The Peabody Awards recognize the most outstanding achievements in electronic media, including radio, television, cable, and the internet. These are this year’s award-winners aired on THIRTEEN and PBS, and you can watch them all, in full, online. See list and links.
In our over 45 years on-air, Thirteen’s thought-provoking programs have stoked debate (and sometimes fury), but they are always about ideas and free speech, and challenging viewers to consider new perspectives. Read more…
As part of our month-long focus on women’s history, Thirteen/WNET is airing programs that take a look at lives of extraordinary women, from the very famous to the unsung pioneers in their fields. Some can be viewed online as well.
The City Concealed visits Weeksville, a part of Bed-Stuy that, in the 1800s, was part a thriving community of free African Americans for decades. When the large apartment complexes came in and the neighborhood changed, only 3 houses from the era remained. Watch now.
The title for this 1975 video, containing an interview conducted by Studs Terkel, is “Texas Maverick”. Farenthold, a Texas lawyer and legislator, was the first woman to be seriously considered as a VP candidate, in 1972. Though she didn’t win, she’s been an outspoken critic of government on the local and national level for decades. See vintage video and read a recent interview.
Read about the woman who was instrumental in shaping women’s (and basic human) rights in postwar Japan–even as an outsider/expatriate, and at age 22.
We consider an ‘unsung heroine’ a woman whose work/life has been under-recognized. Unfortunately, that still means most women! But here are our picks for groundbreaking inventors, artists, scientists, and more, who go beyond the “first woman to…” role.
March is Women’s History Month–but we’d like to shine a light on women of immense accomplishment, fortitude and inspiration, though not an equal amount of recognition. From Bill Moyers, Maria Hinojosa, Judy Woodruff, Lidia Bastianich, Martin Savidge, Tom Stewart and Paula Zahn: their personal unsung heroines.
Now you can watch several full docs originally aired as part of Independent Lens, online! Topics range from Shaolin monks in America to the controversial issue of stem cell research — 10 docs from the 2003-2008 seasons have recently been made available: Watch all.
Though born into wealth, Mrs. Bolton was a pioneer in Nursing Advocacy, kept 14 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1940-68), and was the first woman Representative to the U.N. Read more about her life and work.
