WORLD Channel

News and Public Affairs Series

Experience the personal stories behind the headlines. Devoted to telling stories that humanize complex issues, WORLD shares the best of public media in news, documentaries, and informational programming that helps us understand conflicts, movements and cultures. WORLD's focus is on its original content, offering a national platform to makers examining issues too often ignored by mainstream media.

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YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Lemon Andersen

3m 30s

Andrew "Lemon" Andersen is a poet raised in Brooklyn. He watched his stepfather, father and mother die from heroin abuse and AIDS complications, leaving him and his brother to grow up alone. With talent, encouragement from friends and mentors in the Hip Hop community, Andersen rose to critical acclaim. He has appeared in Def Poetry Jam, the PBS documentary Lemon and one-man show County of Kings.

YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Malik Yoba

4m 5s

Born and raised in the Bronx, Malik Yoba is no stranger to life on the stage; his exposure to theater is the driving force behind his pursuit of acting. Yoba, winner of three NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for New York Undercover, is the author of autobiography Yoba: Lessons From the Street and Other Places. He's also the founder of Malik Yoba National Theatre Company.

YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Maria Hinojosa

3m 47s

Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning Maria Hinojosa is a journalist, who began as a radio host at Barnard College. Rising through the media ranks for her work reporting on immigration and Latino issues at CBS, CNN, and NPR, she's been named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics. The founder of The Futuro Media Group was also the first Latina to anchor a Frontline report (Lost in Detention).

YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Michael Eric Dyson

3m 57s

Born into a working-class family outside of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson became an ordained Baptist minister, and then obtained his masters and PHD degrees in religion from Princeton University. He is now a professor of sociology at Georgetown University. Called inspiring and influential by Essence and Ebony, Dyson is an author of 16 books focused on issues within the African American community.

YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Michelle Rhee

3m 22s

After being inspired by a PBS program, Michelle Rhee joined Teach for America and then founded The New Teacher Project. Appointed Chancellor of Washington D.C. Public Schools from 2007 to 2010, Rhee was met with criticism due to her aggressive style of public school reform. Currently, founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, an organization dedicated to urban school reform, has written the book, Radical.

YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Roland Martin

3m 57s

Climbing through the print media ranks, Roland Martin became the executive editor of the Chicago Defender in the '90s. Known as an authority on race, politics, religion, Martin has received awards for excellence in journalism and is an NAACP Image Award recipient. The host of news program Washington Watch also pens a nationally syndicated column and is a highly sought political and social analyst.

YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Susan Taylor

4m 8s

Susan Taylor, born and raised in Harlem, began her career as a freelance fashion and beauty expert for Essence, the year the magazine was founded in 1970. She rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief and then publications director. Named "the most influential black woman in journalism" by American Libraries in 1994, Taylor is the founder and CEO of The National CARES Mentoring Movement.

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YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Soledad O'Brien

4m 16s

Harvard University graduate Soledad O'Brien was born to an Irish-Australian father and an Afro-Cuban mother. O'Brien began as a TV writer and producer, and later became an anchor and co-host of news programs for MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News. In 2003, she was tapped to co-anchor CNN’s American Mornings and then Starting Point. O'Brien left CNN in 2013 to find Starfish Media Group, a production company.

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