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Deej

Season 5 Episode 14

DEEJ is the story of DJ Savarese, a gifted, young writer and advocate for nonspeaking autistics. Once a “profoundly disabled” foster kid on a fast track to nowhere, DJ is now a first-year college student who insists on standing up for his peers: people who are dismissed as incompetent because they are neurologically diverse. Will Deej be able to find freedom for himself and others like himself?

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Blood Memory

Blood Memory

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Blood Memory

A survivor of America’s Indian Adoption Era helps Native adoptees find their way home.

Season 8 Episode 7

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First Vote

A look at Chinese American electoral organizing in North Carolina and Ohio.

Season 8 Episode 6

Vision Portraits

Vision Portraits

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Vision Portraits

A filmmaker's journey of how the deterioration of his vision will impact his life & work.

Season 8 Episode 5

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Tutwiler

Exploring the Alabama Prison Birth Project at Alabama's women-only Julia Tutwiler Prison.

Season 8 Episode 3

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Jaddoland

An intimate portrait of the work and process of visual artist, and immigrant, Lahib Jaddo.

Season 8 Episode 2

Where the Pavement Ends

Where the Pavement Ends

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Where the Pavement Ends

A haunting look at the deep and lasting wounds of segregation and racial injustice.

Season 8 Episode 1

Struggle & Hope

Struggle & Hope

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Struggle & Hope

The stories, and fight, of the residents of the last remaining all-Black towns in the U.S.

Season 7 Episode 4

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Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route

Exploring the rise, demise and contested resurgence of Detroit, America's "motor city."

Season 7 Episode 3

On a Knife Edge

On a Knife Edge

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On a Knife Edge

The coming-of-age story of George Dull Knife, a Lakota teen fighting for Native justice.

Season 5 Episode 15

We Like It Like That

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Exploring 1960s music history when Bugaloo defined a new generation of urban Latinos.

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