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- A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.
- An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
- From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
- RIKERS provides powerful personal testimonies about the culture of violence and corruption that has plagued the notorious New York City jail for over three decades.
- An intimate documentary that chronicles the lives of those affected by incarceration in America's most incarcerated ZIP code.
- Aiming to bridge the divide between embattled Americans, Black Thoughts places viewers within the history ravaged mind of a broken-hearted Black man as he contemplates how confusion keeps citizens engaged in an endless cycle of conflict.
- In the wake of the shooting of five Dallas police officers, BBC Three investigates why tension is rising between America's police forces and ethnic minorities. Shot on the streets of New York, the film follows 'Cop Watchers' - men and women who track the NYPD in a cat-and-mouse game to try and film arrests and possible cases of brutality. NYPD officers also speak out, alleging systemic racism and a policy of targeting ethnic minority communities in order hit their arrest quotas.
- This PBS town hall meeting, moderated by PBS NewsHour co-anchor and managing editor Gwen Ifill, will explore the many issues brought into public discourse in the wake of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri. The program was recorded before an audience on the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
- Elementary Genocide seeks to educate parents, teachers and families, so that African Americans can reclaim their young men and ensure the future of their communities.
- Middle Men exposes modern day policing and its treatment of minorities, spoken from people on both sides of the law. It spotlights police officers, the "middlemen," sworn to protect, but are governed by statistics and police quota.
- Each year, over 600,000 people return from jail or prison to our communities, where they face countless barriers to employment, housing, and reintegration. The film explores the challenges of reentry and the role communities can play in reducing these barriers. Viewers will hear from four storytellers-George, Shaquan, Sing and Armando-who share portions of their life stories, illuminating the common threads that run through the experiences of many of the over two million people incarcerated in the U.S.
- The Last African American man in the world. Jimmy is on trial for past, present and future crimes. Will Jimmy have a transformation of mind and heart, or will he continue the downward spiral of black male destruction?"
- On a Friday night after a long week at work, Calvin Davis joined his family in Southwest Washington, DC for an informal gathering. Still wearing scrubs from his job at Children's National Medical Center, Calvin caught up with an old friend while his two boys rode bikes around the block. When police followed his fifteen year-old home, pulling on gloves as they approached the teenager, Calvin intervened to ask "Why? What did he do?" How these questions escalated into a night in jail for a father with no prior record will make you "Think of Calvin" next time you question racial profiling or how America has become the world's most prolific jailer.
- When a man of color is convicted of a crime he did not commit, his life and death hang in the hands of a woman too afraid to stand for truth. Project Overview: A CRY FOR HELP is an intimate look at the destructive power of white privilege and the impact of white silence on black incarceration told in a dramatic short film format. Lensed in black and white, reminiscent of classic films like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, it's an American tragedy right out of the headlines. A cautionary tale that shines a sad light on the tragic destruction of an American family by the fear and indifference of an otherwise caring witness to a crime that never really happened.
- In 2008, Sarah Higinbotham, while working on her Ph.D at Georgia State University, wanted to teach a literature class in a Georgia prison. Much to her surprise, she discovered that no college education programs existed in Georgia prisons at the time. So she started one. Incarcerated men signed up for her no-credit classes to study Shakespeare, Milton, Baldwin, and more on a college level. One class led to another. In 2010 she was joined by Atlanta musician and GSU writing instructor Bill Taft. The word got out. Today over 100 professors from area colleges and 700 incarcerated students have joined together in four prisons and a downtown Atlanta class to participate in a liberal arts education. Students and faculty have described the program as one of the most powerful learning experiences they've ever been involved in.
- 2016–TV EpisodeTough punishment policies and mass incarceration have led to social and economic problems for inmates, their families and the greater community, while not impacting crime rates as hoped. As the U.S. leads the world in the number of people behind bars, 4 experts discuss solutions at a historic venue: the Eastern State Penitentiary, now a museum and landmark that features the cell (complete with oriental rug and secretary desk) where Al Capone was held. Eastern was considered the first "modern" prison with a radial design that was architecturally copied throughout the world.
- Reveals how China runs its re-education camps, where more than a million people have been imprisoned. Uncovering the surveillance and abuse inside hundreds of new detention centres.
- 2015–8.1 (17)TV Episode