The African American and African Studies Program (AAASP) and the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center (The Ross) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, welcomes you to its second biennial Blacks in Film Festival. AAASP is an academic program in The Institute for Ethnic Studies that offers minors for African American Studies and African Studies. Ten films documenting black experiences in the United States and Africa have been chosen. We begin with civil rights and black power movements in the 1960s and end in the 21st century with an exploration of hip hop culture: What we Want, What we Believe … The Black Panthers, Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Mo and Me, Hip Hop Colony, Paths of the Displaced, WattStax, A Time for Burning, Amandla!, Fela Kuti, and When We Were Kings comprise the festival’s film line-up.

The African American and African Studies Program (AAASP) joined The Institute for Ethnic Studies in 1994. Since its founding that year, the program has carried out its mission: to increase the awareness of people of African descent, to showcase the talents of its faculty, to promote cultural diversity in its programming and sponsorships, and to engage students in multi-disciplinary and comparative approaches to learning the African experience both on the continent and in its Diaspora. For more information please visit our websites: www.unl.edu/unlies and www.unl.edu/unlies/aaas/aahome.html.