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In this beautiful, heartrending, yet horrifying film, North Koreans tell their stories of imprisonment, sexual slavery, torture, murder, and escape to China or South Korea during the nearly 50-year regime of Kim Il Sung (1912–94). The interviews are illustrated through the interspersion of dance sequences, archi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 7 Up—Fifty years ago, 13 courageous, hand-picked activists, members of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) and trained in Gandhian techniques of peaceful resistance, embarked on two buses to challenge the Jim Crow conventions of the Southern states. The purpose of this action was to test compliance with federal law that declared that segregation on interstate travel as well as in public accommodations was illegal. The plan was a two-week trip beginning in Washington DC, and culminating in New Orleans. These students believed that their actions would result in justice and freedom. On day 11, on the Atlanta to Birmingham leg of the trip, one bus was bombed outside An...Log In or Sign Up to Read More