Creative Action
Capturing the vibrant 2019 protests that pushed Puerto Rico’s governor to resign, the documentary Landfall examines life after Hurricane María and the debt and environmental crises that devastated the U.S. colony long before, prompting local resistance and creative action. Blackscrackle Films.
A Powerful Voice
Opening the 10th season of PBS’ America ReFramed, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America tells the story of the activist through her own words. Speeches, personal interviews, and songs illuminate the civil rights movement leader’s path from sharecropping in Mississippi to 15 years of influential activism. WORLD Channel / American Documentary.
Demanding Dignity
Journalist Kim Kelly resurrects erased labor stories in her book Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor. In demanding dignity, people of color, women, queer people, disabled people, sex workers, prisoners, and poor people ensured the rights that workers have today. Atria/One Signal Publishers.
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