War. Poverty. Politics. Economic and educational opportunities. These are some of the reasons people from around the world have come to central Illinois as asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants. Hear their stories of overcoming and persevering in Immigrants' Journeys: Challenges and Opportunities in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois a new documentary by Uni High.
This project focuses on how affirmative action became part of decision-making in higher education admissions, both at the University of Illinois and more generally in the U.S.
Rebuilding Foundations follows students at University Laboratory High School to Clarksdale, Mississippi, and other Delta communities to see how Habitat for Humanity and other organizations are bringing opportunity and renewed purpose to people's lives.
Plowing Ahead: Portraits of Farming in east central Illinois explains historical trends and current farming practices and sheds light on the lives of farmers through stories of perseverance, hard work, and ingenuity.
The Right to Marry Project's goal is to explore the right to marry in contemporary American society. This project examines changes in laws, ideas, attitudes and practices regarding interracial, intercultural and same-sex marriage from the perspectives of individuals, couples, and families in east central Illinois from the 20th century to the present. We also seek to understand the experiences of people in non-traditional marriages, and how such experiences have evolved as laws and perspectives, in our local community and in the broader nation, have changed over time.
The intellectual disabilities project focuses on the treatment of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities over the past 50 years.
Insights into the experiences of service members and changes in the military from the mid-20th century to the present.
A commissioned project by the City of Champaign, IL for its 150th anniversary celebration.
A look at counterculture movements in Champaign-Urbana from the 1950s to 2011
A radio documentary about Tim Nugent and his involvement in changing attitudes about disabled people and helping them to be treated as equal members of society.