By any measure this year’s Democratic convention bears the weight of history. Barack Obama is the first Black candidate to receive a major party nomination and his acceptance speech will coincide with the 45th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. It is also the third anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita next week. Actor, activist and producer Danny Glover joins us to discuss his work in New Orleans and the significance of this moment: what’s happened to the dream?

Then, the filmmakers of Trouble The Water discuss the film, and the prospect of hope in 21st Century America, even after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. On August 29, 2005, Kimberly Rivers Roberts turned her video camera on her family and neighbors as they prepared for and coped with Katrina in New Orleans. As the levees were breeched and floodwaters devastated her neighborhood in the city’s ninth ward, she captured the terrifying real life moments of her community. Days later, two New York City filmmakers traveled to New Orleans and crossed pathes with Kimberly and her husband, Scott Roberts. Incorporating Kimberly’s gripping footage, an extraordinary film Trouble the Water, was produced. It tells the story of what happened to the city’s poorest residents and the disgraceful negligence on the part of government throughout. Trouble the Water premieres at the Firehouse Theater in Harlem and the IFC Center in Manhattan tomorrow night and opens nationwide later this month.

We’ll also get a look at America’s Family Prison with our weekly GOT DOCS segment. In May 2006, the Department of Homeland Security opened the first immigration detention facility designed specifically to hold families: migrant men, women, children, and infants, none of whom have a criminal past. The T Don Hutto facility in central Texas is administered by the largest private so-called "corrections corporation" in the U.S. – the company is paid $7,000 per month per prisoner from public coffers. In April 2006, the United Nations Commission of the Human Rights of Migrants tried to investigate these allegations but was denied entry. Filmmakers Matthew Gossage and Lily Keber have been able to steer some attention to Hutto with this video, and they’re keeping on the story with their blog. In 2007, the ACLU won a lawsuit improving conditions for the detainees inside Hutto, but activists are still fighting to end family detention, at Hutto and at a second facility in Pennsylvannia. Sadly, the update is that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement is accepting bids for three new detention centers – on both coasts and on the southwestern border – to hold families fighting deportation cases. Get involved here.