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Untold Legacy
Leslie K. Brown
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2005
Color
12 minutes
US
English
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Untold Legacy

In February 2005, the NY City Council considered a bill that would require companies doing business with NY to investigate and reveal any past complicity and profit from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Though resisted by the NYC mayor, Chicago already passed such a law, resulting in JP Morgan Chase apologizing and providing some restitution for its slave-based past. This short is a quick introduction to the history of New York's slave-based development, and why redress is due.
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Awards

• Best Documentary Short, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, 2006
• Nominated for Best Independent Mini Documentary, Black Reel Awards, 2007
Screenings
• WNET, Channel Thirteen, New York, 2007
• Free Speech Television, 2007
• Best Shorts Series, BET J, 2007
• VIBE Urban World Film Festival, 2006
• New York City Shorts, 2007
• Human Rights Film Festival, 2007
• SilverDocs, 2007
• Documentary Fortnight Expanded at MoMA, New York, 2007
• Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 2006
• National Museum of Women in the Arts' Festival of Film & Media, Washingtong DC, 2007
• Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, 2006
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