Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (FOX NEWS, 10-20-17): TUCKER CARLSON: The debate over the N.F.L. anthem protests has been persistently framed in racial terms. Most protesting players have been African American. They say they’re kneeling to protest the treatment of Black Americans by the police. ARCHIVAL (FOX NEWS, 9-24-17): […]
Andrew McGill
Transcript: Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: A Retro Report Film VOICE: Oh, my god. What’s going to happen? NANCY GIBBS (TIME): We live in an attention economy… TEXT ON SCREEN: Directed and Produced by Susie Banikarim NANCY GIBBS:…and, attention equals power. ARCHIVAL:REPORTER: If I may ask one other […]
Transcript: In the Long Fight to Protect Native American Families, a Law Stands Guard
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (KPIX, 6-15-23):NEWS REPORT: Today the Supreme Court voted to uphold a decades old law that governs tribal adoptions. ARCHIVAL (NBC15, 6-16-23):NEWS REPORT: It’s known as the Indian Child Welfare Act or I.C.W.A. NARRATION: So, what is the Indian Child Welfare Act? And why is […]
Transcript: Generations Stolen
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. DIANA JEFFERSON: Want to go skip rocks, Rosa? ROSA JEFFERSON: Okay, I would grab this one. I will throw it. ARCHIVAL (PBS, NEWSHOUR, 6-15-23):NEWS REPORT: The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a decades-old law on adoptions of Native American children. The 1978 law gives preference […]
Transcript: Why Are Schools Still Segregated? The Broken Promise of Brown v. Board of Education
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. Transcript in Spanish TEXT ON SCREEN: April 20, 1971 ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 10-12-70):NEWS ANCHOR: Many communities are struggling with the highly complex and highly emotional problem of busing. NARRATION: In 1971, Charlotte, North Carolina opened the door for busing across the country, forcing the nation […]
Transcript: How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. Transcript in Spanish MARGARITA “MITA” CUARÓN (FORMER STUDENT, JAMES A. GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL): If we had to take to the streets and claim our rights to equality in our schools, then so be it. TEXT ON SCREEN: EAST LOS ANGELES, 1968 MITA CUARÓN: I went […]
Transcript: Transgender Rights, Won Over Decades, Face New Restrictions
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (CBS, THIS MORNING, 12-2-20):NEWS ANCHOR: In what’s being viewed as a watershed moment for the trans community, the Oscar-nominated star of the movie “Juno” has come out as transgender. NARRATION: Transgender and non binary visibility has moved from the margins into the mainstream. ARCHIVAL […]
Transcript: Forced into Federal Boarding Schools as Children, Native Americans Confront the Past
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 5-28-21):NEWS REPORT: The remains of more than 200 children have been located. ARCHIVAL (CNN, 7-10-21):NEWS REPORT: Hundreds of human remains in unmarked graves at two residential schools in Canada. ARCHIVAL (CNN, 7-8-21):NEWS REPORT: Just as it happened in Canada, many Indigenous children […]
Transcript: The Crime That Fueled an Asian American Civil Rights Movement
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN:Flushing, Queens, New York SAM CHENG: Growing up in New York City, you kind of just always watch your back and I think during Covid, certainly it heightened my sense of awareness around my surroundings even more. NARRATION: In February 2021, Sam Cheng’s […]
How Saba Kept Singing
The new Retro Report documentary “How Saba Kept Singing” traces the journey of Holocaust survivor David Wisnia as he returns to Auschwitz and unlocks a secret from his past.
