17 year old high school student Steve Bellafiore is determined to run for congress in order to challenge Franklin Baumann, a confrontational candidate spreading harsh messages of intolerance and exclusion. As part of his campaign, Steve creates a grassroots…
Frederik Willem de Klerk was the president of the South African apartheid regime, and as such, he was at least morally responsible for the states human rights violations. However, he made an about face by facilitating the release of…
In Turkey, city-bred Emre has taken a teaching job in a remote Kurdish village. He struggles with culture shock, isolation, and the absurdity of being a teacher who speaks no Kurdish attempting to educate students who speak no Turkish.
On October 7, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay. Years later, Michele Josue, a close friend of Matts, revisits the shocking case with…
Cenk Uygur went from being a corporate attorney and unknown talk show host on local Public Access TV to an internet sensation with his online news show The Young Turks, which has amassed over one billion views on YouTube….
