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"My Journey Home" Explores the Unique Drama of Immigrant America

Washington, D.C. - America can be a fractured place - society splintered by skin color, religion, country of origin, native tongue, immigrant versus native, citizen versus non-citizen. One of our great preoccupations has been to mend these fissures while defining our uniquely American cultural identity. "My Journey Home" traverses the landscape of cultural identity, following new American voices - writer Faith Adiele, journalist Andrew Lam and brothers Armando and Carlos Peņa.

"My Journey Home," a two-hour documentary produced by WETA Washington, D.C., airs Wednesday, April 7 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide. (Check local listings.) The program follows Adiele, Lam and the Peņa brothers as they travel to their ancestral homelands. Their stories are deeply personal, revealing biographies at turns thought-provoking,
humorous and emotionally devastating. "My Journey Home" probes America's diversity through Adiele, Lam and the Peņas' personal histories of buried pasts, mixed heritages, missing fathers and broken dreams.

This documentary is the springboard for all of us to extend these important issues into schools and the community to address issues for ethnic minority students, and indeed, all of us, as we seek to understand a new America.

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Posted on March 15, 2004 in General News by Laurenleigh