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Henry Louis Gates Takes A New Journey Into Blackness With ‘Making Black America: Through The Grapevine’

The Harvard historian and PBS show host is bringing a new look at our past to find why we are who we are, and why that’s a good thing.
10/05/2022

Killer Mike Stirs Controversy With Herschel Walker Interview

The rapper has interviewed controversial Republican politicians before.
06/02/2022

Documentary Film ‘When Claude Got Shot’ Examines Gun Violence, Incarceration, Forgiveness And Redemption

Produced by Snoop Dogg and Brad Lichtenstein, the film premieres on PBS’s “Independent Lens” on May 9.
04/29/2022

Ben Affleck Apologizes for Asking to Conceal Ancestor's Slave-Owning Past

Emails reveal the megastar wanted his history censored.
04/22/2015

August Wilson Documentary The Ground on Which I Stand Premiering on PBS

The film chronicling Wilson's life and work airs at 9 p.m.
02/20/2015
Rose and Assad

Syria's Assad Denies Chemical Weapon Use

In rare interview, the Syrian dictator speaks with PBS host.
09/09/2013
Denzel Washington - We believe the iconic Denzel Washington may have gotten his great diction from attending the prestigious co-educational university, Harvard Westlake. One of the school's missions is to provide an education "that enables and empowers its diverse students." We think he's done a fine job of empowering us with his talent!  (Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Denzel Washington to Narrate PBS Doc on '63 March

The film is about the 1963 March on Washington.
08/08/2013
Henry Louis Gates, Many Rivers to Cross Premieres

Henry Louis Gates' PBS Documentary to Cover 500 Years of Black History

Many Rivers to Cross will premiere Oct. 22.
08/08/2013

Two Black Scientists Selected for National Technology Award

James Gates and George Carruthers will receive the award.
12/28/2012