Movie: The conclusion of "Body and Soul" (1925) a silent "race film" produced, written, directed, and distributed by the filmmaking pioneer Oscar Micheaux and starring a 27-year-old Paul Robeson in his motion picture debut. In the film Robeson portrays a minister, malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.

Movie: "Body and Soul" (1925) is a silent "race film" produced, written, directed, and distributed by the filmmaking pioneer Oscar Micheaux and starring a 27-year-old Paul Robeson in his motion picture debut. In the film Robeson portrays a minister, malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.

In this episode, Reverend Jeremiah Wright delivers a sermon titled "How God Uses Music". This sermon was devilered in 2006 at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.

On May 17, 1957 in Washington, D.C. hoping to prod the federal government to fulfill the promise of the three-year-old Brown v. Board of Education decision, national civil rights leaders called for a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Speaking last, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave this speech titled "Give Us the Ballot".

Movie: In the 1942 film "Lucky Ghost" F.E. Miller and Mantan Moreland star as two down-on-their luck friends who suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice. They wind up in a sanitarium that's being used as an exclusive, though illegal, gambling club and get mixed up with beautiful women, jealous gangsters and ghosts.

In this episode author, economist, political analyst, and social commentator Dr. Boyce Watkins delivers a lecture at Kansas City Kansas Community College on the subject "The Importance of a College Education". This lecture was recorded on February 21, 2008.

In this episode Master of ceremonies Willie Bryant hosts an eventful evening of music and comedy captured live at the Apollo Theater and featuring such popular artists as Nat 'King' Cole, Duke Ellington, the Clovers, Dinah Washington, Martha Davis, and Mantan Moreland. Filmed in 1955, this copy is possibly incomplete coming in at just under 40 minutes.

This episode includes two recordings by Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five, "I Want You To Be My Baby" and "The Nearness of You". These were most likely recorded in the mid to late 1940s when Jordan was at the peak of his popularity.

Washboard Sam (Robert Brown) and his Washboard Band perform "Just Got To Hold You" and "Yes I Got Your Woman" in this recording made in Chicago on August 5, 1940. From the original 78rpm disk.

This episode is the cartoon "Tin Pan Alley Cats" (1943), directed by Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies series. A follow-up to Clampett's successful "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs", released earlier in 1943, Tin Pan Alley Cats features a caricature of jazz musician Fats Waller.