FRONTLINE “Born Poor” Tuesday, October 7 at 10:00 pm In Born Poor, the filmmakers follow Kaylie, Johnny, and Brittany across three chapters of their lives as they grow from kids... Read More ...
Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby.
“Who spilled vodka on the cat?” are words that, to my knowledge, have never been spoken in a movie before. Until now. They are uttered by 12-year-old Mikal in the documentary Flophouse America, which ...
Dive into the human stories behind America's poverty lines as we explore eleven powerful films that shed light on the struggles, resilience, and tenacity of those living under challenging economic ...
When filmmaker Nick Beaulieu set out to make his first documentary, he wanted to understand an apparent contradiction in his ...
Joe Thomas is The Daily Signal’s Virginia correspondent. He is a 37-year broadcasting veteran with 17 years covering Virginia from the marches to the memorials and everything in between. Ever since ...
Imagine a society in which almost 1 in 4 African-Americans are in poverty; for white people, the number is less than 1 in 10 (Proctor et al., 12). Imagine that society in which not only black children ...
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