PBS American Portrait

Lex, founder of BLM Utah, is more determined than ever to convince state legislators to endorse her Police Reform Platform, or else police brutality will continue to go unpunished in Utah.

Jennifer S. knows what it's like to live without a safe place to call home. She's dedicated herself to helping people without homes and is advocating for the city of Philadelphia to fill their vacant public housing units.

Grits, an activist who had struggled with their identity, shares their story of how they decided to get involved with racial justice efforts.

Christine H.'s play, starring an all Asian and Black cast, is designed to raise awareness and create dialogue, but the one person she wants it to influence the most is her mother.

Lex, the founder of BLM Utah, has been targeted with threats agains herself and her family due to her activism work.

In the fourth episode of PBS American Portrait, go inside the lives of people working to create an antiracist American future. They film themselves doing the hard work, confronting the obstacles and achieving the small victories that could add up to real change in the movement for racial justice.

Anisa presents to the school board to make the case for the removal of school resource officers, but not all community members share her opinion.

People across the country confront the history of racial violence in the United States and commemorate the need for truth and reconciliation.

Ellen has dedicated herself to fighting to eliminate corporal punishment from schools and change how schools discipline students.

Americans share how self care helped them get through the uncertainties of 2020.

A crowdsourced poem inspired by Margaret Walker Alexander’s classic “For My People,” curated by 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and read alongside fellow members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Twin sisters Rahma and Raafa explain how they came to terms with their intersectional identities as Black Muslim women, and how their experiences led them to activism.