At the Muse event in 2010. This video features various performances by artist Xavier Jackson live on stage at Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The video cuts at 1:54:12 to a news segment.
Date: January 30, 2010
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 41 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[All the Queen's Men, starring Annie Adair]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their All the Queen's Men, starring Annie Adair event in 2010. This video features a theatrical performance of "All the Queen's Men," which was written and performed by Annie Adair, directed by Akin Babatunde live on stage at Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The video cuts at 1:20:14 to a news segment.
Date: 2010-11-05/2010-11-06
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Evans, Tracy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[18th Annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 18th Annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert event in 2010. This video features various holiday performances by youth and adults to celebrate Christmas and Kwanzaa live on the Naomi Bruton Main Stage. The video cuts at 1:17:29 to a news segment.
Date: December 11, 2010
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Evans, Tracy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Traditional story about step-parenthood

Description: This a traditional story about step-parenthood: the mother of two children (with the names Rengso and Onso) dies and the father marries again; the new stepmother is evil and mistreats her step-children, whereupon the father does not know what to do and both abandons his children in the jungle and kills his wife.
Date: March 31, 2010
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Monologue on a crying child

Description: This is a monologue on the (traditional) everyday situation of a mother having a baby to take care of while having to perform other chores such as getting firewood and cooking (not considered a true folk story by language consultants).
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat

Description: This is a traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat. He carves a hole into a tree and pretends to be a scary big black bird and tells his wife to feed the big black bird. After the wife has fed the big black bird (i.e., her husband) all of their chickens, the husband himself tells her to look inside the hole the next time around, which she does. Upon recognizing her husband, the wife is angry and tells him she will separat… more
Date: April 1, 2010
Duration: 6 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of cooking alkaline food: part 2

Description: This is a description of cooking alkaline food by burning jhum fields and using the ashes.
Date: April 2, 2010
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger

Description: This a traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger; by using a container with a mirror on top, he manages to convince the tiger that he (the orphan) has caught a large tiger in that container; the tiger is scared and the orphan ends up managing to steal gold from the tigers’ Rongker (= the name of a ceremony in Karbi traditional culture) due to his trick with the mirror container. Chikari Tisso was an active listener during the recording of this text. All of his backchanneling as w… more
Date: April 10, 2010
Duration: 12 minutes
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Performance of a traditional song

Description: Recording of musicians from Hundur singing a traditional song in Yasin Burushaski.
Date: July 26, 2010
Duration: 23 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Discussion about a song entitled "Hashki"

Description: Recording of Wazir Shafi discussing the song "Hashki" in the Yasin dialect of Burushaski.
Date: July 2010
Duration: 59 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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