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New! Inside Chicago's Gang War
Item# 52812
© 2012
26 Min.
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At least 419 people were killed in 2012 across a dozen neighborhoods in Chicago-more than all the U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan during the same time period. The cause? Gangs and their turf wars. I...
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New! Inside the New KKK
Item# 52811
© 2012
13 Min.
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Granted rare access to the Mississippi White Nights of the KKK-the klavern notorious for its involvement in what has come to be known as the Mississippi Burning case-this ABC News program reports on t...
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New to Our Collection! Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?
Item# 53086
© 2011
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-714-1
After a 7.0 earthquake brutalized Haiti in January of 2010, Americans donated a stunning $1.4 billion to major charities. Ten months later, filmmaker Michele Mitchell went to the Caribbean nation to o...
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Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Item# 49778
© 2009
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-600-0
Who has the authority to define a culture—especially if people from that culture are denied the opportunity to engage in the scholarly discourse of defining themselves? Is there a politics of knowledg...
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Dreams of Obama
Item# 40891
© 2009
60 Min.
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Produced on the eve of Barack Obama’s historic presidential inauguration, this Frontline episode tells the story of how a little-known state senator rose from obscurity to the White House in just over...
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Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Item# 49793
© 2008
86 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-607-9
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...
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Reborn: New Orleans Schools
Item# 40696
© 2008
85 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-277-1
Despite its horrific destruction, Hurricane Katrina gave New Orleans educators the opportunity to reinvent a school system that wasn’t working. This program chronicles the first official year of publi...
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Let Freedom Ring: Moments from the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965
Item# 40565
© 2008
100 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-994-6
Despite the colossal and continuing legacy of America’s civil rights era, the movement is often best understood through the historical moments in which it took place. This NBC News program presents or...
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The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
Item# 40368
© 2008
33 Min.
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“I wondered for many years,” reveals Rev. Billy Kyles, “why I was there at that crucial moment.” Rev. Kyles stood only a few feet away from Dr. Martin Luther King when the eminent civil rights leader...
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Prejudice: More Than Black and White
Item# 39150
© 2008
35 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-9898-3
Muslims, blacks, gays, people with disabilities, and immigrants of every ethnicity and color: these and many other groups have stood in the spotlight glare of intolerance, easy targets for every sort...
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