. ♪ announcer: major funding for "tell me more with kelly corrigan" is provided by the penner family foundationng with support from the gordon and llura gund foundation. i think the last era of america, uh--heh heh-- that we just went through has in some ways altered the course of this country's history. there was still this idea, this narrative that america's the greatest country in the world. i think that's a wrap, and now it becomes up to us-- not that iare about the narrative of the greatest country in the world, but do we actually want to live up to those myths, and right now--to use a sports analogy-- i think it's a jump ball. ♪

♪ >> announcer: major funding for "tell me more with kelly corrigan" is provided by the penner family foundation with support from the gordon and llura gund foundation. so you grew up in dallas, you're 1 of 4 kids. you had a dad who worked on the apollo? yes, on the early space missions, yeah. my dad talked about those apollo missions so much at home, but then my parents would put us in our jammies when there was an apollo launch, and we'd go over to another engineer's house, and we'd all sit there and watch that rocket take off, and i think what it really told me was that, you know, we can do anything we set our minds to. it was like "wow! the possibilities are just endless ♪

announcer: major funding for "tell me more with kelly corrigan" is provided by the penner family foundation with support from the gordon and llura gund foundation. in order to end the systemic racism that we have, income inequality, the homophobia, i think it all comes down to two things really-- ucation and civic engagement, and when you put that together, it kind of sounds like democracy. ♪ corrigan: people have been organizing for change for forever. movements for and against war, for and against prohibition,

ncicap.org] announcer: major funding for "tell me more with kelly corrigan" is provided by the penner family foundationng with support from the gordon and llura gund foundation. bianca valenti: the second i went under the water, i was like rag-dolled, flipping and turning and spinning, my board's ripped out of my hands. i opened my eyes. all i saw was dark, and then luckily at that second, my feet touched the sand, and i just barely, slowly swam to the surface, and i thought, "if there's another wave, i'm going to die." ♪