Grade levels: Adult

Discuss the current state of indigenous people in the U.S. Studio Guest: Joseph (Standing Bear) Schranz, an Ojibwa from the Midwest Soaring Foundation. Video Inserts: Pow Wow of the Ho Chunk Nation; Native American as well as Euro-American educators from Northern Arizona University; and Little Singer Community School (LSCS), a Charter School located on a Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

A profile of some of the many groups listed under the label of Latino(na’s) in the U.S. Studio Guest: Rey Flores, a community activist and columnist for Hoy Newspaper in Chicago. Video Inserts: Chuy Negrette, an ethno-historian from Chicago; Professor Carlos Munoz, Jr. at the University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, director of the Harvard Immigration Program; and Janet Castellanos, a Professor at the University of California at Riverside.

Studio Guest: Rey Flores, a community activist and columnist for Hoy Newspaper in Chicago and realtor/community activist Fred Medina. Video Inserts: The Ballet Folkloric filmed during a Mexican Independence Day celebration; a mini case study of Beardstown, a small river town in central Illinois with a rapidly growing Latino population; Janet Castellanos, a Professor at the University of California at Riverside, and a film clip from the movie Crash.

Examines the challenges facing this unique ethnic group and how its fate continues to evolve in the U.S. Studio Guest: Jesse Jackson Jr., Congressional Representative from the 2nd District of Illinois. Video Inserts: Birmingham Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham, Alabama; a film clip from Crash; Dr. Thomas Parham a Professor from the University of California at Irvine, and Dr. V.P. Franklin a Professor at the University of California at Riverside.

Studio Guest: Dr. Cathy Cohen, Director of the Black Youth Project and her graduate student Jamila Celestine-Michener from the University of Chicago. Video Inserts: Byron Hurt, Director of the film, Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes.

A discussion of some of the many cultures who fall under this label and live within the U.S. Studio Guest: Rey Flores, a community activist and columnist for Hoy Newspaper in Chicago. Video Inserts: Dr. Michael Omi, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky, Director of Diversity Issues at Antioch University New England along with Dr. Farah Ibrahim of Oregon State University, multicultural consultants, Asma Abdullah and Peter Shepherd; and the Korean American community in Chicago.

An introspective look at Middle-Eastern cultures in the U.S. as they appear in the media and are perceived by the American society. Studio Guest: Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Chicago. Video Inserts: Dr. Jack Shaheen’s film Reel Bad Arabs.

The fastest growing religion in the U.S. is Islam; it is also one of the most controversial as a result of 9/11. Studio Guest: Imam Kifah Mustapha (from a Mosque located in Bridgeview, IL) who is also the Associate Director of The Mosque Foundation and Dr. Aminah Beverly McCloud, a Professor of Islamic Studies at DePaul University. Video Inserts: Dr. Azizan Baharuddin from the Centre for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaysia, and a mini-case study on the Islamic community in Waukegan, Illinois.

This program features a segment on the Amish community in Indiana and a profile of Italians in America, looking at their struggles in the past and their dreams for the future. Studio Guest: historian and film maker Dominic Candeloro. Video Inserts: Mini-Case Study on the Amish in the U.S.; and film clips from the movie And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy.

A view of Americans with mixed ethnic/racial heritage. Studio Guest: Robin Tillmon, President of the Bi-racial Family Network (BFN) in the Chicago area and the child of an inter-racial marriage and Eric Glenn, the product of mixed-race parents. Video Inserts: Creole culture in New Orleans; and an “inter-racial” couple, Diane and Reggie Alsbrook, who live off the grid in New Mexico.