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Amy and Don discuss the loss of a dear friend and colleague, Dr. Dolores Finger Wright, by reflecting on their brief experiences with her and her impact in how she lived. This podcast includes excerpts from Dr. Wright's appearance on this podcast in 2019 (season 1, episode 8) and clips from her appearance in the 2017 documentary "Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities" which highlight her experiences organizing the 1960 Greensboro Sit-In. We dearly miss you, Dr. Wright. Resources mentioned in this episode: • Clip of "Tell Them We Are Rising" (Facebook video) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=v7YzmG&v=1079030432306365  • "Suburbanization and the Color Line along Grandview Drive" (article) https://invisibleindianapolis.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/suburbanization-and-the-color-line-along-grandview-drive  • "Feb. 1, 1960: The Greensboro Sit-in Begins" (article) https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/greensboro-sit-in/  • Nice White Parents (podcast) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nice-white-parents/id1524080195  • "One Year After Pulse" (article) https://time.com/one-year-after-pulse/  • "The Charleston Church Massacre (2015)" (article) https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/charleston-church-massacre-2015/    My Racist Friend is a podcast about the messy parts of relationships that help us grow together. Long-time friends Don Griffin, Jr. and Amy Makice, LCSW, enter into a transparent and ongoing conversation about complicated and difficult topics such as racism, gender, and social justice. Through the authentic lens of their strong mutual relationship, their goal is to model difficult conversations that can promote understanding and connection in a world that needs both. In this relationship, Amy is the inherently racist friend, who is working to change and better understand how racism impacts her relationship with people she loves. Donald Griffin Jr. is a Bloomington native, former Deputy Mayor for Bloomington, and a real estate broker, proudly serving his community for the past three decades. Since opening Griffin Realty in 2003, Don's dedication to excellence has helped to guide his company to be among the top producers in Indiana with nearly a half billion in individual lifetime sales. Amy Makice, founder of Bloomington Center for Connection, is a licensed psychotherapist based in Bloomington, Indiana. Her professional journey is rooted in her passion for Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT), and her commitment to RCT extends into community building initiatives to promote the power of connection. Amy helps to bring the Relational Summits to Bloomington, featuring distinguished guests like Maureen Walker, Amy Banks, and Isaac Knapper.  Buy "Your Racist Friend" by They Might Be Giants on iTunes

Stacey Holman is Series Producer & Director of the new four-part PBS documentary series, Gospel. She's a Harlem-based filmmaker who has directed and/or produced a number of award-winning projects including an episode of the 2018 PBS series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She was a producer on the critically acclaimed documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, and she was an Associate Producer on the Emmy award-winning film Freedom Riders.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stanley Nelson Jr., documentary filmmaker of many films including "Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities" and the new Oscar-nominated documentary "Attica," joins to discuss the history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and how they built generations of Black leadership in America. Then, we kick off our yearly Oscar Nominated Docs series with his latest film, "Attica."

In this special bonus episode, the last before we begin our momentous Season 10 … can you believe it? … Bart and Chris revisit some favorite moments from past shows, including: all the previous clip-montage intros; excerpts from our interviews with filmmakers Chelsea Hernandez, Stanley Nelson and Morgan Neville; an excerpt from Bart's interview with Patricia Aufderheide about Fair Use; an opening chatter sequence about Sexy Beast; a Doc Talk about James Bond; and a Doc Talk where guest host Sedika Mojadidi discussed her plans for her then new job as a college professor. You'll hear our former third cohost, the incomparable Summre Garber, in many of the early moments. Enjoy! Thanks to all who submitted suggestions of their own favorite moments from past shows. We'll be back some time in October with more (i.e., Season 10)! Films Mentioned:   A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller, 2019) Becoming Bond (Josh Greenbaum, 2017) Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal (Robert Gordon/Morgan Neville, 2015) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson, 2015) The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (Stanley Nelson, 1999) Building the American Dream (Chelsea Hernandez, 2019) Casino Royale (Val Guest/Ken Hughes/John Huston/Joseph McGrath/Robert Parrish/Richard Talmadge, 1967) Facing the Dragon (Sedika Mojadidi, 2018) Freedom Riders (Stanley Nelson, 2009) Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde/Albert Maysles/David Maysles/Muffie Meyer, 1975) Grey Gardens (Michael Sucsy, 2009) Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Stanley Nelson, 2006) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1997) Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (Stanley Nelson, 2019)  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt, 1969) The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 2018) A Place of Our Own (Stanley Nelson, 2004) Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog, 2006) Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000) Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (Stanley Nelson, 2017) They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Morgan Neville, 2018) 20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville, 2013) Two Dollars and a Dream (Stanley Nelson, 1989) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville, 2018) Timestamps: 00:41 – Bart and Chris intro of show’s topic 02:03 – Clip-montage intro from Seasons 1 and 2 03:49 – Opening chatter about Sexy Beast (Episode 203) 06:30 – Doc Talk about James Bond (Episode 203) 11:27 – Clip-montage intro from Seasons 3 and 4 12:56 – Excerpt from Stanley Nelson interview (5/8/19 Bonus Episode) 21:09 – Excerpt from Chelsea Hernandez interview (Episode 602) 25:25 – Clip-montage intro from Seasons 5 and 6 27:01 – Excerpt from Patricia Aufderheide interview (8/28/19 Bonus Episode) 32:38 – Doc Talk with Sedika Mojadidi about teaching (Episode 701) 36:56 –  Clip-montage intro from Seasons 7 and 8 38:12 – Excerpt from Morgan Neville interview (1/14/20 Bonus Episode) 41:07 – Conclusion 43:01 – End credits Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com disinfo@fogoftruth.com Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moored Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Sonya Childress served as the Director of Partnerships and Engagement for Firelight Media for 16 years, where she led impact campaigns for veteran director Stanley Nelson’s films, including Freedom Summer, Freedom Riders, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities and The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. Sonya previously held staff and consulting positions at Active Voice, California Newsreel, Kartemquin Films, ITVS, and Working Films. She founded Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship, a yearlong mentorship and training program for impact producers of color. She currently serves as a Senior Fellow with the Perspective Fund, a philanthropic resource for documentary film and impact campaigns, where she conducts field-building research.

Angela McCrae is a filmmaker and creative strategist with over 15 years of experience in television/film, journalism, and philanthropy. Currently, her career sits at the intersection of content development and events marketing. She currently serves as the Events and Marketing Director for the DTLA Film Festival. Angela leverages her twenty years of media experience to engage diverse audiences with impactful storytelling and innovative experiences. A graduate of Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, Angela values mentorship and has taught television & video production at the Baltimore School for the Arts and Connecticut School of Broadcasting. During her 6+ years at NBCUniversal, she's won the Gem Award for excellence and leadership, as an advocate for diversity and inclusion launching the company's first Young Professionals Network in Los Angeles. She was selected to participate in MSNBC’s Know Your Value conference and the company’s D&I Impact leadership accelerator for her work developing programming for the company’s Women’s Network. Angela’s pivot from broadcast news to entertainment began with director Marcus Raboy, working on projects with Carlos Santana, Shakira, McDonald’s, Miller Lite and others. She later began producing branded content and activations for automotive campaigns, which includes the 2013 LA Auto Show debut event for Lincoln Motors MKC hosted by Nia Long and digital video campaigns for BMW and Lexus. She’s been a long supporter and volunteer with Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY, representing the grassroots arm of the organization at events in Los Angeles and New York to promote independent film releases. As a creative strategist, she has passionately developed communications and impact campaigns for award-winning documentarian Stanley Nelson’s Firelight Media. She’s led campaigns for the EMMY-nominated documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, critically acclaimed BOSS: The Black Experience in Business, and the GRAMMY-nominated feature film Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. Ms. McCrae served as co-producer and co-writer for the web-series The BFF Chronicles, starring Erika Alexander and Kim Coles of Living Single. Her directorial debut short film #WhereIsBeauty, starring soul-singer Goapele, has been nominated for two awards opened the 2017 Cannes Pan African International Film Festival in France, and has screened in Nairobi, Kenya, at the Milwaukee Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, BronzeLens Film Festival and others cities around the world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucy499/message

This bonus episode features an interview with the great Stanley Nelson, a prolific director telling complex and socially relevant stories in an expert and entertaining way. The episode drops the day before Nelson’s latest film, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, plays at the Maryland Film Festival, in co-host Chris Reed’s hometown of Baltimore.   Stanley Nelson Films Discussed: Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool / 2019 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution / 2015 The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords / 1999 Boss: The Black Experience in Business / 2019 Freedom Riders / 2009 A Place of Our Own / 2004 Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities / 2017 Two Dollars and a Dream / 1989 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple / 2006   Other Films Mentioned: Listen to me Marlon / 2015 (Director: Stevan Riley) Always in Season / 2019 (Director: Jacqueline Olive) Words From a Bear / 2019 (Director: Jeffrey Palmer) The Infiltrators / 2019 (Director: Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera)   Timestamps: 00:46 - Interview with Stanley Nelson   Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com disinfo@fogoftruth.com   Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moore Episode edited by Christopher Llewellyn Reed

It is officially March, and I feel that we have done all we can for the Class of 2022.  Before we head into advice for the Class of 2023, we are going to do a few episodes on things we didn’t know about certain colleges--or about higher education generally.  As we have always said, we learn something every time we do an episode, even though this is our business and we have been doing it a very long time. Today’s episode focuses on a favorite topic of ours here at USACollegeChat--that is, our nation’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).  We have spotlighted HBCUs in several of our episodes over the years (Episodes 32, 90, 100, and 117), and we mentioned them on many of our episodes that took you on our virtual nationwide tour of colleges quite some time ago.  And while we will give you some background and some statistics in this episode, for those of you who are not familiar with HBCUs, the real purpose of the episode today is to praise the new documentary on HBCUs that recently aired on PBS’s Independent Lens series.  The documentary, entitled Tell Them We Are Rising, is the work of filmmakers Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams.  And it is fantastic! As our regular listeners know, there are just over 100 HBCUs in the U.S.  About half are public, and half are private.  HBCUs are large and small (many are very small), faith-based and not, two-year and four-year colleges and universities; some also have graduate and professional schools, including the well-known Howard University School of Law, which is the focus of one segment of the new documentary.  HBCUs were originally founded to serve black students who had been excluded from other higher education institutions because of their race.  The three earliest HBCUs were founded in Pennsylvania and Ohio before the Civil War, but many were founded in the South shortly after the Civil War.  Those Southern HBCUs share a proud tradition of becoming the first colleges to provide higher education to the family members of freed slaves.  Over the years, HBCUs have produced extraordinary leaders in every field of endeavor and thousands and thousands of well-educated American citizens.  A list of their famous graduates would be too long to read to you. 1.  Why Watch?  So, why should your kids (and you) watch this documentary?  (If you can’t still find it on the air on PBS or streaming on the PBS website, buy it or tell your high school to buy it and show it to all of the students.)  There are a lot of reasons to watch.  First, it is a great piece of documentary filmmaking.  It includes take-your-breath-away and heartbreaking archival photographs and film of black American life during segregation and during the end of segregation.  It includes archival photographs and film of HBCU students on campus going back a hundred years, including the horrifying 1972 shooting of two students in an otherwise peaceful protest on the campus of Southern University (in Baton Rouge, Louisiana); more about that later.  It includes insightful interviews with former HBCU students now in their 70s and 80s, with HBCU presidents, with historians, and more.  It includes evocative and relevant music.  Second, the film gives an impressively organized overview of 150 years of African-American history, focusing on higher education in the form of HBCUs, but including everything from the beginning of elementary education for black children to the debate about the education philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois to the role of the remarkable Thurgood Marshall (who graduated from both Lincoln University and Howard University School of Law, two HBCUs) in ending school segregation to the lunch counter sit-in protests staged by HBCU college students during the struggle for civil rights.  If your kid does not know this history (and many don’t), here is a powerful way to help him or her learn it. Third, if your kid does not know what an HBCU is, it is time your kid learned.  That is especially true if your family is African American--or Hispanic, because Hispanic enrollment at HBCUs has been increasing (as we have said in earlier episodes).  And while white students can and do also enroll at HBCUs, white students should also have an understanding of these historic institutions and their continuing important role in our nation’s social and cultural fabric.  We have heard too many anecdotes (including in this documentary) of black high school students who want to go to an HBCU only to have their friends ask them why in the world they would want to do that.  Early in the film, HBCUs are described as an “unapologetic black space.”  Late in the film, they are described as the place where “you’ll find something you won’t find anywhere else.”  That’s why.  No one could have said it better. 2.  Some Background If you all thought that you were going to get away without hearing one more time about my favorite HBCU, Fisk University, you were wrong.  Oddly enough, in a PBS interview by Craig Phillips with the filmmakers, Mr. Williams said that they had written a segment, which they did not end up using, about the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.  The Jubilee Singers, organized in 1871, saved the University from closing in its early days by raising money on their concert tours, and they continue to tour today.  I love their story.  And, of course, there is Charles Spurgeon Johnson, the intellectual architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who served as Fisk’s first black president, and the Harlem Renaissance writers and artists, like Arna Bontemps, James Weldon Johnson, and Aaron Douglas, whom he brought to Fisk to work with him.  Well, Mr. Williams, I would love to have seen your segment on the Jubilee Singers, though I was interested in the segment you do have on Fisk.  And you all should be, too. As we just said, today HBCUs enroll students who are not black--just as historically white colleges and universities (referred to as predominantly white institutions, or PWIs) now enroll students who are not white.  According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2015, students who were not black made up 22 percent of the enrollment at HBCUs.  That was up from 15 percent back in 1976.  And while the number of students enrolled at HBCUs rose by 32 percent in those years—which was good for them—total college enrollment rose by 81 percent in those same years.  Some observers say that it has become harder for HBCUs to recruit African-American students now that they have been welcome at both selective and nonselective colleges across the U.S.  That is undoubedly true to some degree. Nonetheless, there is still a strong sense of community among the alumni/alumnae of HBCUs and a strong sense of tradition on HBCU campuses.  You can see that in the new documentary, for sure.  And there have been very recent and impressive spikes in HBCU applications, as we said back in Episode 100.  For some African-American students, the sense of community at HBCUs could be a good fit for what they are looking for in a college, and a shared culture could go a long way toward helping them feel comfortable on a college campus, especially if it is far from home.  Some observers say that Hispanic students often feel more comfortable in the family-like environment of many HBCUs, which could account, in part, for the increase in Hispanic enrollment. And, parents, in case you are interested, lower-than-average tuition rates at both public and private HBCUs (sometimes literally half of the going rate at PWIs) are one more attractive feature.  Just go check out a few.  I think you will be surprised. So, if you and your kid are tempted to investigate further after watching Tell Them We Are Rising, here are some HBCUs to consider (some you will probably know, and some you might not know): Fisk University (Nashville, Tennessee) Howard University (Washington, D.C.) Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia) Morehouse College (Atlanta, Georgia) Tuskegee University (Tuskegee, Alabama) Hampton University (Hampton, Virginia) Lincoln University (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania) Florida A&M University (Tallahassee, Florida) Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, Louisiana) North Carolina A&T State University (Greensboro, North Carolina) Claflin University (Orangeburg, South Carolina) Delaware State University (Dover, Delaware) Morgan State University (Baltimore, Maryland) And there are plenty more. 3.  What We Didn’t Know So, let me return for a moment to the shooting at Southern University, which I am embarrassed to say I knew nothing about.  I would like to think that is because I myself was just a college student in those days, but that is really no excuse.  Here is an excellent synopsis of what happened, as told last month by reporter Mike Scott, of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, on the occasion of the documentary’s airing on PBS: Forty-five years after two Southern University students were shot dead by police who had been sent in [to] quash weeks of demonstrations on the school’s Baton Rouge campus--which included occupation of the university president’s office--the 1972 incident is once more getting attention. The documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities will make its broadcast premiere Monday night (Feb. 19) on PBS--and online a day later….  In addition to starting with a drum cadence by the Southern University drum corps, the 85-minute film features a 10-minute segment on the Southern [University] shootings, which are brought to life through interviews, photos and video--and which vividly, and poignantly, illustrate the on-campus tumult at HBCUs in the late 1960s and early ’70s. “They were exercising their constitutional rights. And they get killed for it. They die,” former student Michael Cato says in the film of the slain students. “Nobody sent their child to school to die. It shouldn’t have happened.” The Southern shootings took place Nov. 16, 1972, after weeks of demonstrations by students protesting inadequate services. When the students marched on University President Leon Netterville’s office, Gov. Edwin Edwards sent 300 police officers in to break up the demonstrations. It was during the subsequent confrontation that a still-unidentified officer fired a shotgun at students in violation of orders. When the smoke cleared, two 20-year-old students--Leonard Brown and Denver Smith--were dead. No one was ever charged in their deaths. Edwards, who is interviewed in Tell Them We Are Rising, blamed the students, saying their actions were a “trigger” for the police response. In 2017, the Southern University System board’s academic affairs committee voted to award Brown and Smith posthumous degrees.  (quoted from the article) The documentary shows the actual shots being fired and the bodies of the two students being taken away.  It includes a touching interview with the sister of one of those students.  It tells a story that all of us should know.  4.  Final Thoughts In an interview for PBS with the filmmakers, writer Craig Phillips asked why they had wanted to make a film about HBCUs.  Here are their answers: Stanley Nelson: In fundamental ways, historically Black colleges and universities form the core of the African American community. They are the engine that has driven the ascent from enslavement to the highest positions in business, government, education, science, technology and entertainment. The sacrifices made to create these institutions are significant, and are what compelled me to capture this essential chapter of American History.  Marco Williams: HBCUs are the engines of American democracy. These institutions, in the education of African Americans activate what it means to be American. I was invested in telling this story because I am committed to highlighting the fact that African American history is American history. People often ask about is there a need for HBCUs? I always answer: why don’t we ask is there a need for PWIs (predominantly white institutions)? This answer, coupled with the viewing of the film, provides the most salient understanding of the significance and the value of these essential institutions to the creation of America.  (quoted from the article) Mr. Nelson goes on to say this: My goal is to highlight the indisputable importance of these institutions within Black communities and invite Americans to consider how different our country might look without the existence of these institutions. I also hope this film prompts viewers to not only celebrate the legacy of HBCUs, but also reinvest in them.  (quoted from the article) I think that the film will absolutely do that.  I think it is hard to watch it and not want to go to an HBCU.  Remember, parents, that HBCUs come in all shapes and sizes.  Some are well known, and others are not.  But their history as a group and as individual institutions is remarkable, as Tell Them We Are Rising teaches all of us. Find our books on Amazon! 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It was 56 years ago when fifteen Hampton Institute students were arrested for refusing to take seats in the segregated balcony at the Phoebus Lee Theater now known as the American Theater. Find out what drove their activism as we hear from two of the students, Lucy Thornton and Hulbert James, along with Linda Holmes, Oral Historian, Civil Rights Project, Hampton History Museum. Plus, we'll preview the upcoming PBS documentary, "Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities", and find out how Hampton University played a pivotal role in the production. And we continue our Black History Month series, "Excelling In Spite of Jim Crow".

Film maker Stanley Nelson and Dr. Bobby Donaldson of the University of South Carolina talk with Walter Edgar about the story of historically black colleges and universities in the U. S., and about Mr. Nelson's film Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities which airs on SCETV Monday, February 19, at 9:00 pm, as part of the PBS series Independent Lens.

Multiple Award Winning Filmmaker, Stanley Nelson discusses latest film, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges & Universities

The Cool Soror Podcast welcomes filmmaker, visionary, producer, content creator Stacey L. Holman. This Cool Soror of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc is doing some outstanding work telling the stories of African American people through film. In her words, this is her story: From Dillard University in the Big Easy to Tisch School of the Arts in the Big Apple, I have honed my passion to write, produce and direct films that speak to matters of the heart, human insecurities, and bring light to treasured sub-cultures. Some of my works that address these themes include: Mirar Mirror, Girl Talk, Lumiette, Surrender (part of the anthology 6 Things I Never Told You) and Dressed Like Kings. My world in film has moved between narrative and documentary. On several projects, I have been able to blend the two genres structurally and visually. I have also brought my experience to several incredible historical films as Producer, Co- Producer, Line Producer, and Associate Producer. My portfolio includes the Peabody Award-winning Freedom Summer and the Emmy Award-winning Freedom Riders produced and directed by Stanley Nelson, the Emmy Award-winning Jesse Owens, andMary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, which aired on PBS affiliates. Through these projects, I have worked to breathe life into history for new and diverse audiences, to demonstrate its relevance for our present and to preserve it for future generations. My film territory even expanded into the world of philanthropy as a consultant with the JustFilms unit at the Ford Foundation. Recently I was one of the producers on Stanley Nelson's most recent project Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities which airs on PBS’ Independent Lens in February 2018. Currently, I serve as one of four producers/directors on Skip Gates documentary Reconstruction and the Birth of Jim Crow. Stacey is a part of a masterpiece and will continue to create important work for years to come. We should all be glad she’s behind the lens. Social Media: www.blackbutterflyproductions.net#hbcurising

On this episode, we have Angela McCrae. She's a graduate of Morgan State University. She currently serves as Digital Communications Manager for Firelight Media. During this episode we talk about the highly anticipated documentary: Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson and we'll also discuss the HBCU Rising Campaign. Film Premieres on Independent Lens on PBS, Monday, February 19, 2018, at 9 PM ET View Film Trailer  VISIT THE WEBSITE: www.HBCURising.com CONTRIBUTE to the #HBCURising Digital Yearbook!  ATTEND A Screening! FOLLOW ON SOCIAL: @HBCURising and use the hashtag #HBCURising. 

Welcome to the House of Crouse. Today it's ripped-from-the-headlines day around the old HoC. Two documentary filmmakers drop by to chat up two very different films. Dilip Mehta's "Mostly Sunny" is a look at Sunny Leone, the Canadian born performer who made the jump from porn star and “Penthouse Pet of the Year” to Queen of Bollywood. Then Emmy Award winner Stanley Nelson drops by to discuss "Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities," his wide ranging look at how Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have helped shape the societal and cultural history of America for the last 170 years. It's fascinating stuff so c'mon in and sit a spell.