Diversity: Videos

This program explores the many types of diversity and the perils of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination
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Provides practical guidance on supporting culturally and linguistically diverse young children.
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Based on the true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States.
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The story of Christy Brown. Born with cerebral palsy, Brown learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb, his left foot.
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Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. They have two teen-aged children.
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Michael is a homeless African-American teenager who is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own.
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First-term college freshmen get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality.
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A transgendered youth starts living as a man, and assumes the name Brandon Teena. He moves to a tiny Nebraska town and begins making new friends under his new identity. All goes well until his new friends discover his secret. Based on a true story about hope, fear, and the courage it takes to be yourself.
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An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories as a leader in the field of animal husbandry and the humane handling of cattle.
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TEDTalk. The thesaurus might equate "disabled" with synonyms like "useless" and "mutilated," but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these associations, she hows how adversity -- in her case, being born without shinbones -- actually opens the door for human potential.

By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and ... different. "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by 80 animators)