Contains the files of  David Carnochan, editor, Denise Greene, director,  producer, and writer, Tanayi Seabrook, [research associate?], and Sarah Wolozin, associate producer,  for episode 5 "Not a Rhyme Time" and episode 6  "the Freedom You Will Take" of  "I'll Make Me a World." Includes largely articles, excerpts, images, correspondence, and other research materials related to the topics and figures covered in episodes 5-6.

Box 01 - Contains David Carnochan's files. Includes research on Gwendolyn Brooks, Black Arts Movement, Romare Bearden, Alice Walker, Bill T. Jones, Black women writers, Spike Lee, and hip hop. Also has original treatment for hour three "The Mavericks" (working title), first assembly scripts and screening notes for hours 1-4,  "old scripts," Hour five full scripts and narration), Hour six full scripts and narration, Music Rena's notes, Misc. lists: Interviews, stock footage needs, stock footage categories, artists initials, Hour five and six: final cut notes, time code printout, final fix notes. Also has notes from Bill T. Jones and Pamm R. Jackson. Also has internal Blackside emails regarding suggestions about editing.

Box 02 - Contains David Carnochan's files.  Includes photocopies of images (photos, book covers, posters, artwork) related to Gwendolyn Brooks, Black Arts Movement, and other topics covered in episodes 5-6.  Also has transcripts for Benny Andrews, Amini Baraka, Amiri Baraka, Lerone Bennett, Camille Billops, Gwendolyn Brooks, Oscar Brown, Cheryl Bruce, Robert Brustein, Mary Campbell, Cara Moore, Elizabeth Catlett, Sean Curran, Ossie Davis,Ruby Dee, Julie Dash, Herbert Gentry, Gerald Early, Barry Gaither, Brenda Gottschild, Nat Hentoff, Virginia Johnson, Bill T. Jones, Kellie Jones, Woodie King, Maxine Kingston, Hilton Kramer, Spike Lee, Spike Lee, Haki Madhubuti, Kerry James Marshall, Ron Milner, John Pierson, Howardena Pindell, Ismael Reed, Charlene Regester, Faith Ringgold, Sonia Sanchez, Gloria Steinem, Clyde Taylor, Maria Tucker, Melvin Van Peebles, Alice Walker, Kara Walker, John Edgar Wideman, Saul Williams, August Wilson, George Wolfe, Gene Young.

Box 03 - Contains Denise Greene's research files. Includes research materials related to Black woman writers, Lerone Bennett, Ed Bullins, Stanley Crouch, Jeff Donaldson, Barry Gaither, Woody King, Douglas Turner Ward, Melvin Van Peebles, Larry Neal, Lorenzo Thomas, Cornel West, Glenn Ligon, Lorna Simpson, Black studeis, spoken word, Carolyn Rodgers, Black Arts Movement, Spike Lee, Spike Lee's "Malcolm X," Alvin Ailey, and Gwendolyn Brooks letter to H&R.

Box 04 - Contains Denise Greene's research files.  Includes articles on black artists and black art spanning from the 1930s to 1990s, exhibition catalogues, and photo CDs with logs. Also has general correspondence, footage requests, and materials requests.  

Box 05 - Contains Denise Greene's research files. Includes correspondence, Night three shoots, scripts, series one-pager, visuals - non-interview shooting, Hour 5&6 scripts and treatments, Hour 6 articles and research materials related to Kasi Lemmons, New Black Aestheitc (NBA), Saul Williams, Savion Glover, Spike Lee ("She's Gotta Have It"), Bill T. Jones, Great Black Music, King of Rock (Run DMC), Boogie Down productions (BDP), KRS-one, Gangsta Rap, Female Rappers, Motown, Amiri Baraka. 

Box 06 - Contains Denise Greene's research files. Includes Mary Schmidt Campbell's thesis on Romare Bearden, "A Graphic Odyssey " - Romare Bearden, Bearden story - CATS, 1970s VA protest, The Decade Show exhibition catalogue, Benny Andrews, Harlem on My Mind (HOMM), New Dance Voice (dance in the 80s and 90s), Dudley Randall, Gwendolyn Brooks poems, Sonia Sanchez, June Jordan, Public Enemy, Rap stats, Greg Tate, Hudlins (Reggie and Warrington), Charles Burnett, Marlon Riggs, Julie Dash. 

Box 07 - Contains Denise Greene's research files. Includes research material related to Gwendolyn Brooks (published interviews, essays/notes, letters between Brooks and Harpers), Black Arts Repertory Theater (BART), Oscar browne, Jr., Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Gene Young, Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) letters, Shange/For Colored Girls, Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Gloria Steinem, Black Women Writers timeline and notes, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Steven Spielberg, rap, EPMD rap artists, 90s art, Kellie Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, "The Art Gallery: Black, White, and Gray."

Box 08 - Contains Tanayi Seabrook  files related to Blackside's "school" (pre-production educational sessions for producers in which experts on relevant subject matters, including scholars and actual participants in the events related to the series, were brought in to speak during a 3-day workshop). Includes correspondence, travel information, and other materials related to the the panelists, general attendees, "no shows," and general invitees (complete list of names available upon request). Also has research materials related to music, theater, Anna Devere Smith, Roy DeCarava, film, June Cross, Manthia Diawara, Salem Mekuria, Robert Patton-Spruill, James Baldwin, comedians, Dance (Alvin Ailey, Dance Theater of Harlem, ARthur Mitchell, V. Johnson, Garth Fagan, Gregory Hines), literature, John Edgar Wideman, Jazz ( AACM, Betty Carter, Regina carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ron Carter, O. Coleman, Steve Coleman, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dorothy Donegan, Rachelle Ferrell, Kevin Eubanks).

Box 09 - Contains Tanayi Seabrook  files. Includes research materials related to jazz (Sonny Fortune, Rachelle Ferrell, Roy Hargrove, Lena horne, Javon Jackdon, Rodney Kendrick, Abbey Lincoln, Melba Liston, Christian McBride, Leon Parker, Joshua Redman, Diane Reeves, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Randy Weston, Cassandra Wilson), Tommy Davidson, Chris Thomas, Talley Beatty, Black Arts Movement, National Black Theater, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Gwendolyn Brooks, Etheridge Knight, Jayne Cortez, Stanley Crouch, Henry Dumas, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Clarence Major, Ismael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Barbara Ann Teer and files related to "school" (pre-production educational sessions for producers in which experts on the relevant subject matters, including scholars and actual participants in the events related to the series, were brought in to speak during a 3-day workshop) such as biographies, travel, contact database, library searches. Also has other production related files such as memos, daily assignments, pre-interviews, night 3 stories. 

Box 10 - Contains Tanayi Seabrook research files. Includes research materials related to Barbara Chase-Riboud, Betya Saar, John Biggers, Adrian Piper, Motown, The Supremes, Steve Wonder, Stax/Atlantic - soul, Atlantic, Soul Music, Funk, James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Black women  writers bibliography, black women writers, Toni Cade Bambara, Rita Dove, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, A.J. Verdelle, Alice Walker, Hip Hop history, chronologies, anthologies - Black poetry, Nikki Giovanni, June Jordan, Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, Amiri Baraka's "America's War on Poverty" interview transcript, Alice Walker, Abbey Lincoln, Christian McBride, bibliography, interview questions. Also has Village Jazz Festival brochure, Jazz nightlife guide, and promotional material on Pamela Williams and Nicholas Paytonand ." Also has artist participation letters and thank yous."

Box 11 - Contains Sarah Wolozin's files. Includes fact check books (scripts paired with verifying references) for episodes 5 and 6, Harper's Publishing file, Broadside Presss file, and photo sources for episodes 5 and 6. 

Box 12 - Contains Sarah Wolozin's research files. Includes research materials related to Romare Beardon, Jean Michel-Basquiat, Camille Billops, Viviane Browne, Dana Chandler, Ellen Gallagher, David Hammons, Barkley hendricks, Richard Hunt, Kellie Jones, Howardena Pindell, Martin Puryear, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Gary Simmons, MarciaTucker, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Women Collectives, Ismeal Reed, Julie Dash, Spike Lee, "Do the Right Thing," "Jungle Fever," "School Daze," Spike Lee's "Malcolm X," John Singleton, Melvin Van Peebles, hip hop, graffiti, De La Soul, Rakim, Salt n' Pepa, Spoken Word - Tracie Morris, Paul Beatty, Pamela Sneed, Jessica Care Moore, Carl Hancock Rux, Sekou Sundiata, Underground Voices, and thesis on the Black Arts Movement author unknown.   

Box 13 -  Contains Sarah Wolozin's research file. Includes research materials, gathered from various archives, libraries, and museums, related to the Black Arts Movement.

Box 14 -  Contains Sarah Wolozin's visual art and artist research files. Includes research materials related to Charles Burnett, Spiral, "Harlem on My Mind"/metropolitan Museum, Romare Bearden, visual arts protest 1970s, Whitney protests, Colin Chase, "Dislocations", Kerry James Marshall, artist biographies, art galleries, Lyle Ashton Harris, Adrian Piper, 93 Bien, Bob Blackburn, "Dislocations" - MOMA, Vivian Browne, Elizabeth Catlett, Cinque Gallery, Ernie Crichlow, Mel Edwards, Reginald Gammon, David Hammons, Camille Billops, Lorna Simpson, Judith Wilson, George Wolfe, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, and other material related to visual art and artists.

Inventory lists of each box available.