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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Coen was born with cystic fibrosis and later developed diabetes. With a lung capacity of just 20%, Coen spent a 1/3 of each day dealing with treatments of varying kinds. At age 15 he received a double lung transplant, a procedure that saved his life. Now a once painful hissing sound can be recognized as a laugh, a difficult walk now a full-on run, he can even wrestle with his little brother. Able to live like a normal teenager, Coen enjoys snorkeling,...
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The Ballerina had planned a “Pas de Trois” dance with the Strongman and the Clown but accidentally left out the Goblin. To get attention, the Goblin plays tricks on the other boys and the Ballerina ends up blaming the wrong person. But all is cleared up in the end and they include their friend Goblin in a “Pas de Quatre” dance instead.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From Chinese New Year to Christmas, “Let's Celebrate” looks at religious and cultural festivals from a child’s perspective. Each episode visits a different UK community to witness a family dressing up, decorate the house, prepare food, or exchange gifts. A musical or dramatic performance tells the story behind the festival. In Part Five, Charlotte introduces viewers to the festival celebrating St. David, the patron saint of Wales. She and her...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The killing of Trayvon Martin provoked candid reflection from President Obama on the subject of discrimination and American race relations. PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown Nathan McCall, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. and Michael Melton join Jeffrey Brown to continue the conversation on life and perception for black men in the U.S Original broadcast date: July 25, 2013
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This PBS town hall meeting, moderated by PBS NEWSHOUR co-anchor and managing editor Gwen Ifill, explores events following Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri. The program, recorded before an audience on the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will include national leaders and prominent thinkers in the areas of law enforcement, race and civil rights, as well as government officials, faith leaders and youth. Distributed by PBS Distribution....
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English
Description
This program with Bill Moyers examines why America has become an unfriendly culture for families and children, and explores ways to rebuild a web of support for families. Among those featured on the program are Rosalie Streett, Exec. Director of Parent Action (Baltimore, MD); Jill Bradley, Director of Child Care Services, Chicago Housing Authority; and Richard Louv, author of the book Childhood's Future. They discuss some of the practical steps needed...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A moving documentary on what its like to be transgender, to grow up in the wrong gender and eventually transition to a different sex. A documentary designed to record, share and celebrate the personal stories of transgender women and men and their stories of struggle, of courage and of triumph. Though they vary in age, ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds, each person has fought to cast off the gender assigned to them at birth and embrace their...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of decisions by grand juries in both Missouri and New York's Staten Island not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed African-Americans, this edition of Moyers & Company is an encore broadcast of Bill's conversation earlier this year with journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic, about his cover story "The Case for Reparations" about why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
David Muir moderates a town hall meeting with President Obama and people who were directly affected by recent tragedies involving law enforcement in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, and Baltimore. Cameron Sterling, Diamond Reynolds, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Clifton Kinney, Coffey Anderson, Toya Graham, and Police Chief Edward Flynn each take an opportunity to address the president with their concerns and questions about the future of our...
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This scripted narrative follows Rosa Parks' life from the time she was a private-school student, to her rise to infamy. Part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Parks fought against discrimination and segregation. But, it was her refusal to relinquish her seat on a bus and subsequent arrest, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which thrust her into the spotlight. This American-made film directed by Julie Dash features...
Series
What Would You Do? volume 0
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Encourage students to explore biases and stereotypes with this fourth series of ABC News "What Would You Do?" segments. Each scenario puts actors into exchanges with unwitting bystanders, generating a wide range of responses—from overt hostility towards other races and cultures to acts of genuine compassion. Topics explored include race and ethnicity, gender, disability, homelessness, age, and more.
Series
Eyes on the Prize volume America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
Pub. Date
[2014], c1994
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) come north to help Chicago's civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggle against segregated housing. Their efforts pit them against Chicago's powerful mayor, Richard Daley. When a series of marches through all-white neighborhoods draws violence, King and Daley negotiate with mixed results. In Detroit, a police raid in a black neighborhood sparks an urban uprising...
17) Racial Facial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Racial Facial is a short, 8 minute film about race in America. It provides a blur of fascinating images and video—historical and contemporary—depicting both the division and blending that has characterized the history and treatment of people of color in this country. Beginning with this country’s history of slavery and discrimination against African Americans, eradication and colonization of Native Americans, exclusion of Asian Americans and...
18) Culture Clash
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This film explores the challenges that children of Caribbean immigrant parents experience as they embrace their cultural heritage while assimilating into American society. Interspersing immigration facts with interviews with first and second generation Haitian, Belizean, Guyanese and Trinidadian Americans, it discusses contributions that Caribbean Americans make to U.S. society. Second generation children often come into conflict with their parents...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Rodney King, whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police launched a public dialogue about race relations in the United States, died at age 47. NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown, Patt Morrison of The Los Angeles Times, and Darnell Hunt of the University of California, Los Angeles, discuss his complicated life.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
This program examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African-American history: the Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction's thrilling but brief "moment in the sun." From the beginning, African Americans were agents of their liberation-by fleeing the plantations and taking up arms to serve in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom-rebuilding families...
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