Not In Our Town: Class Actions Opening/Tease

Not In Our Town: Class Actions profiles students and community members who are creating change in the wake of racism, anti-Semitism, and the traumatic consequences of bullying. Narrated by Survivor winner Yul Kwon, the half-hour documentary will debut on PBS stations in 2012. Fifty years after James Meredith became the first black student at the segregated University of Mississippi, football fans resurface the chant, "The South will rise again." Student leaders confront the divisive practice, sparking a campus visit from the Ku Klux Klan. New solutions are found in Lancaster, a city east of Los Angeles, after teen suicides in nearby towns shake the town into action. A middle school counselor starts an anti-bullying program that inspires a citywide campaign. The college town of Bloomington, Ind., shocked after a Korean student was murdered by a white supremacist a decade ago, bands together again after anti-Semitic attacks on the eve of Hanukkah.z