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Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: It was one of the boldest foreign policy decisions in modern history.  ARCHIVAL (2-27-72):PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON: This was the week that changed the world. NARRATION: Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China shocked the world and left a consequential legacy. WINSTON LORD (U.S. AMBASSADOR TO […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: ELKHART, INDIANAHOME OF CLEO WRIGHT’S DAUGHTER79 YEARS AFTER THE LYNCHING NANNETTA FORREST (CLEO WRIGHT’S DAUGHTER): My mother, she was pregnant with me at the time that it happened. They tell me the people were so scared they were packing their luggage and […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: JANUARY 25, 1942THE DAY OF CLEO WRIGHT’S LYNCHING HARRY HOWARD: The day the lynching happened, you all must’ve been totally surprised and shocked. CARLEEN HARRINGTON: Oh, man. Yes. Cleo, he was a real handsome-looking guy.  Remember him just well. He had a […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. MARTIN ROSSEN: The morning was joyful, sun was shining. Our girls were just thrilled to be putting on their red, white and blue, and we got great spots on the parade route. TEXT ON SCREEN:Highland Park, IllinoisJuly 4, 2022 JASON ROTTER: My family, Martin’s family, […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. AMEED ADEMOLU: We never know what we’re going to encounter in the field. We always suspect the unexpected. What we know for sure when a person has totally met the criteria for removal, the only thing for us to do in that moment will be […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: The national school lunch program serves nearly 5 billion lunches a year to 29 million students, with proven benefits to their health and academic performance. But over the years. . . ARCHIVAL (1981):REP. BILL GOODLING: It was disgraceful. It was disgusting. NARRATION:. . . […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: January 25, 1972 ARCHIVAL (WNYC-TV, 1-25-72)SHIRLEY CHISHOLM: I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States of America. REP. BARBARA LEE (D-CA): Shirley Chisholm did that in 1972, and she was a […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (11-6-24):DONALD TRUMP: Frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. There’s never been anything like this in this country and maybe beyond. MATTHEW DALLEK (POLITICAL HISTORIAN, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY): Today, many Americans consider the Republican Party to be synonymous with […]

Click here for the full video page. TEXT ON SCREEN:  PORTLAND, OREGON NATALIE (IN INTERVIEW): I didn’t know that much about the Constitution. I was very anti constitution. I had a pretty negative view of it because I’m like, why are we listening to all these old men that lived in the 1700s? But as […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. JOURNEYLOVE (IN INTERVIEW): This year there was many times where I thought about dropping the class. And I remember we had to like, sell like, bake sale stuff to like, get money. And, like, this Black girl was there and she was like, thank you […]