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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Explores the March 2021 mass murder of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia, and looks at the rise of anti-Asian racism and efforts to oppose it, along with the need for better hate crime legislation and accountability from law enforcement.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A unique and essential 4.5-hour documentary series addressing the roots of gender inequality, the devastating impact of poverty and the ripple effects that follow, including: sex trafficking, teen-pregnancy, gender-based violence, child slavery and the effective solutions being forged to combat them. An edge-of-your-seat dramatic encounter which travels across the United States and to Haiti, Colombia and Kenya."--Container.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"One hundred years after the destruction of the Black-owned Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, residents and descendants examine the history of the 1921 tragedy and its aftermath. Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, the film explores vital issues of atonement, reconciliation and reparation." --
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel's book...
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