Waiting on the world to change: poverty in Camden, New Jersey
Welcome to Camden, New Jersey - one of the most economically depressed and crime-ridden cities in America. Even so, children here have hopes and dreams that compete daily with terrible hardships. This ABC News program documents the lives of three yo...
Why and how to wage peace and justice
A discussion of the ideals of non-violence in the face of current world dynamics. The first speaker addresses how peace and justice can be waged in the face of 21st century security challenges. These security challenges include military and strate...
Beyond black and white: affirmative action in America - a Fred Friendly seminar
All sides of the affirmative action issue have targeted the same goal: ending racism of all types. But do opportunities for some have to come at the expense of others? In this Fred Friendly Seminar moderated by Harvard Law School's Charles Ogletree,...
RBG
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, qu...
Women and Islam
Leila Ahmed, professor of women's studies at Amherst, argues the case for revision of the widely-held views in the Islamic world about the role of women, using examples from history and the role played by women in the contemporary world. She explain...
Scared ink
Examines the hardship of being an artist, with the ups and downs of the work and sales.
The Codes of Gender
Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance. Uncovering...
Sexual stereotypes in the media
Categorizing others is a part of human nature, and even as infants we divide the world into two groups - male and female - to help organize our reality. But when these stereotypes are used to make assumptions about a person's character and value, th...
Tillie Olsen: "I stand here ironing"
This moving dramatization of Tillie Olsen's frequently anthologized "I Stand Here Ironing" is an unvarnished exploration of an impoverished single mother's ambivalence toward her worth as a parent and her 19-year-old daughter's future. Rich in subte...
A history of social classes
Marx divided the industrial world into two antagonistic classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. In today's society, this simple dichotomy fails to capture the many segments of a global marketplace. From the communal hunter/gatherers and agrarian...