Filmmaker Byron Hurt is chronicling his family history in the upcoming NOVA premiere Lee and Liza’s Family Tree. In the exclusive clip below, Hurt and his family take on the challenges of finding out ...

Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt will be a featured artist at the Missouri History Museum starting tonight (7 p.m., Wed., Mar. 21) with the screening of “Hip-Hop: Beyond the Beats and Rhymes.” The ...

There is no easy way to tackle the topic of hazing in American culture, but award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt wants to shine a light on a widespread and enduring practice that often exists with ...

Byron Hurt and the poster for his documentary "Hazing." (Photo credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images; PBS) In 1894, the first anti-hazing law in the United States was enacted in New York after a ...

Byron Hurt explores Soul Food and its complicated connections to the Black community. Food evokes memory, family history and tradition. Soul food is closely tied to Black cultural identity.

Byron Hurt’s Hazing, the season opener for PBS’ Independent Lens, offers an evocative precursor to National Hazing Prevention Week, which begins September 19. Equal parts portraiture, confessional, ...

“There’s not a lot of sympathy for hazing victims in this country,” filmmaker Byron Hurt notes in “Hazing,” and he’s quite right: College students who willingly subject themselves to physical abuse ...

Byron Hurt has made indelible films about the traditions of African American culinary traditions (Soul Food Junkies) and masculinity and misogyny in rap music with his daring doc Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats ...

On this episode of Edge of Sports, activist and documentarian Byron Hurt joins the podcast to discuss the harms of hazing and how we can stop it. Dave Zirin Here's where to find podcasts from The ...

Byron Hurt is an award winning documentary filmmaker, a published writer, and an anti sexism activist. His most recent documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film ...

Sep. 11—While growing up in Bakersfield, Brent McClanahan II was always surrounded by his family's fraternity and sorority members. So when he enrolled at California State University, Bakersfield, it ...

In 1894, the first anti-hazing law in the United States was enacted in New York after a group of students at Cornell University filled a freshman banquet hall with chlorine gas, killing one staff ...