PBS Celebrates Black History Month with New Program and Digital Campaign PBS Black Culture Connection Website Partners with Eunique Jones Gibson to Showcase the Making of the Because of Them, We Can (TM) Campaign In commemoration of Black History Month, PBS announced new shows and online content celebrating the African American experience past, present and future. Black History Month on PBS will provide programs that educate, inform and inspire viewers to learn more about the rich culture of our nation. The lineup begins on February 3 at 10:00 p.m. Visit pbs.org for a complete lineup. POV American Promise Monday, February 3, 2014, 10:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. ET American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, New York, turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through Manhattans Dalton School, one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Winner, U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award, 2013 Sundance Film Festival AMERICAN MASTERS Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth Friday, February 7, 2014, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET Most famous for her seminal novel The Color Purple, writer/activist Alice Walker celebrates her 70th birthday. Her dramatic life is told with poetry and lyricism, and includes interviews with Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover, Quincy Jones, Howard Zinn, Gloria Steinem, Sapphire, and Walker herself. INDEPENDENT LENS Spies of Mississippi Monday, February 10, 2014, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET View the story of a secret spy agency formed during the 1950s and 60s by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain white supremacy. Over a decade, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission employed a network of investigators and informants, including African Americans, to help infiltrate the NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). They were granted broad powers to investigate private citizens and organizations, keep secret files, make arrests and compel testimony. The program tracks the commissions hidden role in important chapters of the Civil Rights Movement, including the integration of the University of Mississippi, the trial of Medgar Evers and the KKK murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Find more information: PBS PressRoom (pressroom.pbs.org).
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:24:09 +0000
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