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Drawing from intimate interviews with high school students and educators in the Mississippi Delta, student shot footage, and archival...

Justly Wed investigates the struggle for marriage equality, by looking back at the momentous 2004 decision by San Francisco to begin to...

Coming to this country with dreams of a better life, frontline caregivers, nannies and house cleaners risk it all to support their...

Equalization schools were established throughout the American South to maintain racial distance from Blacks. Austin created its own...

This Daytime Emmy Award winning documentary tells the story of the children who lived the history behind the landmark desegregation case...

Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU) was founded in 1981, only a dozen years after the Stonewall rebellion and only a couple of years...

Let Ohio Women Vote tells the story of the long fight for women’s suffrage in our state – a fight which created unpredictable alliances as well as surprising connections to national events. Special thanks to League of Women Voters of Greater Dayton Area, Cincinnati Area, and the US, and the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center for helping us bring these local stories to light.

Revisit Pittsburgh's struggles during the so-called golden era of civil rights, and meet many of the men and women who lit the way for...

In 1887, a gang of horse thieves killed as many as 34 Chinese gold miners along the Oregon and Idaho border in Hells Canyon.

Learn the story of Civil Rights leader Vel Phillips. Discover how Phillips achieved an impressive list of "firsts" as part of her legacy,...

Explore the historical and ongoing struggle for equality and dignity in Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ communities through regional perspectives and...

African Americans struggled to receive necessities: equality in education, housing, and job opportunities. We examine those issues and...

A look back at the history of the Women's Right To Vote Movement in Washington State.

This groundbreaking documentary explores segregation from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the modern Civil Rights movement. It...

Students and teachers from Black schools in Topeka discuss their experiences.

As Barack Obama became President of the United States, many people wanted to make the journey to Washington DC to join hundreds of...

With a Made-Up Mind: The History of the Black Vote in SW Florida explores Jim Crow legislation at the turn of the century to today’s push...

Wisconsin has a long, but hidden, LGBTQ+ history full of trailblazers who – when faced with intolerance – responded by creating...

The Ferguson unrest was a series of protests and riots which began in Ferguson, Missouri on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal...

On October 11th, 2021 hundreds of immigrants and their allies joined escalated marches throughout the country in "A Day Without Latinos."...