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Along with our partners, Move to Include convened this important community conversation on ableism and inclusion. This panel discussion features nationally recognized disability rights activist, Imani Barbarin, moderator Jeiri Flores, a Rochester-based disability rights advocate, and local community members who share their own lived experiences.

In this special edition of "Connections with Evan Dawson", we discuss recent legislation and its impact on the disability community. How often are people with disabilities - and their caregivers - brought into the discussion? What are the risks of legislating without that input? Who should be helping guide these policies? Our panel includes Chris Hilderbrant, Heather Burroughs, and Brian Weber.

A racially complex American city confronts its past and future. When a Black female city councilor, once bussed as a child to hostile neighborhoods, is catapulted to Acting Mayor, she breaks 200 years of white male mayorship. Boston's old school politics are further challenged when the top candidates in the historic 2021 mayoral race are all non-white women.

The work of elections in the US has fundamentally changed. For decades, election administration was considered a significant but quiet civil service job. Since 2020 election workers have dealt with endless harassment, accusations of wrong-doing, constant questioning of their integrity, and coordinated strategies designed to deter and distract them from their most important work. With a controversial presidential election ahead, US election officials, in rural and urban areas

The Three Mile Island accident on March 28, 1979 is still considered the worst at a U.S. nuclear plant in history. This documentary details what happened inside the containment building at TMI on March 28, the chaos, confusion, miscommunication and fear in the area surrounding the plant afterwards and the legacy of TMI after the accident.

President Donald Trump went to Iowa on Thursday to start the countdown to the nation’s 250th Independence Day next year. To mark the anniversary, the nonpartisan Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress is looking at 250 years of U.S. innovation. John Yang speaks with Glenn Nye, the center’s president and CEO, about the project. Education resources available at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/07/what-the-us-has-accomplished-in-250-yea

The story of the now legendary Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56. Locally engineered by Montgomery's Black community, this nonviolent protest to end bus segregation inspired a new era in freedom and human rights struggles around the globe.

Exploring Bernie Sanders' relation to the political sphere in the U.S. as one of the only independent Senators in the country.