Join California Humanities on June 19 for the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of REAL BOY, the coming-of-age story of Bennett Wallace, a transgender teen on a journey to find his voice—as a musician, a friend, a son, and a man. As he navigates the ups and downs of young …
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Short Documentary: American Baghdad, Filmmaker Interview
AMERICAN BAGHDAD, is a short documentary profiling Iraqi refugees trying to assimilate to American culture after being displaced from Iraq due to the war. El Cajon, a city in San Diego, has one of the highest concentrations of Iraqi refugees in America. A majority of these refugees are known as …
Read More »Can the Humanities Help Us Move the Needle on Social Change?
By Natalia Molina, author, Professor of History and Urban Studies at UC San Diego, and California Humanities Board Member What is best about the Humanities and the special contribution it can make to civic participation was on display on a recent panel on immigration at our California Humanities board meeting, held …
Read More »The Challenges Facing Journalism Today
As part of a national celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, California Humanities is convening a series of discussion forums throughout the state through the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative. The third in the series features a conversation on Journalism and Democracy in California at San Jose …
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