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The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the War on Drugs shot and killed Esequiel Hernández Jr.
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(Available now through October 30, 2009)
The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music provides both heartbeat and backbone to this rich examination of songs, drugs and dreams along the U.S./Mexico border.
Follow the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.'s garment factories and their long battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.
The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new front line in the border wars: suburbia.
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Photo Gallery: Two Views of the Border
The Border Film Project handed out six hundred disposable cameras to two groups on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border — undocumented migrants crossing the desert and American Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them.
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Bronx Princess - Exploring Parent-Child Relationships Through Letter Writing
This lesson plan is designed to be used with the film Bronx Princess, which chronicles the complex relationship between a young woman named Rocky and her Ghanaian mother as Rocky progresses from high school to college. Classrooms can use this film and its companion website resources to help students explore their own relationships with their parents through letter writing. (Note: This film sometimes uses English subtitles.)
In this slideshow, follow Rocky Otoo from her high school days through her trip to her father's palace in Ghana to her arrival at Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Penn....