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Experience the personal stories behind the headlines. Devoted to telling stories that humanize complex issues, WORLD shares the best of public media in news, documentaries, and informational programming that helps us understand conflicts, movements and cultures. WORLD's focus is on its original content, offering a national platform to makers examining issues too often ignored by mainstream media.

The Conversation Remix: Learning to Breathe

9m 44s

LEARNING TO BREATHE is the sequel to the 2015 New York Times Op-Doc 'A Conversation About Growing Up Black' where Black boys, teens, and young men shared their thoughts about race in America. Five years later, the young men return to compare and contrast how their relationships with racial justice, systemic racism, and social inequity & inequality have changed following the death of George Floyd.

Episodes

  • YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Lemon Andersen: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Lemon Andersen

    3m 30s

    Andrew "Lemon" Andersen is a poet raised in Brooklyn. He watched his stepfather, father and mother die from heroin abuse and AIDS complications, leaving him and his brother to grow up alone. With talent, encouragement from friends and mentors in the Hip Hop community, Andersen rose to critical acclaim. He has appeared in Def Poetry Jam, the PBS documentary Lemon and one-man show County of Kings.

Extras + Features

  • Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - John Lewis: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - John Lewis

    4m 28s

    Student activist Jonathan Butler and Congressman John Lewis discuss the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize," and the Civil Rights Movement then and now, including Congressman Lewis's own experiences. He also offers advice to the activists of the movement today. From the WORLD Channel special, "Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now."

  • A Place in the Middle - Trailer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    A Place in the Middle - Trailer

    1m 22s

    Eleven-year-old Ho'onani dreams of leading the hula troupe at her inner-city Honolulu school. The only trouble is that the group is just for boys. She's fortunate that her teacher understands first-hand what it's like to be “in the middle” - the Hawaiian tradition of embracing both male and female spirit. Together they set out to prove that what matters most is what's in your heart.

  • America By The Numbers | Promo: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    America By The Numbers | Promo

    1m 7s

    America By The Numbers with Maria Hinojosa is a new and innovative documentary series which will be available to public TV stations and viewers beginning in October 2014. America By The Numbers will reveal how dramatic changes in the country’s demographics are playing out in mainstream USA. Each half-hour program will focus on human stories from every corner of the nation.

  • WORLD Channel Promo Reel: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel Promo Reel

    3m 5s

    WORLD Channel seeks to provide an alternative view of public media content in a new digital age.

  • State of Re: Union: Pilot - Tease : asset-mezzanine-16x9

    State of Re: Union: Pilot - Tease

    54s

    In the wake of the Gabriel Giffords shooting and Arizona’s legislative attempts to cleanse the state of undocumented immigrants, it would be easy to think Tucson is a community that’s lost its balance, that’s grown hard, insulated and frightened. But as we’ll see Tucson is a community that’s facing issues that are forging new alliances while severing others.

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