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Credit: Vanessa Carr; African American family Caption: Kristy Miller and her daughter Andrea Hughes at the beach in Ludington, MI
Beyond the Films
May, 5, 2025

Saying Goodbye Twice: Nine Essential Tips Dementia Caregivers Need to Know

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Special Collections at the Boston Public Library, as a woman reads in the semi darkened room at a desk, with a desk lamp making her glow
Beyond the Films
April, 28, 2025

More Than Books: 10 Different Ways Public Libraries Make Our Lives Better

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Ashley Chea dribbles the ball around a player during a game when she was still at Flintridge Prep High School, wearing white and sky blue jersey
Beyond the Films
April, 7, 2025

Ashley Chea: From Flintridge Prep to Princeton to PBS

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artwork by artist Kristen Uroda of an african american spaceman with hi-top fade hair singing into giant floating mic in space
Beyond the Films
April, 2, 2025

More than a Sample Size: The Legacy of Funk Music in Hip-Hop

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from history of white people in america episode 6, the US capitol with a huge number of illustrations from world cultures of diverse peoples, none of them racial caricatures
Beyond the Films
December, 18, 2024

Behind the Animated, Musical Documentary About “Race Roulette”

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A sculpture of a silver human head made to look like a grenade.
Beyond the Films
November, 8, 2024

Make Art or Die? For Some Veterans Creating Art Can Heal from Trauma

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Colorado 2020 Electors with CO Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, they are all wearing protective face masks and stand on the steps of the capitol in Denver.
Beyond the Films
September, 18, 2024

America’s Electoral College: Six Surprising Facts About the Who and How

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Illustration of a woman with black hair, red headband, and cat-eye glasses side-eyeing a rooster in front of a wall of yellow wallpaper.
Beyond the Films
June, 7, 2024

Pride in Our Art: 10 Queer Comic Artists Rise Up Other LGBTQ+ Cartoonists

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Headshot of Producer/Director Alison O'Daniel, a woman with light skin tone and chest-length brown hair. She wears clear-framed, round glasses and a bright orange shirt against a blue background.
Behind the Films
May, 20, 2024

“To Film with Your Ears”: Reinventing Cinematic Language with The Tuba Thieves

Independent Lens in Behind the Films
A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a NASA tee shirt sits in a isokinetic testing chair in a laboratory.
Beyond the Films
May, 13, 2024

The Mars Mission Tightrope: My Experiences as an Analog Astronaut 

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A German astronaut aboard a space station looks at the camera while holding CIMON, a robotic companion with a digital smiley face on its monitor.
Beyond the Films
May, 6, 2024

How Science Fiction Confronts the Real Isolation of Space

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German astronaut Alex Gerst looks out of the window of a space station.
Behind the Films
April, 29, 2024

What Extreme Outer Space Isolation Can Teach Humans

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