Legal Lens | Promo
Season 5
Episode 4
About the Episode
Twelve Harvard Law students from six countries explore how laws and regulations can both disrupt lives and encourage constructive change. With intimate and powerful profiles of people -- either caught in or helped by the levers of the law -- these short films examine the jeopardy to people's homes and lives.
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Extras
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Segregation Scholarships | Rosenwald Schools
The Rosenwald Schools were built to educate young Black children in the segregated American South.1:32 -
Inundation District | Boston's Made Land
Did you know that Boston was once a peninsula? Nancy S. Seasholes explains how the city came to be.3:29 -
Firelighters: Fire is Medicine | Trailer
Women leaders reclaim for their right to share the indigenous practice of controlled burning.1:21 -
Scha'nexw Elhtal'nexw Salmon People: Preserving a Way of Life | Trailer
A love story of salmon, water and family that explores this deep connection for the Lummi people.1:12 -
Silence in Sikeston | Beyond the Lens with Cara Anthony
Journalist Cara Anthony reveals a piece of family history that parallels SILENCE IN SIKESTON.8:12 -
Segregation Scholarships | Investing in Black Education
The scholarships provided educational opportunity for Black Americans while maintaining segregation.1:14 -
Inundation District | Trailer
Examining the short-sighted political decisions of one American city in an era of rising seas.1:18 -
Inundation District | Preview
Examining the short-sighted political decisions of one American city in an era of rising seas.0:29 -
Silence in Sikeston | Meet the Makers
A conversation about the film and podcast and what they examine and expose about silence and health.16:10 -
Silence in Sikeston | Before Lynching Became a Crime
Before the death of Cleo Wright in 1942, lynching was never prosecuted as a federal crime.0:56
