Collections in Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

The Black Filmmaker Foundation (BFF) is a nonprofit membership organization co-founded and led by filmmaker Warrington Hudlin. The Black Filmmaker Foundation collection consists of 715 moving image recordings and one sound recording created from 1971 to 2004, with the bulk of the collection created in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection includes films, demo reels, music videos, and other media produced by Black Filmmaker Foundation members and collaborators, as well as recordings of the organization's public programs. less

Victoria "Vicki" Garvin (December 18, 1915 - June 11, 2007) was a trade union leader, Black radical intellectual, Pan-Africanist, and activist. The collection contains forty-four audio recordings dating from circa 1980 to 1998, and one video dated 2007. less

Producer, educator, and archivist Martha Diaz formed the Hip-Hop Education Center (HHEC) to formalize and promote hip-hop based education. Its primary holdings are from the Hip-Hop Odyssey (H2O) International Film Festival, which Diaz founded in 2002 to showcase hip-hop films, music videos, public service announcements, and related media from around the world for artists, educators, and the broader community around its home at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2007, H2O shifted from producing festivals to collaborating with Third World Newsreel on H2ONewsreel, a full-service media development and distribution organization for hip-hop media makers. The Hip-Hop Education Center collection brings all of these related works under one umbrella. The Hip-Hop Education Center collection consists of 446 moving image works and forty-one sound recordings created from 1979 to 2014. These works have been included in Hip-Hop Odyssey International Film Festivals, or created or presented with the assistance of H2ONewsreel. less