the world. >> when i get back home, i'm gonna be totally changed. >> real talk, we go! [ambient music] - [announcer]: major funding for reel south was provided by: etv endowment, the national endowment for the artsan media,

foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, additional funding for america reframed provided by: open society foundations, acton family giving, park foundation, the national endowment for the artsd the reva and david logan foundation. the national endowment for t♪♪ arts, narrator: what does giving sound like when you sing for the poor, the lonely, the forgotten? this vocal ensemble known as rsvp uses their extraordinary talent to give back to sacramento. their music is the sound of giving. woman: oh my goodness. there are no words. woman: outstanding. we're just overwhelmed. woman: i cried. as always. julie adams: i always knew from the time i was 18 years old that if there was a purpose to my life it was about reconciliation. about building bridges between people rather than tearinpeople apart. i toyed with reconciliation singers and voices of peace reconciliation singers, voices of peace and realized if you shortened it it became "rsvp" which asks for a response. jennifer reason: "rsvp is all about bringing people together through the arts and giving back to the community, so we sing together to raise money for local charities, basically. jennifer: this particular charity is

. - [announcer]: major funding for reel south was provided by: etv endowment, the national endowment for the arts, center for asian-american media, south arts, and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. additional funding for "the passing on" was provided by: and others. a complete list is available from pbs. [birds chirping] - john and tony is on their service, right? - yeah. - ok. well, you held your color al good. that's good. seriously. you're looking good. that's good, that's good. yeah, when i saw clayton over the holidays, and him, but that's the way it is sometimes. we had a lot of good times together, man. we really did, so i have to take care of him. - lewis funeral home. may i help you? - i want to also make some decisions. - ok, yeah. right now i just have to... - when i was a kid, i would put on my bow tie, and my tricycle was my hearse. whatever i could find, you know, rodents, ants, i was always busy on saturday. i had more funerals than anybody in town. i've probably embalmed close to 10,000 people in my whole career, and t

the world. >> when i get back home, i'm gonna be totally changed. >> real talk, we go! [ambient music] - [announcer]: major funding for reel south was provided by: etv endowment, the national endowment for the arts, center for asian-american media, south arts, and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. additional funding for "that's wild" was provided by: and others. a complete list is available from pbs. >> no, don't leave me. >> look at that elk. >> he was really close. >> look at the elk. look at the elk. >> shh, shh, shh. >> yo, that's crazy. [music playing] bill: do you want to get out and look at him? >> yeah. [music playing] >> that's crazy. ahmani: i'm finna walk with them. i'm a elk, too. [music playing] nicholas: [gasp] brother, mountains! >> you never seen something so breathtaking in your life. nicholas: bro, look! do you see the blue rays right there? >> yeah. nicholas: it looks like god coming up. [music playing] [background conversations] bill: right now, we're just getting out of the bus. clifford: wilderness works, when i first heard of it. i thought it was a program where we just go like a, you know, like a boy out-type

the marsha toraw their ns. yoasked for e fact - [announcer]: major funding for reel south was provided by: etv endowment, the national endowment for the arts, center for asian-american media, south arts, and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. additional funding for "you asked for the facts" was provided by: [film reel] [crowd chatter] robert f. kennedy: you're going to go with them here. [crowd chatter] speaker 2: thanks. i appreciate it. speaker 3: could you give an autograph? speaker 4: senator, what do you feel about the reception you got from these students down here? robert f. kennedy: it's very nice. speaker 4: the students are most happy to have you here. speaker 5: why don't you try us at football? robert f. kennedy: i think you're too good for us down here. gerald blessey: he was speaking primarily to law students, although the rest of the student body was there, that advancing the law and adherence to law is what makes us unique in the world. he was appealing to the needs of the day. robert f. kennedy: the american tradition of giving free voice to conflicting opinions

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[ambient mus] - [announcer]: major funding for reel south was provided by: etv endowment, the national endowment for the artser for asian-american media, south arts, and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. [applause] montae: as most of know, we are the rap squad, coming from chs. thank you, thank you. and we are a group of many, many talents. we do poetic, from poetic to music. th is the singing that i wrote. it was really my feelings on my environment, and how i'm growing up. and i'm forced to stay in this environment, but i want better for you, you know what i'm saying? everybody wants better for themselves and family, anyone around. and this is my story. [music playing] (singing) ♪ so lately i've been spending time thinking ♪ ♪ in this life will i make it? ♪ don't nobody know a thing about me. ♪ ♪ maybe i should spend praying, god knows i'm forsaken, ♪ ♪ i don't want to be a part of the streets. ♪ ♪ so lately i've been spending time thinking in this life ♪ ♪ will i make it? ♪ don't nobody know a thing about me. ♪ ♪ maybe i should spend time pray

the world. >> when i get back home, i'm gonna be totally changed. >> real talk, we go! [ambient music] - [announcer]: major funding for reel south was provided by: etv endowment, the national endowment for the arts

foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, additional funding for america reframed provided by: open society foundations, acton family giving, park foundation, the national endowment for the artse reva and david logan foundation. ♪ ♪ i grew up in roslindale on a dead-end street called delford. i was born in 1985, so i existed in roslindale probably about the first 12 years of my life, and i would say it was a bit of a utopia. a lot of people think of america as a melting pot inhis time period. no, my street was a tossed salad. we had a little t of everybody, and everyone brought their own flavor, their own style. i learned about convergent and divergent boundaries from people who escaped these volcanic islands that erupted, from montserrat. i learned about puerto rican culture and that puerto ricans, me of them were black. i was, like, "oh, my god." this was just all these learning experiences. i was raised by cambodians. i had a little bit of everything in roslindale, and it was perfect until a day in 1996, when boston cided to drown a whole bunch of poor immigrants in roslindale. on this paicular day in 1996-- it wasn't raining, it was dzzlingall right? so doing what i would

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[mus] artbound was made possible in py the los angeles county arts com, the department of cultural affas boing, the california endowment, the national endowment fornd the library foundation of l.