Frontline Season 39 · Episode 4

Growing Up Poor in America

8th September 2020 Season 39 Episode 4

The experience of childhood poverty against the backdrop of a pandemic and a national reckoning with racism. Set in Ohio, the film follows children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.

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Season 39 · Episode 5

Policing the Police 2020

George Floyd's killing triggered mass demonstrations nationwide calling for racial justice and police accountability in the United States. In the wake of those protests, New Yorker writer and historian Jelani Cobb returns to a troubled police department he first visited four years ago to examine whether reform can work, and how police departments can be held accountable.

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Will Lyman

Self - Narrator (voice)