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Protesters from a 1963 Woolworth's sit-in discuss the event and the frustration leading up to it.
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This film examines the imbalance and waste created by the dueling desires to save time while consuming less.
We Sing, We Pray
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A dual gender Native American describes their life as a healer despite health concerns.
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Cultural burning can still play a beneficial role in California's landscape
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From food to fiber, fire boosts the Sierra Nevada's bounty.
Girl Connected: Michelle
Meet some of the girls who are uplifting each other around the world and the issues they are confronting.
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How the U.S. Forest Service chose fire suppression as its official policy a century ago.
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The park-like forests of the 19th Century Sierra Nevada were sustained by carefully planned fires conducted by Native people.
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Early American observers were too unsophisticated to appreciate the accomplishments of California's Native peoples.
A man sells toffee coconuts in a street of Havana
Marc Frank, an American journalist who has lived in Cuba for more than two decades, shares his experiences and observations of the food system in Cuba.
Dining with the Chef delicious food
KCET plans to return to the Los Angeles Times' annual culinary event The Taste in spectacular fashion featuring multi-cultural food programming,…
Women In Their Organic Chilli Farm near Techiman, Ghana
Dr. Elver was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. In her work, she stresses the interconnectedness of the global food system and the important role governments play in hastening agricultural reform.
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