On Thursday, February 19 at 9pm, Great Performances: Bruce Springsteen: The Seeger Sessions Live airs on THIRTEEN. Share your favorite Bruce song with your fellow fans!

This episode of “Black Journal,” one of the earliest black-produced newsmagazines on television, features a profile of L.A. grassroots empowerment organization Operation Bootstrap; a segment on the challenges faced by elected black public officials; and the words and music of singer Nina Simone. Watch now.

This week Andrew Sorkin talks with CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer and author Jeff Madrick on the bank bailout plan, Carol Kellermann, president of Citizens Budget Commission on the city budget, and Dylan Lauren, owner of Dylan’s Candy Bar, to learn if candy sells in a sour economy.

President Obama praised the $789 billion economic stimulus package that is close to having congressional approval. What do you think? Take this week’s poll.

Historian Henry Louis Gates’ quest to piece together Lincoln’s complex life takes him from Illinois to Gettysburg to D.C., and face-to-face with people who live with Lincoln every day – relic hunters, re-enactors, and others. You can watch the full documentary here.

Darwin is famed for his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but many people do not know that he was originally a botanist. Is Darwinism relevant today? And how do his theories match up with contemporary science? Find out by watching this edition of Thirteen Forum.

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.