TELEDUCTION

United We Are Dreaming

Nearly 800,000 people have now been approved to live and work in the US under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by executive order by President Obama in 2012. The order provides protection from deportation and permission to work legally here for anyone brought to the US illegally as a minor. Applicants had to have been 31 before June 15, 2012 and could not have been convicted or, "pose a threat to national security or public safety." The documentary puts are faces and voices on American Dreamers in Delaware, as a representation of the plight of Dreamers throughout the US. In doing this, we hope to help dispel the misinformation and myth that is clouding an informed and meaningful discussion about who these young men and women are and the contributions they are making culturally and economically to this country.

Secrets from the Past

Sometimes history can be hiding in plain sight. This is what happened some 20 years ago when a group of kids went exploring in a marsh just outside of the C&D Canal in Delaware City, Delaware. The marsh was in the proximity of an area called Polktown where a thriving community of free Black people lived during the Civil War era and into the 20th century. Hidden among the reeds the children explored were some strange looking rocks--stones that turned out to be the grave markers of African American soldiers, United States Colored troops as they were called, who enlisted and fought for the Union Army. The sacred ground has since been restored as The African Union Church Cemetery.