African Americans still suffer from systemic discrimination, and the country’s “war on drugs” is chiefly to blame. Police disproportionately search young black men, and are much more likely to imprison them for nonviolent drug offenses. On release, they often can’t find work because of stringent background checks. This process deprives...
Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But the story also illustrates how African-American families and leaders resisted this insidious practice, and how Black people built community — within and despite — the red lines that these...
Arctic’s most magical moments. With the help of a one-of-a-kind local tracker, we find a female polar bear fresh out of her winter den with her tiny new cub. We see ultimate cuteness as the cub explores the world outside for the first time. Wildlife with Bertie Gregory Environment Activity Downloads
In the centre of Antarctica, a colony of male Emperor penguins are left quite literally 'holding the baby' as, nearing starvation, they eagerly await the return of the females fresh from their fishing trip! The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth | BBC Earth Environment Activity Downloads
This mother polar bear causes a mini-avalanche to save her cubs. NATURE, “Snow Bears“ on PBS. NATURE brings the beauty and wonder of the natural world into your home, becoming in the process the benchmark for natural history programs. Environment Activity Downloads
Antarctic and its wild creatures, all in dramatic action sequences.... from penguins and seals to whales and birds. Not only great action, a compelling highly topical storyline: The many real threats to this pristine paradise and its wildlife. Environment Activity Downloads
Antarctica is considered one of the biggest mysteries on Earth. Ice, glaciers, snow, polar bears, mountains, secret bases, dangerous wilderness-the list goes on and on when we’re talking about the most southern continent in the world. Environment Activity Downloads
Currently, the continent only hosts a temporary transient population of scientists and support staff. Antarctica is the only continent on Earth without indigenous human inhabitants. Environment Adventure Downloads
Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate. How much will sea levels rise? The frozen continent of Antarctica contains the vast majority of all freshwater on Earth. Now that ice is melting at an accelerating rate, in part because of climate change. What does this transformation mean for coastal communities across the globe? William...
The records left by the Freedmen's Bureau through its work between 1865 and 1872 constitute the richest and most extensive documentary source available for investigating the African American experience in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Historians have used these materials to explore government and military policies, local...
White teachers—mostly women—dominated Virginia freedmen's schools during Reconstruction, but African Americans eventually won the opportunity to teach in black schools.
