Workers Unite Film Festival 2021

Making the Impossible Possible: The Story of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College

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Making the Impossible Possible tells the story of the student led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960’s. The documentary is a mosaic of voices, film footage, photographs taken by student activists and music of Grammy award-winning musicians Arturo O’Farrill and Oscar Hernández. This important story highlights the powerful alliance Puerto Rican, African American and other progressive students and faculty forged that changed the face of higher education with the founding of one of the first Puerto Rican Studies departments in the nation.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    33 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Tami Gold, Pam Sporn