The 90-minute film features the nation’s foremost Lincoln scholars recounting a great American drama: the two tumultuous months when the joy of peace was shattered by the heartache of Lincoln’s death. With dramatizations. Watch the full program online.
Rafael Pi Roman hosts a half-hour look at 2008’s major exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden chronicling Charles Darwin’s lifelong fascination with plants and flowers. It was called “Darwin’s Garden: a Evolutionary Adventure.”
Visit the black markets and protest movements of Zimbabwe in Focal Point’s “Underground Zimbabwe,” a set of shorts filmed by a native Zimbabwean journalist who has since had to flee the country for the safety of herself and her family.
Public TV programs like Soul!, Say Brother and Black Journal were only a few of the shows by, about, and for black America. Here’s a more comprehensive list of local, national, and award-winning black community television from the past forty years.
Rising sharply from the South African landscape, cliffs like spines of a dragon form the majestic Drakensberg Mountains. Tenacious elands undertake an annual migration toward the summit in search of greener pastures, and NATURE tracks their epic climb. Watch now.
It’s that time of year again–African-American History Month. Read about our ‘Broadcasting While Black’ web project, which covers the early years of black-produced public affairs and arts programs for television, from 1968-on. See all articles and videos in the project, or read more here.
News and in-depth analysis as Moyers talks to NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalist and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald. Watch now.
The city of Memphis, Tennessee is suing major national lenders and banks for deceptive and discriminatory lending practices in an effort to recoup the cost of the foreclosure mess. Other cities suing lenders for their role in the mortgage mess include Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Birmingham. Watch program.
In 1968, after decades of unfair representation in the media, a new generation of African-American producers, writers, and editors brought their views to programs like Black Journal, Soul!, Say Brother, and many others. Read about the history of black-produced TV programs here.
In this episode, Andrew Ross Sorkin talks to media mogul Barry Diller about layoffs and CEO compensation and to advertising guru Jerry Della Femina about how the ad business is faring in a downscale economy. Watch now.
