Independent Lens - Episode 4: Have You Heard From Johannesburg

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Baffled by his dad's reluctance to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and it's relevance to black cultural identity. He discovers that the love affair that his dad and his community...

Air date: 01/15/2013 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2305721338/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Baffled by his dad's reluctance to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and it's relevance to black cultural identity. He discovers that the love affair that his dad and his community... /episodes/get/6345 /episode/6345 Independent Lens: Soul Food Junkies /episode-player/6345

Solar Mamas

Welcome to India's Barefoot College, founded by Bunker Roy to provide rural women living in poverty with an education that empowers them to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. Rafea ? a 30-year-old Jordanian mother of four ? is traveling outside of her village for the first time to...

Air date: 11/06/2012 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2292078385/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Welcome to India's Barefoot College, founded by Bunker Roy to provide rural women living in poverty with an education that empowers them to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. Rafea ? a 30-year-old Jordanian mother of four ? is traveling outside of her village for the first time to... /episodes/get/6117 /episode/6117 Independent Lens: Solar Mamas /episode-player/6117

Love Free or Die

Gene Robinson is a man whose two primary passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and for his partner Mark. Robinson is the first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historic traditions of Christendom.

Air date: 10/30/2012 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2294044250/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Gene Robinson is a man whose two primary passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and for his partner Mark. Robinson is the first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historic traditions of Christendom. /episodes/get/6058 /episode/6058 Independent Lens: Love Free or Die /episode-player/6058

Whatever It Takes

What?s a child?s education worth? For one visionary rookie principal, it?s priceless. At the Bronx Center for Science...

Air date: 03/30/2010 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2240628509/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false What?s a child?s education worth? For one visionary rookie principal, it?s priceless. At the Bronx Center for Science... /episodes/get/1510 /episode/1510 Independent Lens: Whatever It Takes /episode-player/1510

Girl Wrestler

Texas teenager Tara Neal insists that girls and boys should be able to wrestle on the same mat. Follow Neal through the last year in which state guidelines allow her to wrestle boys. It's a year filled with family conflict, pressure to cut weight and fierce policy debates over Title IX, which...

Air date: 06/22/2012 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2245865450/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Texas teenager Tara Neal insists that girls and boys should be able to wrestle on the same mat. Follow Neal through the last year in which state guidelines allow her to wrestle boys. It's a year filled with family conflict, pressure to cut weight and fierce policy debates over Title IX, which... /episodes/get/1490 /episode/1490 Independent Lens: Girl Wrestler /episode-player/1490

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Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story - Available through March

March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story, that follows the sad and startling story of Cyntoia Brown, who is serving a life sentence for a murder she committed at age of...

Air date: 03/01/2011 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1822666163/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story, that follows the sad and startling story of Cyntoia Brown, who is serving a life sentence for a murder she committed at age of... /episodes/get/1497 http://www.wgby.org/episode/1497 Independent Lens: Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story - Available through March /episode-player/1497

Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

The unlikely story of America's original shock jock who battled the system and his own demons during a time of civil unrest in the nation's capital.

Air date: 02/03/2009 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1799416888/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false The unlikely story of America's original shock jock who battled the system and his own demons during a time of civil unrest in the nation's capital. /episodes/get/6727 http://www.wgby.org/episode/6727 Independent Lens: Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene /episode-player/6727

More Than a Month

Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman sets off on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. His thoughtful, humorous journey explores the complexity and contradictions of relegating an entire group's history to one month in a so-called 'post-racial' America.

Air date: 02/16/2012 Watch

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When I Rise

In 1957, Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student found herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to the heights of international opera.

Air date: 02/08/2011 Watch

http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1784212283/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false In 1957, Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student found herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to the heights of international opera. /episodes/get/6728 http://www.wgby.org/episode/6728 Independent Lens: When I Rise /episode-player/6728

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

In 1965, Patsy Mink became the first Asian American woman and woman of color in the United States Congress. Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority looks at Mink's remarkable political journey, while often lonely and tumultuous, as she fought for the most disenfranchised and forgotten in society.

Air date: 06/22/2012 Watch

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