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Study Guide Theme: Mental Health
April 13, 2020
More Than a Month
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this thoughtful, humorous journey, More Than a Month investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.
April 13, 2020
My Architect
Louis Kahn, a giant among twentieth-century architects, left a legacy of brilliantly designed and engineered buildings. Kahn's personal life was mysterious, and his death, alone and unidentified in Penn Station in 1974, revealed that he led not a double but a triple life, shuttling between his le...
April 13, 2020
La Playa D.C.
Tomás, an Afro-Colombian teenager driven from his home by war, settles with his brothers in the section of Bogota known as “La Playa.” Working as a barber’s apprentice, Tomás is just beginning to find a place for himself when his younger brother Jairo disappears. Tomás must make a risk-filled jou...
April 13, 2020
Brooklyn Castle
Brooklyn Castle follows five chess team members at a New York school, showing how chess helps transforms the school into one of the city's best, but recession-driven budget cuts threaten to undermine the school's championship chess team.
