#HereIsMyAmerica revisited
Digital Premiere: November 11, 2016
Bayeté Ross Smith, one of POV's mediamakers working on a collaboration with The New York Times' Race/Related team, launched a project to collect images of a diverse America. Hundreds of people contributed vibrant photos and stories about their lives, and a selection of those have now been published at The Times.
Exit Poll Oversimplification
Digital Premiere: November 15, 2016
The 2016 Presidential Election has often felt like one enormous swarm of poll numbers, vote forecasts and nonstop statistical analysis. All this number crunching led POV Mediamaker Saleem Reshamwala and The New York Times' Giovanni Russonello to wonder what might be missed when we try to describe entire groups as being uniformly for or against a presidential candidate.
Confronting Racist Objects: A Painful Past Still Present
Digital Premiere: December 9, 2016
Racist objects remain pervasive in America today - so how can we use them to face our past? POV embedded mediamaker Logan Jaffe, working in collaboration with The New York Times' Race/Related team, received hundreds of stories from everyday Americans about reconciling, reclaiming and reinterpreting racist objects.
Who, Me? Biased?
Digital Premiere: December 17, 2016
Our subconscious brain makes all sort of quick - and not always fair - decisions about everything, including race. Saleem Reshamwala, one of POV's mediamakers embedded at The New York Times, looks at research into implicit bias and tangible ways we can improve in a video series.
#AwkwardRaceQuestions
Digital Premiere: December 19, 2016
For the past few months, three POV mediamakers have been embedded at The New York Times working on projects about race and ethnicity. Along the way, they asked each other a bunch of awkward questions about race and answered those questions on Instagram. Dive into the entire conversation.
Hyphen-Nation
Digital Premiere: February 16, 2017
The filmmaker and artist Bayeté Ross Smith asked nine different Americans of varied backgrounds questions about when they have felt most and least American. You can see their answers in Hyphen-Nation, a video, art and interactive project - and you can also participate.