The Raising of America: Episode 4 - Wounded Places
About the title: Combat vets and survivors of wars and natural disasters aren’t the only people susceptible to PTSD. Too many of our children, especially children of color living in neighborhoods of concentrated povert..
The Raising of America: Episode 5 - DNA Is Not Destiny
About the title: Fetal and early childhood experiences and environments – chemical, family, socio-economic – literally become part of us. But how? The genes we inherit don’t change. But new scientific discoveries r..
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Program Four: Terror and Triumph (1940 - 1954)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents a brutal and oppressive era r..
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Program One: Promises Betrayed (1865 - 1896)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents a brutal and oppressive era r..
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Program Three: Don't Shout Too Soon (1917 - 1940)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents a brutal and oppressive era r..
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Program Two: Fighting Back (1896 - 1917)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents a brutal and oppressive era r..
The business of America
Studies the effects on steelworkers and their families of the United States Steel Corporation’s shutdown of its plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Examines the decline of the American steel industry as a result of its r..
The road to Brown
Tribute to the role of visionary Black lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston in the cases which led to the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. Houston, as chief counsel to the NAACP, launched a num..
Thomas Sankara: The upright man
A biography of Thomas Sankara, a charismatic army captain who became the first president of Burkina Faso after a popularly-supported coup. During his four years in office before being assassinated, he instituted a wide r..
Tongues Untied
Marlon Riggs' essay film Tongues Untied gives voice to communities of black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront racism, homophobia, and marginalization. It broke new artistic..