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A Court Allows Payment for Bone Marrow. Should People be Able to Sell Their Parts?

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Article by Alice Park from July 2012 describing a U.S. court decision allowing people to sell their bone marrow to people in need.

Do We Own Our Bodily Tissues?

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An opinion piece from Voices of San Diego, a member-based news organization, written by Margaret Ng Thow Hing and published in April 2012.

Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

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Article originally published in Science on July 6, 2012.

Tissue Banks Trigger Worry About Ownership Issues

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Article from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) published in September 2006.

Human Tissue For Sale: What are the Costs?

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Article from the Western Journal of Medicine published in November of 2000.

My Body, My Property

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Article from the Chicago Tribune published in June 2013.

Body of Research—Ownership and Use of Human Tissue

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Article from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published in October 2006.

The Souls of Black Folk

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HTML version of the book released by Project Gutenberg to be read online.

Atlanta Compromise Speech

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Speech given by Booker T. Washington at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in September 1895.

Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Woman's Rights

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Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Woman's Rights in 1848

Hope, Despair and Memory

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The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 11, 1986 by Elie Wiesel.

Inequality for All (2013)

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A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich-professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member-as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man whose lifelong goal remains protecting those who are unable to protect themselves.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:30
Inequality for All

The Hudsucker Proxy

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Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is a rube, a schmoe, a grade-A ding-dong - just what Hudsucker Industries wants in a president! With him at the top, the stock will hit bottom… and the fat cats on the board can take over. But Norville (Tim Robbins) has his own spiffy little plan. And if a snoopy reporter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) doesn’t put the kibosh on the Hudsucker flimflam and finagling big cheese Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman) doesn’t squash him, Norville’s idea will put a smile on the hips of all America!

Director: 
Joel Coen
Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:51
The Hudsucker Proxy

Roger & Me (1989)

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In 1989, Michael Moore, winner of 2002’s Best Documentary Feature Academy Award* and Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Bowling for Columbine, triumphantly burst upon the American moviemaking scene with Roger & Me, a hilarious, penetrating forerunner of the independent film movement.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:30
Roger & Me

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