Why We Resist

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A full-length documentary of 12 diverse individuals telling their life stories, and how having access to health care changed their lives. Worth the watch! (Streaming)

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The story of Kalief Browder. Watch and read Oct 2016 update here.

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Why A Black Teen Who Was Beaten By Police Decided To Join The NYPD

Eric Adams joined the police department intent on reforming it. "If I was not a voice for change it would bother me," he says. He was on the force for 22 years. Now he is Brooklyn's borough president.

“As a black man and former police officer, my guest, Eric Adams, has a dual perspective on racism and the police. In a recent New York Times op-ed, he wrote that there were days when he marched shoulder-to-shoulder with outraged New Yorkers chanting, no justice, no peace, after police shot and killed or brutally beat a black man.

There were evenings when he was policing the same protests, trying to keep the peace. And people would direct their anger at him, not realizing he'd stood with them just hours earlier. He says as a police officer, he tried to uphold the law while raising his voice to reform policing and make it better.”

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Music video for Aloe Blacc’s “Wake Me Up”  about the struggle to support a family and stay together.

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Un video corto sobre los retos de ser estudiante indocumentado y de dedicarse a lograr el Sueño Americano.

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In 2014, three young sisters who had reunited with their family just two years earlier were ordered to leave the country and return to a Ukraine in the middle of a crisis. Read more here.

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In 2014, three young sisters who had reunited with their family just two years earlier were ordered to leave the country and return to a Ukraine in the middle of a crisis. Read more here.

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In 2014, three young sisters who had reunited with their family just two years earlier were ordered to leave the country and return to a Ukraine in the middle of a crisis. Read more here.

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A short film about the challenges of being an undocumented student and chasing the American Dream

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A collection of stories that have helped me better understand my friends and neighbors, and what’s at stake at this political moment.