The Raising of America: Episode 2 - Once Upon A Time
About the title: Imagine how things might be different if all America’s children had access to high-quality early care and education for the past four decades? They almost did.
Back in 1971, a bi-partisan Congress passed a bill providing high-qua...
Maquilapolis: city of factories
Explores the environmental devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana’s assembly factories and the female laborers who have organized themselves for social action. Maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries an...
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (Abridged Version)
Katrina Browne was shocked to discover that her distinguished Rhode Island forebears had been part of the largest slave-trading dynasty in American history. Once she started digging, Browne found the evidence everywhere—in ledgers, ships’ logs, ...
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
In telling the story of the organizing of the first black trade union—The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters—this program provides an account of African-American working life between the Civil War and World War II. Narrator Rosina Tucker, a 100...
Race: the power of an illusion
This program challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs that human beings come divided into a few distinct groups. It provides a look at why race is not biologically meaningful yet nonetheless very real. Contains three episodes. Episode one, T...