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Education is one of the most important elements to a child’s future. But how that child is educated is even more important. These three films bring a different perspective to how African American children from different socio-economic backgrounds share in the same struggles.

Mainline Monologues
Directed by Ellen Sall and Co- Produced by Crystal Blunt & Loraine Carter/Concerned Black Parents
2005, 40 minutes
This film features interviews with six generations of African American men and women who all went through the Lower Merion School District. They talk about how they were treated differently from the white students and told that they would never amount to anything let alone get a college degree. Each story is unique but resonant from one generation to the next.

Freedom School
Directed by Amitanshu Das and produced by the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education
2009, 26 minutes
This story profiles the Children's Defense Fund's Freedom School Summer Program in West Philadelphia. The documentary follows a team of young African American educators and college students toiling to instill a love of learning and self-esteem in middle school children growing up in one of Philadelphia's toughest neighborhoods. The film showcases a unique model for anyone interested in empowering children, teaching them to be civically engaged and producing in them a life-long connection to the simple joy of reading.

Trying Something New
Directed by Edward Basile
2006, 23 minutes
The Community Partnership School (CPS) provides children in lower income families with a more intensive reading structure than the average public school. This short documentary follows the school through its first few months of operation starting on the first day through the first parent day.

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