Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges & Universities Official Full-Length Trailer

Stanley Nelson, the preeminent storyteller of the African-American experience and Firelight Films, the award-winning production company committed to making films about pivotal events, movements, and people in American history, unveil a new full-length trailer for the upcoming documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities. The trailer provides a fast-paced, rousing overview of the complex history of how HBCUs, havens for Black intellectuals, artists and trailblazers, offered a path of promise toward the American dream, educated the architects of freedom movements throughout the decades and cultivated leaders in every field.

[myquesttoteach]

As a graduate from South Carolina State University and Professor from 2004 to 2017 at the historic Edward Waters Collage the oldest HBCU in Florida the significance of HBCU institutions can never be denied nor, not taken seriously. HBCU still are important to educating not just people of color, but people of all nationalities because it teaches them that people of color will always rise!!!

[MdMedina]

Proud graduate of Alabama A&M University...Go Bulldogs..

[smartanajonesu]

Proud grad of Spelman College and proud member of the AUC consortium

[gwendolynholloway]

I had the HONOR of sending my daughter to an HBCU, Virginia State (hale Trojans) she has 2 degrees and a sisterhood, that she would not have gained anywhere else! Now my nephew is attending his 2nd year at Howard University! Leading by example. SUCH PRIDE 🧐😊

[colorbydesignlive]

I think that a majority of whites have little to no awareness that there are historically Black colleges and universities, what that means or the significance that has offered to the greater community. I look forward to seeing the documentary.