Student Video

Below is a collection of all of our online video clips featuring student speeches, classroom footage and student work, with the most recent clips appearing first. Watch this space for more as we continue to grow our extensive library online.

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The Makings of a Leader

In the student-produced video The Makings of a Leader, two high school students explore what it means to be a leader through an interview with civil rights activist and professor James Breeden.
2 weeks 5 days ago
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The Struggle for a Good Education

The Struggle for a Good Education is a student-produced video that highlights issues in education in the greater Boston area during the civil rights movement through an interview with Jean McGuire, th
2 weeks 5 days ago
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Our Destiny

Our Destiny is a student-produced video that explores historical and contemporary issues of race in Boston through an interview with political activist, author, and professor Mel King.
2 weeks 5 days ago
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For Roxbury

For Roxbury is a student-produced video that highlights Sarah-Ann Shaw, the first African American female reporter for WBZ-TV in Boston, who fought for fair representation in the media.
2 weeks 5 days ago
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Student Ibtesam A. Speaks at the 2008 New England Benefit Dinner

Student Ibtesam A., a native of Pakistan, spoke at the 24th Annual New England Dinner about the major impact that Facing History has had on his outlook and way of thinking.
3 weeks 2 days ago
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Samantha Power speaks with Luis, a Facing History Student

Author and Harvard professor Samantha Power spoke with Facing History students at the March 2008 Los Angeles Benefit.
5 weeks 4 days ago
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Samantha Power speaks with Dora, a Facing History Student

Author and Harvard professor Samantha Power spoke with Facing History students at the March 2008 Los Angeles Benefit.
5 weeks 4 days ago
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Matt Damon Recalls His Experience as a Facing History and Ourselves Student

Matt Damon recalls when a Holocaust survivor spoke to his Facing History and Ourselves class when he was in middle school.
7 weeks 2 days ago
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Student Dahana L. Speaks at the 2004 New York Benefit Dinner

Dahana, a student originally from Haiti, speaks at the 2004 Facing History and Ourselves New York Benefit Dinner about her experience living in two cultures.
7 weeks 2 days ago
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Perception: Jonathan L reads his poem

Last spring Jonathan wrote a poem called "Perception" about how prejudice influences our decisions about helping others.

7 weeks 4 days ago