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In a world filled with noise, WORLD is here to break through - barriers, stereotypes, outmoded expectations -- what we thought we knew about each other. WORLD offers hope and promise by presenting new ideas, voices and solutions outside of the mainstream. From documentaries on America ReFramed, Doc World and Local, USA to tellers on Stories from the Stage, WORLD illustrates the range, complexity and resilience of humanity, and demonstrates that change is possible. At this moment, it's time for WORLD to break through.
WORLD has won a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, an International Documentary Association Award, a National News and Documentary Emmy Award, Webby Awards, and many others honoring diversity of content and makers.
Carried by 194 partner stations in markets representing 77% of US TV households, WORLD can be experienced at WORLDChannel.org, social and video platforms - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and the PBS app - and on YouTube @WORLDChannel.
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Our latest film, Linnentown, is now streaming. Watch it and tell us how eminent domain has affected you and your family?
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Hello Doc Film Fans! Do you like watching feature-length films or just shorts? We want to know. Complete our survey so we can continue producing content just for you! Thank you! 🎥 questionpro.com/t/AatUaZ4lnj
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Selecting a college or university is one of the biggest decisions a person can make in their young life. HBCU students and alumni, why did you pick a historically Black college/university?
Watch students at Morehouse share why they chose this Atlanta institution in HBCU Week: Changemakers: https://youtu.be/y-Mlx6ujOPE
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In March 1990, Morgan State University students staged a sit-in demanding just funding for their school. The six days of peaceful protesting led to the state house and the governor in Annapolis, and eventually a settlement providing millions to Maryland's HBCUs. Watch the whole story in HBCU: Changemakers: https://youtu.be/y-Mlx6ujOPE
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#DIDYOUKNOW HBCUs and Their Black students contributed to the Civil Rights Movement? On Feb. 1, 1960, 65 years ago, the Greensboro Four - Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil - sat down at a North Carolina Woolworth's lunch counter. The four N.C. A&T State University students started a nationwide sit-in and sparked non-violent activism including the Freedom Riders and the 1990 Morgan State University protest.
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LUSA: HBCU Week: Changemakers tonight 2/3 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y-Mlx6ujOPE
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Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) 2/13 on TV and on the PBS app: bit.ly/WC_EOTP103
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Hey Documentary Lovers 🎥❤️! Whether you watch our films or shorts, we want to know what you want more of on our channel. Fill out our short survey so that you can help us understand your likes, dislikes and everything in between - your answers will determine how we best serve our audience (that’s you!). With much appreciation from the team at WORLD! questionpro.com/t/AatUaZ4lnj
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The saying is that you can fight fire with fire. And to the firelighters - Indigenous women of the Yurok and Karuk tribes, the knowledge and action behind controlled burns are necessary methods of fire prevention. Watch the documentary "Firelighters: Fire Is Medicine" now:
#Firelighters #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #women #fire #wildfires #land #california
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On Saturday, January 4, Fannie Lou Hamer received the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously from President Biden. Watch her story and the fight for freedom and democracy in the award-winning documentary:
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When speaking about the 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright, Sikeston native Harry Howard said “it’s like if we don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen.” But what happens to an individual or a community when you stay silent about trauma?
Watch SILENCE IN SIKESTON: https://youtu.be/fsSuD8kQS0E
LISTEN to the podcast: play.prx.org/listen?uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wgbh.or…
#WorldMentalHealthDay #mentalhealth ‪@RETROREPORT‬ ‪@KFF-HealthNews‬
Source: standard-democrat.com/story/2929707.html
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Who Is responsible for mitigating sea level rise and repairing floodwater damage?
Watch INUNDATION DISTRICT and decide for yourself through the story of one coastal city: https://youtu.be/ab9p4yBGzAg
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