The Conversation Remix: For Our Girls
FOR OUR GIRLS, a love letter from mothers to daughters, explores the stigmas Black girls face as they grow up within and outside their community. Through interviews, mothers share concerns with how they are shaping and impacting their daughters' independence. The film acknowledges the sacred, and at times, tense relationship that parent and child share as they face challenges and accept flaws.
Episodes
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YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Maria Hinojosa
3m 47s
Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning Maria Hinojosa is a journalist, who began as a radio host at Barnard College. Rising through the media ranks for her work reporting on immigration and Latino issues at CBS, CNN, and NPR, she's been named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics. The founder of The Futuro Media Group was also the first Latina to anchor a Frontline report (Lost in Detention).
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YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Angelo Sosa
3m 28s
Award-winning chef Angelo Sosa is known for bold interpretations of Asian and American cuisine using complex flavors. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Sosa cooked in several acclaimed kitchens, even becoming an Executive Sous Chef. Most recently, he was the runner up on the seventh season of Top Chef, and is the owner of several restaurants in New York and Las Vegas.
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YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Roland Martin
3m 57s
Climbing through the print media ranks, Roland Martin became the executive editor of the Chicago Defender in the '90s. Known as an authority on race, politics, religion, Martin has received awards for excellence in journalism and is an NAACP Image Award recipient. The host of news program Washington Watch also pens a nationally syndicated column and is a highly sought political and social analyst.
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YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Lemon Andersen
3m 30s
Andrew "Lemon" Andersen is a poet raised in Brooklyn. He watched his stepfather, father and mother die from heroin abuse and AIDS complications, leaving him and his brother to grow up alone. With talent, encouragement from friends and mentors in the Hip Hop community, Andersen rose to critical acclaim. He has appeared in Def Poetry Jam, the PBS documentary Lemon and one-man show County of Kings.
Extras + Features
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Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Social Media
2m 35s
The Civil Rights Movement was a revolution spread by word of mouth. The new movement is a revolution brought together by activists on social media by #BlackLivesMatter. Activists and journalists speak to the power of social media on activism and the means to which it is an alternative to the mainstream media. From the WORLD Channel special, "Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now."
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Bridge to Freedom
30s
A decade of lessons is applied in the peaceful-turned-climactic and bloody march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. "Blood Sunday" leads to two additional marches, one symbolic and one full-scale, and a major victory: the Voting Rights Act is passed in 1965. But civil rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead. From the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize."
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Miss.: Is This America?
30s
Mississippi's grassroots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters; three activists - two white students and one black local - are murdered. The inclusive Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention. From the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize."
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - No Easy Walk
30s
The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations with success and failure. Under the leadership of the very visible Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the triumphant March on Washington, D.C. in 1963 shows a mounting national support for civil rights. And President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act. From the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize."
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize-Ain't Scared of Your Jails
30s
Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement; the lunch counter sit-in movement starts in Greensboro, North Carolina and spreads to 69 cities in the South. "Freedom Riders" try to desegregate interstate travel, which the Supreme has banned twice, but are brutally attacked as they travel through Alabama & Mississippi. From the award-winning series "Eyes on the Prize."
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Fighting Back
30s
States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide over integration and segregation; Arkansas' Central High School in 1957 (Little Rock Nine), and the University of Mississippi in 1962 (James Meredith). Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts...and integration is carried out. From the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize."
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Trailer
1m 10s
"Eyes on the Prize" is the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Narrated by political leader and civil rights activist Julian Bond (1940-2015).
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Trailer
1m
A re-examination of the series, Eyes on the Prize, from the filmmakers’ perspective, and viewpoint of civil rights activists then and now. This intergenerational dialogue takes the civil rights movement and places it under a microscope – revisiting, reframing and re-asking key questions while contextualizing those issues in a contemporary way. Narrated by Aloe Blacc.
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Preview
30s
"Eyes on the Prize" is the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Narrated by political leader and civil rights activist Julian Bond (1940-2015).
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WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Preview
30s
A re-examination of the series, Eyes on the Prize, from the filmmakers’ perspective, and viewpoint of civil rights activists then and now. This intergenerational dialogue takes the civil rights movement and places it under a microscope – revisiting, reframing and re-asking key questions while contextualizing those issues in a contemporary way. Narrated by Aloe Blacc.
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Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Aloe Blacc
1m 32s
A behind-the-scenes look at "Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now" with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc, the narrator of the WORLD Channel special.
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Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - John Lewis
4m 28s
Student activist Jonathan Butler and Congressman John Lewis discuss the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize," and the Civil Rights Movement then and now, including Congressman Lewis's own experiences. He also offers advice to the activists of the movement today. From the WORLD Channel special, "Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now."
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