Pornland: How the Porn Industry has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Pornography has moved from the margins of society into the very mainstream of American culture. From Internet pornography to MTV, pop culture industries bombard us with sexualized images of idealized women and men that jump off the screen and into o...
Transcript: has to ask is: How in a society that has historically been founded on racism - where black men got lynched for just looking at a white woman or even for
Race and sex : what we think (but can't say)
Behind the conscious mind’s efforts to judge people on their merits, the subconscious categorizes by details such as gender, race, and age - just as it has done since the dawn of humankind. Can ethnic prejudice be overcome? What is the “stereoty...
Transcript: GOOD DANCERS, BECAUSE IN AMERICA THEY DO, IS NOT TO THREATEN THERE'S GOING TO BE LYNCHING AND BLACK PEOPLE CAN'T BE LAWYERS ANYMORE. * EVERYONE'S A
Safe as houses: real estate values and mortgage trading
Contrary to widespread perception, real estate is no different than any other financial asset - its value can plunge. This program examines the volatility of property investment and the ramifications of buying and selling bulk mortgages and mortgage...
Transcript: Wall Street names like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch have vanished. Unlike savings and loans, this crisis extends right around the
Cyberbullying: cruel intentions
The teenage years have always been tough - but digital technology has raised the dangers of the social battlefield to a whole new level. This ABC News program reports on how cell phones, digital cameras, and personal websites encourage and amplify t...
Transcript: . SHE WAS ONLY 16. AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE VITRIOL WE FOUND POSTED RECENTLY ON WEB JOURNALS, OBSCENITIES, VERBAL LYNCHINGS, AND THERE ARE EVEN WEBSITES
For love of liberty : the story of America's black patriots: Episode 4 : the long green line
Gain an unprecedented look at the experiences and accomplishments of African Americans in the military, and learn why such a group of heroic men and women would fight for the freedom of others that they themselves weren't able to enjoy. Hosted by Ha...
Transcript: ;uppity." Quote: The negro troops got a taste of racial equality in foreign lands. As they came home, it had to be beaten and lynched and terrorized out of them
México: La Rebelión de la Llorona
This is the story of Mexican women who have fought, and continue to fight, for equality and women’s rights. They are women looking for children kidnapped during political pogroms, journalists, writers, and political activists. Machismo and the res...
Transcript: sing this song in the School of Medicine, where she was about to be lynched, along with other feminists. [SPEAKING SPANISH] If men got pregnant, I bet
Black on White
Gullah—the African-influenced dialect of Georgia’s Sea Islands—has undergone few changes since the first slave ships landed 300 years ago, and provides a clear window into the shaping of African-American English. This classic PBS program trace...
Transcript: AMERICAN BLACKS. BORN IN THE SOUTH HE WITNESSED LYNCHINGS AND MOB VIOLENCE. UP NORTH IN THE TIME HONORED ORAL TRADITION OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY, ACCOMPANYING
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson—A Film Directed by Ken Burns—Part 2
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Transcript: , and my scrambled eggs all beat up like poor old Jim. Jeffries, I was the one they wanted to come and lynch. As soon as I stepped into the prize ring
Great Speeches: Today's Women, Volume 2: Margaret Thatcher, Mary Fisher, Tipper Gore, Heather Lamm, and Elizabeth Dole
About the title: This video features Margaret Thatcher's call for Atlantic union in marking the 50th anniversary of Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech; Mary Fisher's discussion of AIDS; Tipper Gore's speech on women in America; Heather Lamm's ...
Transcript: him to sustain over three years in the hospital. Now, I didn't know Bob back then, but Pat Lynch did. Pat, stand a moment if you would. Come right up
Living with Dying
Death, which sooner or later comes to all, is treated as a strangely taboo subject in America. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers describes the search for new ways of thinking—and talking—about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctan...
Transcript: interested in. That's what I do. For most of his life, the poet Thomas Lynch has watched how his neighbors in Milford, Michigan meet death. He now runs the