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- In 2020 a global pandemic sent the majority Latinx city of Chelsea, Massachusetts spiraling into chaos. Frontline workers risked their lives to help others, while City leaders came together in a desperate moment with a simple but inspired idea.
- Kafi Dixon is a Boston bus driver and urban farmer who seeks equity for low-income women of color who have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement. Carl Chandler, a community elder wants to tell his family's story to the wider world. They gather with twenty other adults living along the poverty line at a community center in Boston to study art, history, philosophy and literature in a rigorous yearlong tuition-free night course. Kafi reads dialogues about the city in Plato's Republic, yet faces rejection in her own hometown, a prosperous metropolis swept up by the allure of development and gentrification. Carl, a disabled senior citizen who raised two daughters as a single father, cares for his grandson and reads voraciously. James Rutenbeck, a white filmmaker from the suburbs, has come here to document their lives. Over five years he witnesses evictions, chaos and calm persistence. He wants to remain a witness and allow Carl and Kafi to tell their own stories, but over time comes to understand the film cannot be fully realized until he speaks up too.
- In a hard-pressed former mill town, an Irish-American Catholic parish must come to terms with the Latino city that surrounds it.
- The acclaimed fiddle group Childsplay has performed before hundreds of thousands of fiddle-music lovers over the years. After 33 years of touring together, CHILDSPLAY: THE PARTING GLASS captures their stirring farewell concert.
- This portrait follows preschoolers in Booneville, KY. With local employment largely limited to the school system, these children have caring and competent adults preparing them for better futures.
- This portrait introduces audiences to White Earth Nation in Minnesota. Preschoolers learn school readiness while engaging in tribal rituals, such as pow-wows, to prepare for kindergarten with a sense of identity. Former Tribal Chairwoman Erma Vizenor, herself an educator with graduate degrees, sums up the mission of White Earth early education as "a lifetime of choices instead of a lifetime of circumstances." She notes, "Education is our ticket out of poverty here; it was my ticket."
- "A Call to Action: The Freedom Budget of 1966" tells the story of a little known grassroots push for guaranteed income during the civil rights movement.
- "Nixon's Reversal: An Attempt to End Poverty" is the bizarre story of Richard Nixon's brief flirtation with guaranteed income.
- Stories highlighting early childhood education as the key to realizing the American Dream.