Mountain Top Removal
Throughout southern Appalachia mountaintop removal coal mining is on the rise, blasting and leveling highland forests and streams. The process literally changes the geology of the region. Citizens negatively impacted
Throughout southern Appalachia mountaintop removal coal mining is on the rise, blasting and leveling highland forests and streams. The process literally changes the geology of the region. Citizens negatively impacted
Uncensored is a documentary that recounts the peril journalists endured while covering Colombia’s narcoterrorism violence in the 1980s and 1990s during the reign of Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel. In 1985,
The story of Seabreeze, NC. A black owned and operated beach community that thrived during the early 1900s, on the coast of North Carolina. An encapsulation of Seabreeze’s foundation, people,
Director Rex Miller began searching for Althea Gibson’s story because of a photograph that hung on the wall of his childhood bedroom. Taken in 1960, it shows two brown-skinned women,
Juana Luz Tobar Ortega came to the United States 24 years ago as an asylum seeker from Guatemala. For the last 6 years living in North Carolina, Juana has checked
Charleston’s genteel reverie was shattered by shootings that exposed the underbelly of the city’s tourist mythology. Can black and white residents arrive at conciliation or will immutable Southern politeness censor
Three spoken word poets struggle through poverty, discrimination, PTSD and abandonment to prove the power of the word. When Kamaya Martin’s father abandons her mother with four kids and bills
Childless by Choice: Love, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness explores the motivations and decision-making processes of couples who have chosen or are considering a “child-free life.” Filmmaker Laura Scott,
UTICA puts a face to issues surrounding food security and access, community development, and agriculture. The stakes are high for Utica as access to one of life’s necessities — food
Directed by Bree Newsome Bass, THEY TRIED TO BURY US highlights the evolution of Bree’s activist organizing since 2015 when she scaled the flagpole at South Carolina’s capital and removed
Beginning in 2013, 30 diverse community members, ages 15-65, came together during a 16-week period to engage in Durham’s Civil Rights History through a series of lectures, music performances, research
Three working-class women from across North Carolina take part in a bold grassroots experiment—testing whether ordinary people, not institutions or heroes, can reclaim democracy by uniting rural communities against a
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