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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| Expires: | Runtime: 30s
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Extras
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Silence in Sikeston | Love & Grief for a Young, Black Father
A mother talks about her son's life in Chicago and Sikeston, MO before his death by police.0:59 -
Silence in Sikeston | Witnesses to a Lynching
Two residents recall the day they, as young children, witnessed the lynching of Cleo Wright in 1942.0:59 -
Silence in Sikeston | Trailer
How a lynching and police killing 78 years apart haunt the rural community of Sikeston, Missouri.1:17 -
Segregation Scholarships | Traveling North from Jim Crow South
Traveling by train, Black Americans had to endure second-class citizen accommodations and attitudes.1:28 -
Segregation Scholarships | Trailer
Black Americans forced to go North for advanced degrees return home to fight Jim Crow in the South.1:16 -
Segregation Scholarships | Preview
Black Americans forced to go North for advanced degrees return home to fight Jim Crow in the South.0:30 -
Silence in Sikeston | Preview
How a lynching and police killing 78 years apart haunt the rural community of Sikeston, Missouri.0:30 -
Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Oysters
Aquafarmer Kellen Singleton loves oysters. But warming waters are challenging their future.0:59 -
Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Organic Farming
Thelonius Cook shares his worries over organic farming and climate change on the Eastern Shore.0:58 -
American Problems, Trans Solutions | The Meaning of Home
What does home mean to you? Kayla Gore talks about My Sistah's House and hopes for its legacy.0:47
