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"The League"

Meet the first Black baseball players

by Ellen Rolfes
Apr 8, 2024
We're watching “The League,” a documentary about the contributions that Black baseball players and the Negro Leagues made to America’s pastime.
A magazine cover featuring Jackie Robinson in 1952.
Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

What “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó” can teach about combatting loneliness as we age

by Ellen Rolfes
Mar 25, 2024
While most older folks would prefer to age in place, home sharing — like that featured in “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó” — could offer more older Americans the ability to stay in their homes while reducing the risks of social isolation.
Courtesy Disney+
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

The costs of banning books

by Ellen Rolfes and Samantha Fields
Mar 20, 2024
This week, we’re watching “The ABCs of Book Banning” and looking into the economic impact of book bans for schools and blacklisted authors.
Book bans have nearly doubled in recent years.
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

Oscar winner "The Last Repair Shop" explores the costs of repairing musical instruments

by Ellen Rolfes
Mar 11, 2024
“The Last Repair Shop” focuses on the people who maintain the 140,000 musical instruments owned by Los Angeles Unified School District public schools.
Courtesy Searchlight Pictures
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

Arlo Washington is the barber — and banker — of Little Rock

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Mar 7, 2024
Washington's mission to bring economic justice to Arkansas is on display in the Oscar-nominated film "The Barber of Little Rock."
"If you can have a trade and a skill that's essential and needed, and you also have access to an opportunity, then you're able to create a sustainable, profitable and scalable business for yourself as an entrepreneur," Arlo Washington said.
Courtesy Story Syndicate
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"Invisible Beauty"

Bethann Hardison on why changes in the modeling industry take so long

by David Brancaccio and Erika Soderstrom
Feb 26, 2024
We hear how model and activist Bethann Hardison continues to fight for diverse runways.
Courtesy Magnolia Pictures
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"Invisible Beauty"

Why the fashion industry's commitment to diversity feels like a fad

by David Brancaccio and Erika Soderstrom
Feb 21, 2024
Brands’ commitment to change the industry ebbs and flows.
Three looks from the Luar show during February 2024 New York Fashion Week.
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"Invisible Beauty"

Addressing dismal working conditions in a glamorous industry

by Ellen Rolfes
Feb 13, 2024
Proposed legislation in New York state would increase labor protections for models, content creators and other behind-the-scenes fashion pros.  
Fashion is glamorous, but it’s also work, and workers often have few protections.
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"Invisible Beauty"

Behind the catwalk: how models are recruited and signed to exploitative contracts

by David Brancaccio , Erika Soderstrom and Natalie White
Feb 13, 2024
What is being done to protect models and hold agencies accountable?
"'Suffocating.' 'Exploitative.' 'Opaque,'" are some of the words used to describe the contracts models work under, Variety's Tatiana Siegel explained.
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"Invisible Beauty"

Inside Bethann Hardison's fight to progress and diversify the fashion industry

by David Brancaccio
Feb 5, 2024
Model and agent Bethann Hardison has fought to overturn the culture of racism and discrimination that's pervaded much of the fashion world.
Courtesy Magnolia Pictures
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