Education
Students carry Ute culture forward at Ute Mountain Ute school
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe has more than 2,000 enrolled members but fewer than 100 fluent Ute speakers remain, highlighting the importance of these classes.
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Free to Speak
What is free speech? Is it an outdated idea? What about hate speech? The three-part series Free To Speak underscores how free speech is necessary for human survival as it presents thought-provoking, ironic, and often heartbreaking stories. Host Nadine Strossen is joined by journalists, scholars, and activists to examine the power and controversy of free speech historically and today.
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The Speech We Hate
Season 1 Episode 103 | 56m 46s | CC
The Speech We Hate features a Kenyan filmmaker whose love story of two women garnered a nationwide ban. Viewers also meet a Turkish political artist who was censored for his provocative work in the U.S., a hip-hop historian who recalls the arrest of members of 2 Live Crew for obscenity, and a student who took a lawsuit over banned books in his school all the way to the Supreme Court.
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