For all you Downtonians out there who are lamenting the long wait until Season 3 of Downton Abbey gets to PBS, I say don’t fret. If the autumn speeds by as quickly as the summer has, January, and the Crawleys, …

As the temperatures in the Baked Apple near 100 degrees and my air conditioner is broken, I ponder how the residents of Downton Abbey might have handled this heat. They didn’t have air conditioners. (Imagine what the Dowager would have …

We have all watched those sumptuous dinner scenes in Downton Abbey, but how many of you have wondered what it would be like to step through the looking glass and join them at the dinner table? And which character specifically …

How are you Downtonians enjoying the rerun of Season Two of Downton Abbey? It’s a great way to start the season, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter that I’ve already seen it and I know what’s going to happen. I still …

It’s been a couple of months since Matthew finally popped the question to Lady Mary and the television screen, and our world as we knew it, went dark – so I thought it was time to check back in with all you Downtonians out …

How Say Brother, the first Black public affairs television program in Boston began, and how it ended.

The Community Advisory Boards of Thirteen/WNET New York and WLIW21 inducted 11 community organizations into its COMMUNITY HALL OF FAME in a July 9, 2008 ceremony at the Thirteen/WNET studio in Manhattan. The stations’ Community Advisory Boards have instituted the …

Black public affairs television began in the late sixties as African-Americans took control of the streets — and the airwaves. After decades of unfair representation in the media, a new generation of African-American producers, writers, and editors brought their news …

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 …

Watch Charles Hobson Interview (7:45) Forty years ago, the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn was one of the largest and most dynamic African-American communities in the country – 400,000 people made their home within its three square miles. But Bed-Stuy became …