Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: When Sonoo Thadaney-Israni bought a house in this neighborhood in California’s Silicon Valley, she found something disturbing in the fine print of her home deed. SONOO THADANEY-ISRANI (LADERA RESIDENT): The language that I read basically said the only people allowed to live in this […]
Andrew McGill
Extremism in America (full film)
This 28-minute special looks at the roots and rise of hate groups in America. It is released in collaboration with WORLD Channel and The WNET Group’s reporting initiative Exploring Hate.
Transcript: Extremism in America (full series)
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (10-21-21):PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN: Domestic terrorism from white supremacists is the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland. MARK POTOK (SENIOR FELLOW, CENTRE FOR ANALYSIS OF THE RADICAL RIGHT): Why is the radical right growing? Why are these ideas resurging in such a dramatic way? […]
Transcript: How a 1944 Supreme Court Ruling on Internment Camps Led to a Reckoning
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. DALE MINAMI: Change goes slowly. We had to rewrite history in a sense and promulgate the true history of what happened to Japanese Americans. NARRATION: In 1941, Yae Wada owned and operated a hair salon in Oakland, California. YAE WADA: This is our shop. That’s […]
Transcript: Why the Supreme Court Endorsed, Then Limited Affirmative Action
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. MUSKAAN ARSHAD: We’re here at the center of Bentonville Square. There used to be a Confederate statue housed here. I was involved in the activism and the protesting surrounding removal of the monument. It was a really fraught experience. But now it’s been gone for […]
Transcript: Unprepared: Lessons From Two Massive Oil Spills
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: March 24, 1989 ARCHIVAL (CBS, 3-24-89):DAN RATHER: An oil tanker ran aground today off the nation’s northernmost ice-free port, Valdez, Alaska. NARRATION: One of the worst oil spills in U.S. history brought Americans images of blackened beaches, dying wildlife, outrage and betrayal. […]
Transcript: A New Housing Program to Fight Poverty has an Unexpected History
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: 1966 NARRATION: 1966. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders took their fight for equality north, to one of the most segregated cities in America: Chicago. ARCHIVAL (CHICAGO FILM ARCHIVES, 1966):PROTESTORS: Take a bath the next time before you come […]
Transcript: Holocaust Survivors Fleeing Ukraine Find New Home in Germany
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: In the early days of the Russian invasion, with bombs and uncertainty reigning, millions of Ukrainians scrambled for safety. They fled their homes hoping to escape to neighboring countries. And along the way, many stopped in Rabbi Moshe Azman’s Kyiv synagogue. 92-year-old Rahyl Entina, […]
Transcript: Midterm Elections: How 1994 Midterms Set Off an Era of Divisive Politics
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, 9-27-94):TOM BROKAW: Republicans now are beginning to talk openly about taking control of the House and the Senate. LINDA KILLIAN (AUTHOR: “THE FRESHMEN: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION?”): Sometimes midterms can be not that interesting. Voters aren’t paying attention in the […]
Transcript: Facing Eviction: Teresa (Excerpt)
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: As the pandemic stretched on, tenants were falling deeper and deeper into debt. TERESA TRABUCCO (RIVERSIDE COUNTY TENANT): When, the schools shut down, this is when it all started for me. My son was no longer to attend in-person schooling. And that’s where I […]
