Sylvia Komatsu

“Starting Over in America” is KERA’s 1986 documentary about refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia who relocated to the Dallas area beginning in 1975. It tells their stories of challenges as they try to reunite their scattered families and rebuild their lives in America.

Report on how the sacred burial grounds of enslaved and freed blacks in New York and Texas have been destroyed and almost forgotten. Today a new generation attempts to honor these dead and heal the wounds of history.