Trailer | Free For All: The Public Library
Preview: Season 26 Episode 16 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The story of how public libraries came to be free and open for all Americans—and remain so.
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen. From pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures. Free for All shows how libraries have always been a sanctuary for generations of Americans.
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Trailer | Free For All: The Public Library
Preview: Season 26 Episode 16 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen. From pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures. Free for All shows how libraries have always been a sanctuary for generations of Americans.
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A Conversation with Rashaad Newsome
Our interview with interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, co-director and protagonist of Assembly and creator of Being the Digital Griot.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- You work for a government funded information organization?
- Yes, sir.
- What kind of information do you give out?
- Whatever they ask for.
- The community messed up.
They missed their opportunity to save something incredibly important.
- Having that library to really pull us together into the community has been so helpful.
- We're a place where people come together.
And we need more of that in this country, not less of it.
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