Office PoliticsI've Always Wondered ...Election 2024Adventures in Housing

Loading...

0:00
0% played
Get a NEW artist-designed Marketplace sweatshirt when you donate $8/month ... for a limited time! Give Now

Econ Extra Credit with David Brancaccio

Economic lessons from a new movie every month. Sign up to watch and learn along with "Marketplace Morning Report" host David Brancaccio.
Click to Sign Up
Sign up here to join us for our Econ Extra Credit project:

From This Collection

"Summer of Soul"

Your responses to "Summer of Soul"

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Jul 29, 2021
It seems this month’s documentary selection, “Summer of Soul,” was — in short — a hit. Many of you wrote in to share your delight in the music and the message. “What a gem! I was an 18-year-old college freshman at the time and I can remember the afros, dashikis, bell bottoms and mini skirts, […]
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE
Econ Extra Credit with David Brancaccio

The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival didn’t “happen in a vacuum.”

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Jul 22, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #69
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE
Marketplace Morning Report

Unearthing the journey to "Summer of Soul"

Jul 22, 2021
LISTEN
Download
"Summer of Soul"

“Summer of Soul” producers on battling Black erasure to make the film

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Jul 22, 2021
Why the Harlem Cultural Festival, known as “Black Woodstock,” was forgotten for decades.
The 5th Dimension performs at the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, as seen in the new documentary "Summer of Soul."
Courtesy Searchlight Pictures
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE
EEC: Documentary Studies

David Brancaccio reacts to "Summer of Soul"

by David Brancaccio
Jul 15, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #68
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE
EEC: Documentary Studies

Previewing our July documentary film selection

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Jul 1, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #67
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE
EEC: Documentary Studies

Your responses to "The Prison in Twelve Landscapes"

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Jun 24, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #66
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE

For public good, not for profit.

Donate
EEC: Documentary Studies

How ending crime in America might devastate the economy

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Jun 17, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #65
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE
EEC: Documentary Studies

The hidden side of the prison labor economy

by David Brancaccio and Daniel Shin
Jun 17, 2021
Prison work programs can be selective and often train people for jobs they can't actually get on the outside, according to law professor Hadar Aviram.
Firefighting is just one of the jobs done by people who are incarcerated. The chances they will get hired as firefighters after they get out of prison are low.
David McNew/AFP via Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE
EEC: Documentary Studies

How America's economy is embroiled in its multibillion-dollar prison industry

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Jun 17, 2021
"The Prison in Twelve Landscapes" director Brett Story on the economic consequences of mass incarceration.
“The Prison in Twelve Landscapes” features Nahshon Thomas, a formerly incarcerated man who teaches chess in Washington Square Park. Filmmaker Brett Story said she wanted to address how prison affects everyday life, like the employment prospects of people with criminal records.
Courtesy of Oh Ratface Films
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE