Half the Sky: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression with Educatio

Gabrielle Union, Olivia Wilde, Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof discuss solutions to the most pressing problems facing women: maternal mortality, gender-based violence, sex trafficking and forced prostitution. Women are not the problem, they are the solution. Education and economic empowerment are the ladder to a better life for women, their families and communities.

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Half the Sky: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression with Educatio

Recent Episodes

Keep Quiet and Forgive

The Inquisitor

The Librarians

Vivien's Wild Ride

Life After

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Clips & Previews

Half the Sky: Violence Against Women is a Global Epidemic

Half the Sky: Olivia Wilde on Empowering Women Economically

Half the Sky: America Ferrera on India's Sex Trade

Half the Sky: Eva Mendes on Bringing Girl Power to Sierra Le

Half the Sky: Gabrielle Union on the Challenges That Girls F

Half the Sky: The Impact of India's Caste System on Women

Half the Sky: A Kenyan Restauranteur Flourishes Through Micr

Half the Sky: One Girl's Long Road to School and Safety in S

Half the Sky: America Ferrera's Diary Cam Insights on India

Half the Sky: Sakena Yacoobi on Educating Women and Girls in

Half the Sky: Creating Hope within Africa's Largest Slum

Half the Sky: Prostitution is the Absence of Choice

Half the Sky: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression with Educatio

Specials

The Opioid Trilogy, Episode 3: Coming Home

The Opioid Trilogy, Episode 2: Do No Harm

The Grocery List Show | Latino Grocery Store in Brooklyn | Ep 5

Camp Widow

The Grocery List Show | Family-Run Italian Market in New Jersey | Ep 4

The Grocery List Show | A Little Caribbean Market in Brooklyn | Ep 3

The Grocery List Show | Halal Grocery in Brooklyn | Ep 2

The Grocery List Show | Seafood City in Chicago | Ep 1

Who Can Become American? | The History of White People in America, Ep 6

Ready For Your Headliner? | United States of Comedy, Ep 5

The Art of Clown | United States of Comedy, Ep 4

America’s Gay Christian Sweetheart | United States of Comedy, Ep 3

Be Too Much | United States of Comedy, Ep 2

The Making of a Griot | United States of Comedy, Ep 1

All God's Children | The History of White People in America, Episode 5

The Diary of Afong Moy | The History of White People in America, Episode 4

Wild Hogs and Saffron

When I Close My Eyes

After Angola | holding bodies: a justice anthology

D.A. Time | holding bodies: a justice anthology

First Disappearances | holding bodies: a justice anthology

1 Hour Cozy Yule Log | Independent Lens

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Back to the Motherland-ish | Spice Road, Episode 3

Southern Fried Tikka Masala | Spice Road, Episode 2

Tandoori Truck Stop | Spice Road, Episode 1

Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go

Maletero

Underground

The Command Center to Bring Women Home

Brother

Our League

Folk Frontera

When I'm Her

The Great World of Gregory Blackstock

Jose and Mr. Ramos: The Dreamer

Jose and Mr. Ramos

Sophie and Ben

Never Conquered

TOWER - Guns on Campus - Short Film

The Rise of SWAT

The Black Panthers: Ericka Huggins

The Black Panthers: Jamal Joseph

County Clerk Changes History

TV Schedules

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