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1st Annual Diversity Community Dinner Preview 11/11/2009

Host Wanda Hines, Director or the Social Eqity Investment Project (a program of the Burlington Legacy Project), along with community leaders Medihia Jusufagic, Jeanine Bunzigiye, and Sara Martinez de Osaba share insights into this December 2nd community event.

Cultural Diversity Series: Bhutanese in Vermont 10/14/2009

Madhu Neupane, Burlington School District Home School Liason, presents the Bhutanese historical and cultural background, their educational and other experiences here in Vermont. A presentation of the Cultural Diversity Series of the Diversity and Equity Office of the Burlington School district and Fletcher Free Library.

Burlington School Commissioners' Corner: Diversity in Burlington Schools 10/01/2009

Thomas Fleury, School Commissioner, Ward 7, Jeanne Collins, Superintendent, Dan Balon, Diversity/Equity Director and Mercedes Mack, Diversity/Equity VISTA talk about the diversity in Burlington schools.

Champions of Diversity and Equity Awards Ceremony 06/03/2009

The 1st annual Awards presented by the Burlington School District, Burlington Social Equity Investment Project and the City of Burlington. Champions of Diversity and Equity - A celebration and acknowledgement of those affirming the rich social and culturally diverse community we live in.

Burlington CEDO Show: Social Equity Investment Project 03/23/2009

Created within local government, the Social Equity Investment Project is a new social development resource created to help Burlington, Vermont address ethnic and culturally diverse issues which impact the quality of life for all communities. Joining Wanda Hines, Coordinator of the Project, to discuss this initiative are: Dan Balon, Burlington School district Diversity and Equity Director, and Vicky smith, Director of King Street Youth Center.

Young Writers Project 11/11/2008

Host Lauren-Glenn Davitian speaks with Sarah Waring, Program Manager of the Council on the Future of Vermont and Geoff Gevalt, Executive Director of the Young Writers Project on a collaborative effort to engage and hear from youth on Vermont's future.

Driving While Black: Do Police Pass the Test? 09/26/2008

Dr. Patrick Mason speaks on biased policing against racial and ethnic minorities. Dr. Mason is a Professor of Economics and Director, African American Studies Program at Florida State University. Sponsored by Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity, UVM, and Uncommon Alliance.

Artful Word: Race and Human Diversity 03/17/2008

Local producer/videographer James Gero provides a sampling of community events, interviewing sponsors, participants and local officials.

Burlington School Commissioners' Corner: Diversity 10/04/2007

Marrisa Caldwell, School Commissioner, Ward 3 Amy Mellencamp, Principal, Burlington High School Lashawn Sells, Diversity Director, Burlington School System Nimo Girreh, Parent Advocate/Homeschool Liason

Racism Interviews - Father Ray Provost, Winooski 05/02/1986

Father Ray Provost Discusses Racism in Winooski. There are four "racism interviews" (you can search under those words for them), the 1986 ones recorded for Deep Dish TV about racism in Winooski, the Dylan Nolfi interviews done in 1990 (Nolfi's were the only ones that aired.

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!