TED Talks
TED: Fight for justice — even if you don't live to see it | Golriz Lucina
Storyteller Golriz Lucina recounts how the historic sacrifice of Iranian 19th-century poet and mystic Táhirih planted the seeds for the "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests today, offering an inspiring lesson in the value of acting with...
TED Talks
TED: Let's reframe cancel culture | Sarah Jones
Cancel culture launched a reckoning that was long overdue — but that doesn't mean it's getting everything right. Filmmaker and actor Sarah Jones slips in and out of various characters as she shares her personal experience with cancel...
TED Talks
TED: The ordinary people doing extraordinary things in Ukraine | Oleksandra Matviichuk
How do we defend people's freedom and dignity against authoritarianism, when the "law of war" doesn't seem to apply anymore? In the face of the Russian occupation of Ukraine, human rights lawyer and Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk...
TED Talks
TED: Unions for climate action! | Payton M. Wilkins
In the long term, shutting down a coal mine means cleaner air and a healthier environment — but in the short term, it can devastate a community or family that relied on the mine's paychecks to make ends meet. Environmental justice...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What caused the Rwandan Genocide? | Susanne Buckley-Zistel
For one hundred days in 1994, the African country of Rwanda suffered a horrific campaign of mass murder. Neighbor turned against neighbor as violence engulfed the region, resulting in the deaths of over one-tenth of the country's...
PBS
Uneasy Peace Takes Hold In Contested Region Of Azerbaijan
Ethnic-Armenian forces last week handed over two regions to Azerbaijani
control as part of Russia-brokered armistice that ended the six-week war
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Moscow has sent peacekeepers to the
ethnic-Armenian...
Curated Video
Clinton: gun violence shows US must protect all
Hillary Clinton says the spate of gun violence in the United States showed that "protecting all of God's children is America's calling."The Democratic presidential nominee spoke at church services in Charlotte, North Carolina, which has...
Curated Video
SYND 28-10-71CHIANG KAI SHEK STATEMENT FOLLOWING TAIWAN'S EXPULSION FROM UNITED NATIONS
Part of Chiang Kai Shek message to the Chinese people following UN vote expelling Taiwan, Nationalist China
1) STATEMENT: Nationalist Chinese gov'ernment spokesman reading statement by Chiang Kai Shek on vote, expelling Taiwan from the...
Curated Video
Reverend Al Sharpton says they will continue to fight for a federal grand jury to consider Brown killing
Reverend Al Sharpton called for the shooting of Michael Brown to be put before a federal grand jury during a church service in Ferguson dedicated to the memory of Brown.
Sharpton, a Baptist minister and civil rights activist, said that...
Curated Video
BOSNIA: REACTION TO NATO-LED ATTACK ON WAR CRIMINALS UPDATE
English/Nat
NATO-led troops seized three Bosnian Serbs and killed one other man Thursday in their first direct move against war crimes suspects.
The operation did not target the top suspect, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic....
Curated Video
Pakistan - Dismissed Bhutto addresses presser
The deposed Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto on Wednesday (6/11) demanded that President Farooq Ahmed Leghari step down, two days after he dismissed her and dissolved her government. Leghari dismissed Bhutto's three year old...
Curated Video
Human Rights Watch reax to conviction of 'Kingpin' of 1994 Rwandan genocide
1. Tilt down exterior of Human Rights Watch offices
2. Close up of "Human Rights Watch" sign
3. Set up of Reed Brody, European Press Director of Human Rights Watch
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Reed Brody, European Press Director of Human...
Curated Video
AUSTRIA: COMPENSATION TO NAZI-ERA FORCED LABOURERS (V)
Voice and effects
VOICED BY: Susan Poizner
In an historic recognition of Nazi crimes, Austria on Tuesday officially established a 6 (B) billion schilling (380 (M) million U-S dollar) fund to compensate thousands of surviving slave...
Crash Course
Legal System Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine takes a first look at the judicial branch. It's pretty easy to forget that the courts, and the laws that come out of them, affect our lives on a daily basis. But how exactly these decisions are made and where each...
Crash Course
Judicial Decisions: Crash Course Government and Politics
Today, Craig Benzine is going to dive into the factors that influence judicial decisions. As you may have noticed, the Supreme Court recently handed down some pretty big decisions on same-sex marriage (in Obergefell v Hodges) and the...
Crash Course
Sex Discrimination: Crash Course Government and Politics
Today, Craig is going to talk about employment discrimination, and we're going to focus primarily on women in the workforce. Discrimination against women tends to be handled somewhat differently in the courts as they are not a minority....
Crash Course
Congressional Leadership: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine explores the leadership structure of congress. We’ll break out the clone machine to examine the responsibilities of the speaker of the house, the majority and minority leaders as well as the majority and minority...
Crash Course
How Presidents Govern: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine talks about how the president gets things done. Filling the role of the executive branch is a pretty big job - much too big for just one person. It's so big that the president employs an entire federal...
TED Talks
TED: How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere) | Neal Katyal
The secret to winning an argument isn't grand rhetoric or elegant style, says US Supreme Court litigator Neal Katyal -- it takes more than that. With stories of some of the most impactful cases he's argued before the Court, Katyal shows...
Crash Course
Supreme Court of the United States Procedures: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine talks about what happens when a case makes it to the Supreme Court of the United States (or the SCOTUS). We're going to focus on court procedure today. We talk about how to petition to get your case heard, how...
Crash Course
Congressional Delegation: Crash Course Government and Politics
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about delegation, and informal powers. What are all these federal agencies about? Well, the president has a lot of stuff to do as the chief executive, and as much as Americans like to talk about...
TED Talks
TED: The legacy of racial injustice in the US criminal legal system | Nick Turner and Whitney Pennington Rodgers
In an engaging, insightful conversation, criminal justice reformer Nick Turner breaks down the ways the US criminal legal system perpetuates centuries-old racial and economic inequality. He joins TED current affairs curator Whitney...
SciShow
5 Psychology Experiments You Couldn't Do Today
In the past, some experiments were run in scary and unethical ways. From using children to unknowing subjects, these five experiments left people affected for the rest of their lives.
TED Talks
TED: The end of Roe v. Wade -- and what comes next | Kathryn Kolbert
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision protecting people's right to have an abortion in the United States, will be overturned within a year, says reproductive rights attorney Kathryn Kolbert. In this electrifying call to...