Tag: PBS

  • Nation & World

    The gathering storm

    Experts assess the state of the nation amid a pandemic and a national reckoning with race during a talk sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and PBS.

    10 minutes
    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Nation & World

    Gaming the political arena

    Journalist Ken Shulman talks about the ways in which global sporting events are used to advance political agendas and how activists can leverage sports to draw attention and action to human-rights issues.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Untold war stories

    Women’s voices have long been absent from stories of war — and from the process of peacemaking. A group of women scholars and filmmakers gathered at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Oct. 4 to explore those untold stories in conjunction with the new PBS series “Women, War, and Peace.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness’

    PBS will air “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness,” a documentary that examines the towering influence of controversial anthropologist Melville Herskovits, on Feb. 2 at 10:30 p.m. as part of the series “Independent Lens.” Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal will host the program.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Examining the roots of family tree

    “The Human Family Tree,’’ airing tomorrow on National Geographic Channel, tells us when, where, and how humanity spread from Africa across the globe.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Gates’ scholarship, ‘African American Lives’ honored

    Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has recently been named the recipient of three awards in recognition of his scholarship and for the cultural impact of “African American Lives,” the PBS series created and produced by Gates, New York’s Channel 13, and Kunhardt Productions. Since first airing in February 2006, “African American…

    2 minutes