Harvesting Stones: The Jewish Farmers of Eastern Connecticut It’s the 1890s, Connecticut Yankees are selling their rocky farms, Jews are fleeing Czarist Russia, and a Jewish back-to-the-land movement sees turning shtetl refugees into farmers as the best way for them to become productive, self-sufficient Americans. Add some funding from the German-Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de […]

THE TALK is a two-hour PBS documentary about the increasingly necessary conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, […]

Join us for a conversation about the Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, that mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement--Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge […]

Why does Minnesota suffer through some of the worst racial disparities in the nation? One answer is the spread of racist, restrictive real estate covenants in the early 20th century. Jim Crow of the North charts the progression of racist policies and practices from the advent of restrictive covenants after the turn of the last […]

Join us for a conversation about this documentary film City of Trees. The film follows three trainees and the the directors of a stimulus-funded green job-training program designed to put unemployed people back to work by caring for parks in Washington DC during the 2008 recession. During the recession, joblessness exceeded 20 percent east of […]