Trailer | Silent Beauty
Preview: Season 24 Episode 15 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A woman’s journey to heal from childhood sexual abuse and confront generational trauma.
In this autobiographical exploration of survivorship, New Orleans journalist and filmmaker Jasmín Mara López unabashedly shares her process of healing from childhood sexual abuse. After Jasmin discloses to her family she'd been abused by her grandfather, she liberates others to come forward in a story of confronting a culture of silence over generational trauma.
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Trailer | Silent Beauty
Preview: Season 24 Episode 15 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
In this autobiographical exploration of survivorship, New Orleans journalist and filmmaker Jasmín Mara López unabashedly shares her process of healing from childhood sexual abuse. After Jasmin discloses to her family she'd been abused by her grandfather, she liberates others to come forward in a story of confronting a culture of silence over generational trauma.
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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 sponsorshipMy parents divorced when I was five.
My family moved in with my mother's parents.
My grandparents' house felt like a safe place, but then it wasn't.
-You never think it's going to happen in your own home.
- He claimed to be a man of God.
- He built power to manipulate his family into silence.
This silence ended with me.
I knew I had to say something so that my niece would not be abused.
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