It has been six months after hurricane Maria and the island of Puerto Rico is still struggling with massive infrastructure issues. Samantha Bee takes her show on the road to Puerto Rico to investigate. This segment features Allana Harking investigating a group of women in Loíza, Puerto Rico who, in the absence of Federal FEMA assistance, began asking the community what their most pressing concerns were. Discovering that a frequent answer was the lack of a roof, they set about mitigating those concerns by installing tarps to provide protection. [Read more…]
How the NRA Hijacks Gun Control Debates | Video Worth Watching
Who does the NRA really represent? Is it its gun owning membership, or the companies that send millions of dollars its way? Hmmm. Vox’s Carlos Maza and Coleman Lowndes present some revealing statistics and a remarkably analogous historical situation to help answer that question. [Read more…]
Activist Dolores Huerta and Carlos Santana Have a Decades-Long Relationship | Video Worth Watching
Over a montage of excerpts from the documentary Dolores, we hear from Dolores Huerta and one of her long-time supporters and the producer of the documentary, Carlos Santana, for whom she is the “Queen of Light”. [Read more…]
Linda Brown Recalls Her Role in the Historic ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ Case | Video Worth Watching
Linda Brown, the schoolgirl at the heart of the Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit, died on Sunday, at the age of seventy-six. In this video recorded in 2004, she relates her memories of the situation that led her father to file the court case that ultimately led to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional. [Read more…]
Eleven year-old student Naomi Wadler speaks at March For Our Lives Rally | Video Worth Watching
Eleven year-old student Naomi Wadler speaks at March For Our Lives Rally. “I’m here today to honor the words of Toni Morrison: ‘If there’s a book that you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.’ ” [Read more…]
D.C. choir sings with Jennifer Hudson, ‘The Times They Are A Changin’ at March For Our Lives Rally | Video Worth Watching
Jennifer Hudson, accompanied by the D.C. Choir, shapes a new vision of Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A Changin’.
And sometimes silence speaks louder than words. Emma Gonzalez uses a calculated silence to make a powerful statement in her address to the March For Our Lives assembly. [Read more…]
Music to Inspire a March For Our Lives Movement | Video Worth Watching
Here’s some insight into why young people are massing today in Washington, D.C. as well as 835 other locations around the U.S. The survivors of the Parkland, Florida, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School: “We’re tired of hearing that we’re too young to ever make a change.” … “We’re not gonna let you win. We’re putting up a fight.” … “Stand up for one another and we’ll never give up the fight.”
And they are not marching alone. There will be battle-tested veterans marching with them. [Read more…]
NRA, Your Time Is Running Out | Video Worth Watching
Heading into the weekend and this Saturday’s March For Our Lives, here’s a glimpse of how the this generation is turning the tables on the NRA. They’re unabashedly able to take the NRA’s rhetoric (as delivered by one of it’s more histrionic spokespersons) and turn it back on itself. No fear! [Read more…]
The History Of Women’s Pain – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Video Worth Watching
In honor of Women’s History Month, Laurie Metcalf joins Samantha Bee to give us a brief history of women’s constant, apparently untreatable pain through the ages. [Read more…]
Cambridge Analytica: Undercover Secrets of Trump’s Data Firm | Video Worth Watching
For readers of Tuesday’s Starting Line, here’s one of the sources mentioned in the post. Britain’s Channel 4 posted on YouTube, video from the undercover investigation into Cambridge Analytica. This segment includes some fascinating discussion related to the Trump presidential campaign. [Read more…]
#WhatIf Video From Parkland Survivor David Hogg | Video Worth Watching
Here’s an example of the new gun reform campaign shaping up on Social Media, this one from Parkland survivor David Hogg. [Read more…]
A Tribe Called Red – The Light II Ft. Lido Pimienta | Video Worth Watching
From the Canadian electronic music group of First Nations musicians, A Tribe Called Red here is their video ‘The Light II’ featuring Juno Award winning Lido Pimienta. [Read more…]
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