Click here for the full video page and educator materials. Transcript in Spanish NARRATION: The 1990s were a time of building anger over immigration. And it started in a place that might surprise you – California. ARCHIVAL (CBS, 8-19-93):NEWS REPORT: Illegal immigration is a serious problem in California. NARRATION: Undocumented immigrants coming across the border […]
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How Prop. 187 Transformed the Immigration Debate and California Politics
Today’s immigration policies echo an anti-immigration movement from the 1990s in California.
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Transcript: What’s in a Number? Some Research Shows That a Lower B.M.I. Isn’t Always Better.
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, 12-13-01):TOM BROKAW: News in depth tonight. Americans eating themselves to death. ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 1-8-10):KATIE COURIC: As we begin this new decade, the country is facing a dangerous weight problem. NARRATION: For decades, Americans have heard the same message. ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, […]
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Transcript: As Massacre Survivors Seek Justice, El Salvador Grapples With 1,000 Ghosts
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. AMADEO MARTINEZ SANCHEZ (MASSACRE SURVIVOR, TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH): Around 7 or 8 a.m., the helicopters started flying around. Around 9 a.m. we heard them start to kill the people of El Mozote. Suddenly we saw some soldiers coming down the hill. First they took two […]
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Transcript: Gerrymandering Tilts Political Power. Here’s How Redistricting Affects Democracy.
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: It’s one of the darkest arts of electoral politics. And it’s perfectly legal. CARTER WRENN: This is like original sin. Both sides are infected with it. NARRATION: Gerrymandering. It has a surprising history and contentious future, as Republicans and Democrats battle over data from […]
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Transcript: Black Swimmers Overcome Racism and Fear, Reclaiming a Tradition
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. PAULANA LAMONIER (FOUNDER, BLACK PEOPLE WILL SWIM): When I’m in the water I feel at ease. I don’t have to worry about anything. I don’t have to worry about how my body feels or things like that because I’m free. Black People Will Swim, we […]
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Transcript: 9/11 Heroes: Surviving the Biggest Attack on U.S. Soil
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. Transcript in Spanish ARCHIVAL (9-11-01):NEWS ANCHOR: This just in, you are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, THE TODAY SHOW, 9-11-01):NEWS ANCHOR: A plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center here in New York City. ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, […]
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Transcript: How the Military Response to 9/11 Led to Two Decades of War in Afghanistan
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: Two decades after invading Afghanistan, the United States is withdrawing, leaving chaos in its wake and the country much as it found it twenty years ago. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 8-16-21):NEWS REPORT: The Taliban don’t just control Kabul, they control the whole country. NARRATION: How did […]
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Transcript: Special Education: The 50-Year Fight for the Right to Learn
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: Many schools will hold classes this summer for students who have fallen behind academically after a year of remote learning. ARCHIVAL (PBS NEWSHOUR, 2-23-16):CLASSROOM OF CHILDREN: One, two three, four. ZAKIYAH ANSARI: If we know general education children are suffering, then there’s no doubt […]
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Transcript: Bringing Midwifery Back to Black Mothers
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. BRUCE MCINTYRE: Amber was so excited about starting this new chapter and becoming a mother. She would come to me every week. The baby’s the size of an orange. The baby’s the size of a troll doll. Things like–every week. BEARING THE BURDEN: BLACK MOTHERS […]
