Brainwaves Video Anthology
David E. Kirkland - 'The Song of the Smoke' by W.E.B. DuBois
David E. Kirkland is a transdisciplinary scholar of English and urban education, who explores the intersections among urban youth culture, language and literacy, urban teacher preparation, and digital media. He analyzes culture,...
TMW Media
Shapes & Colors: Big and little shapes and how they fit
Learning how different shapes fit. Fun things in everyday life of certain shapes. Shapes & Colors, Part 5
60 Second Histories
Rosa Parks: refuses to give up her seat on the bus
In the second of 3 clips, Rosa Parks tells the story of how she made a protest against the segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Food Farmer Earth
A Critical Head Start for Pre-Schoolers: Eating Healthy Foods
Head Start began as an eight-week demonstration project in 1965 to help break the cycle of poverty, providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and...
Curated Video
Who has the Right to Vote in the United States?
Puerto Ricans pays taxes but can't vote in Presidential Elections. While in Chicago, between 2006 and 2016, 199 dead voted from beyond the grave! So how does voting law really work in the United States?
TLDR News
Britain's Census Results: Ethnicity, Religion & Identity
The UK has just released the complete data from the recent census, so we wanted to dive into the data and find out who Britain really is (well specifically England and Wales). So let's uncover the ethnicities, religions & identities...
Curated Video
A Tribute to Virgil Abloh: Creative Director Louis Vuitton
Ghanaian-American creative director Virgil Abloh broke boundaries in the tradition-soaked fashion industry, bringing streetwear to the highest levels of the luxury market, as well as becoming one of the few Black designers to take the...
Professor Dave Explains
Color and Refraction
What is color? What is it that determines the color of an object? Good thing we just learned about electromagnetic radiation! Especially the visible spectrum. Let's take a look.
Curated Video
Betsy Ross Flag: The Flag that Made and Divided America
In 1777, The Betsy Ross Flag was adopted by the thirteen colonies fighting for freedom as the United States’ first official flag. But not everyone in America was free.
KERA
Diversity in High School
Many cities have seen growth in their population, and the high schools in these cities have become a fusion of races and ethnicities. Frisco, Texas has changed dramatically in the last twenty-five years. Not only has it changed from a...
Red Rock Films
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
How the skills and bravery of men in combat helped to desegregate the military.
TMW Media
Shapes & Colors: Shapes around us and drawing colors
Which shape is which by pointing to it. Drawing and saying colors. Shapes & Colors, Part 3
Intelligence Squared
Lionel Shriver on Why Identity Politics is Tearing Society Apart
"If anyone aims to put Lionel Shriver straight, white female on my tombstone, I'm definitely getting cremated".
Curated Video
Students and the Struggle for School Integration
The story of Barbara Johns and her fellow students fight for school integration resulting in the successful case - Brown v. Board of Education.
Curated Video
Claudette Colvin: The Original Rosa Parks
You know the story of David and Goliath, right? Well, America has its own version. Only our hero is 15-year-old African-American, school girl Claudette Colvin and in 1955, she took on the State of Alabama for real. The original Rosa Parks!
Catalyst University
Genetics | X-chromosome Inactivation, Barr Bodies, and the Calico Cat
X-chromosome inactivation in various sex chromosome genotypes (XX, XY, XXY, XXX, XO) and resulting Barr bodies; the Lyon hypothesis; the proposed mechanism of Calico cats
Rachel's English
Keukenhof Garden and Color Names -- American English
Study the pronunciation of colors in Keukenhof gardens.
Curated Video
Cult of Domesticity
The Cult of Domesticity was a school of thought that middle and upper class women should be confined to the home and aspire to be model wives and mothers. But it wasn’t just men who thought that way, many women did too!
Curated Video
When the Youth of Birmingham Changed History
In 1963, school children from Birmingham, Alabama skipped class to demonstrate for racial equality. Met with police violence, they helped to bring about significant change. The Birmingham Children's Crusade, as it was known, has gone...
TMW Media
Shapes & Colors: More real world items of different shapes and colors
How shapes and colors fit in the real world. Shapes & Colors, Part 8
Curated Video
The Versatility of Cotton
Cotton is a versatile and widely-used natural fiber that is cultivated from the cotton plant. It is used to make fabric for clothing and textile products like towels and handkerchiefs. Cotton by-products, such as linters and cotton seed...