Meet a Hawaiʻi-born country music star, a hatter in Kāneʻohe and the family of Teshima Restaurant.

Two community organizers teach teens across the country how to build power from the bottom up.

A subsistence fisherman and a coal miner honor their heritages while moving a people forward.

In this episode of Home is Here, we head to Makawao on Maui to meet Mitzi Toro, better known as the “The Maui Cookie Lady”. Then we “go long” to Mānoa in Honolulu to catch up with Timmy Chang as he entered his first season as the new Football Head Coach of the University of Hawaiʻi. Following that, we head to Kāneʻohe in Windward Oʻahu to see the largest Native Hawaiian nursery in the world, Hui Kū Maoli Ola.

A musical drama film that takes you on a journey of untold stories of sacrifice, love, and unbreakable bonds of the first Korean immigrants in Hawaiʻi. 

Enjoy a musical treat with a military band, a college choir and performers from South Pacific.

Jazz funerals and a musician’s journey reflect resilience in New Orleans.

When Wilmington filmmaker Benjamin Wagner began to recognize the deep impact of trauma and chronic stress in his own life and in the world around him, he returned to the wisdom of Fred Rogers, the subject of his 2012 PBS documentary Mister Rogers & Me, and set out to ‘look for the helpers’ healing our anxious and uncertain communities.

A pastor bikes from the U.S. to the Mexico border to examine immigration, fear and belonging.

Building on a simple rule of “You Can’t Say You Can’t Play”, Oklahoma teacher Miss Varnell and her students work together to shape their kindergarten classroom into a place where each child feels connected and valued. We meet 5-year-old Justin who is suspended and finds himself at a new school under the watchful eye of Miss Varnell. The experience of kindness and acceptance is transformative.