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America Reframed

American Graduate Week on WORLD | Promo

WORLD presents a week of education-themed docs drawing attention to challenges facing students and teachers when the U.S. high school dropout rate has increased alarmingly. Inspired by the American Graduation initiative, the films also focus on reform and special education. Anchoring A.G. Week are WORLD broadcast-exclusives - America ReFramed's "The Medicine Game" and "The New Public."

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La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered
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52:16
A collective memory of Mt. Pleasant's Salvadoran community and the May 1991 rebellion.
Any Given Day
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1:24:30
A filmmaker and three Chicagoans navigate the complexities of living with mental illness.
Black Stories
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1:31:22
Off the Georgia coast, two brothers grow up in an enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people.
Fannie Lou Hamer's America
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58:41
The remarkable life of a fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist.
Far East Deep South
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1:13:21
A Chinese American family’s search for their roots leads them to the Mississippi Delta.
Tutwiler
45:22
Exploring the Alabama Prison Birth Project at Alabama's women-only Julia Tutwiler Prison.
We Like It Like That
1:15:27
Exploring 1960s music history when Bugaloo defined a new generation of urban Latinos.
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