Examines the story of Rita, a Rarámuri woman who traveled from Mexico to Kansas and was involuntarily held in a psychiatric institution for 12 years because no one recognized that she was speaking her native language.
Follows 11-year-old Aisha in Vancouver as she fights against the colonial teachings at her school and begins to explore how she can incorporate Kwakwaka'wakw knowledge traditions into her education with the help of her mother, activist Gunargie O'Sullivan, who survived residential school.
Highlights the data scientists, mathematicians, and activists documenting and working to confront bias in artificial intelligence systems with a focus on MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini, who first drew attention to the ways people of color and women are misclassified by facial recognition software and has advocated for legislation to address discrimination in these technologies.
Focuses on Soummer Crawford, Niaja Rutledge, and Geraldine Smith-Bey, who are working to make home ownership fair and affordable for African American women and other people of color in Detroit.
Follows Lucy Molina as she runs for city council in Colorado after adminstrators fail to act on the pollution that has harmed her children and her Latinx community.
Follows Sibil Fox Richardson through her home movies and documentary footage over a decade as she raises six children and tries to get her husband released from his 60-year prison sentence.
Follows Jabulile Ndaba for several years at Kopanang Women's Center—where women train to thrive in post-apartheid South Africa—and in her personal life.
Follows activist Tamara Lanier as she sues Harvard University to obtain daguerreotypes of Renty, her enslaved great-great-great grandfather, that were commissioned in 1850 to support racist scholarship.
Examines the treatment of black girls in the U.S. education system and suggests ways that educators and administrators can address gender and racial bias, the school-to-prison pipeline, and black girls' needs.
