Mark Ruffalo and Murray talk about the word "Empathy".
Speaking at the December 4, 2006 gala for K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers, Barack Obama describes how Americans must overcome the country's deficit in empathy to address the needs of populations at risk in our society.
Catherine Sullivan's anxiety-inducing films and live performances reveal the degree to which everyday gestures and emotional states are scripted and performed, probing the border between innate and learned behavior. Sullivan's appropriation of classic Hollywood filming styles, period costumes, and contemporary spaces such as corporate offices draws the viewer's attention away from traditional narratives and towards an examination of performance itself.
This short version of the feature (distributed by Tribeca Film) encapsulates the film and some of what happened to a man who courageously and fearlessly spoke his heart and mind at that tumultuous time in American history.
In 1965, NBC News director, Frank De Felitta, met an African-American waiter named Booker Wright and asked him to be filmed reciting the menu from the 'whites only' restaurant that Booker worked at in Greenwood, Mississippi. What Mr. De Felitta captured, surprised the nation when broadcast in 1966. Forty-five years later, Frank's son, filmmaker Raymond De Felitta, and along with Ogilvy & Mather's eyepatch productions producer David Zellerford, revisit an era of Civil Rights through the lens of cinematographer Joe Victorine, and discover with Booker's granddaughter, the impact Booker Wright's TV appearance had on himself and his family.
DemocracyNow.org - In 1965, Booker Wright, an African-American waiter in Greenwood, Mississippi, dared to be interviewed by NBC about racism in America, a decision that forever changed his and his family's lives. He would later be beaten by police, and ultimately be murdered. Wright's story is told in the new documentary film, "Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story," a collaboration between our two guests: co-producer, Yvette Johnson, Wright's grand-daughter; and director Raymond DeFelitta, whose father, Frank DeFelitta, originally filmed the interview with Wright and later said he regretted it.
ABC News Hidden camera experiments Racism in America. An event is staged where a Muslim woman is refused service in a bakery. See other customers reactions.
What is the value of gender diversity in organizations, politics and society? To learn about the business case for gender equality, watch the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School's new film, Gender Equality: The Smart Thing To Do. Discover what the evidence tells us from leaders in academia, business, development and politics.
Video from the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School.
January 2011
We'll talk to Mona Eltahawy about women's rights and misogyny in the Arab world.
We follow the lives of three small town high school buddies; "Gil Ames" who is rich and happy; "Dave Benton" who is poor and doomed; and "Ted Eastwood," who is middle class and doomed.
Matt Allwright and Alex Jones present the launch of the Great British Class Survey on the One Show - BBC One, 25 January 2011.
The fourth video for Unit 2 of Introduction to Sociology discusses some of the key differences between the four social classes: upper class, middle class, working class, and lower class.
