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Independent Lens
Breaking The News
Season 25
Episode 11
Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in flux, and the voices often left out of the narrative, the documentary Breaking the News shows change doesn’t come easy.
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Hazing reveals the tradition of underground rituals that are abusive and sometimes deadly.

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An activist detective searches for missing migrants in rural South Texas.
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Inside the family-run newspaper keeping local journalism alive.

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Two activists fight to hold the chemical industry accountable for a devastating legacy.

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A Muslim mortician uses the rituals of death to teach two troubled teenagers how to live better lives.

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The murder of a police sergeant tests the D.A.’s resolve to never seek the death penalty.

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Meet the indomitable Dolores Huerta, who led the fight for racial and labor justice.

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Part Two of The Graduates

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Primera parte de Los Graduados

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Part One of The Graduates

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The rich culinary tradition of soul food and its relevance to black cultural identity.