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Featured Collection:
Hispanic Heritage Month

How do we find home when borders—physical, political, and personal—constantly shift beneath our feet? This Hispanic Heritage Month collection captures resilience across landscapes of identity and belonging. In rural Mexico, mothers become environmental investigators when children die from contaminated water, while Arizona volunteers search tirelessly for migrants lost in the desert. Two friends transform their Texas-Mexico border town into a creative wonderland during their final summer, as displaced queer asylum seekers contemplate uncertain futures in America. A filmmaker documents how oil economies shape her West Texas hometown, while in Oakland, a formerly incarcerated gardener cultivates new roots after sixteen years. Through intimate portraits, we witness a wife caring for her chronically ill husband and a nonbinary trans teen navigating Guatemalan family expectations alongside dreams of self-determination. These stories reveal how Latino communities create home not as a place, but as
a practice of love, memory, and resistance that transcends borders and generations.
The complete Hispanic Heritage Month ([link removed]) collection is available from September 15 through October 15 on pov.org ([link removed]) and the PBS App.

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In a powerful story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin re-imagines mothering after being abandoned by her own. In a journey to seek out her elusive mother, Staceyann travels across Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne, and Jamaica while building a new sense of home with her own daughter.

A Mother Apart ([link removed]) premieres Monday, October 13, 2025 at 10PM on PBS (check local listings ([link removed]) ) and will be available to stream at pbs.org/pov and on the PBS App ([link removed]) . Co-presented with Black Public Media (BPM ([link removed]) ).
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Two best friends transform their Texas-Mexico border town into a creative wonderland during their final summer together. POV’s HUMMINGBIRDS ([link removed]) is a tender ode to friendship, dreams, and resistance.

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Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass ([link removed]) , these Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.

Fire Through Dry Grass ([link removed]) is be available to stream now until November 30 on POV on pbs.org ([link removed]) , and the PBS App ([link removed]) .

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A Ghanaian MIT alum follows four African students at his alma mater as they strive to become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Over an intimate, nearly decade-long journey, all must decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves. Co-produced with ITVS and co-presented with Black Public Media and Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative from The WNET Group.

Brief Tender Light ([link removed] ) is available to stream now on POV now until November 30 on pbs.org ([link removed]) , and the PBS App. ([link removed])

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Faith. Identity. Resistance.

POV’s An Act of Worship weaves the stories of Muslim Americans across generations, capturing resilience in the face of fear, love in the face of hate, and the power of community.

An Act of Worship ([link removed]) is available to stream now until October 30 on pbs.org ([link removed]) , and the PBS App. ([link removed])

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