Race & Ethnicity
POV
It is one man's obsessive pursuit of justice and dignity that led Jasmine Dellal into the Gypsies' hidden thousand-year-old culture. Charming and outspoken, Spokane resident Jimmy Marks defies widely held stereotypes-and his own people's code of secrecy-to unlock a Romani world in America and tell a story which is at once humorous and poignant and speaks of the community's continuing persecution. Continue
To The Contrary
For the first time in U.S. history, white newborns are outnumbered by babies of color; the U.S. Army recently made history by officially opening jobs in combat battalions to women, but direct ground combat roles are still exclusive to men; To The Contrary travels to China to explore the role the U.S. Foreign Service plays in diplomacy overseas. Continue
Independent Lens
Our ancestors were nomads, but today, out of 6.8 billion people, only 30 million lead migratory lives. Summer Pasture (airing May 10 on Independent Lens on PBS) spotlights a nomadic family in the grasslands of Dzachukha in eastern Tibet. Many nomadic societies around the world are facing threats to their way of life, including forced relocation and climate change. Continue
Finding Your Roots
The ancestral pasts of author and television personality Martha Stewart, comedian and actress Margaret Cho, and neurosurgeon and CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta. Continue
POV
Thomas and Tamara are track stars at their rural New Mexico high school. Like many teenagers, they are torn between the lure of brighter futures elsewhere and the ties that bind them to home. For these teens, however, home is an impoverished town on the Navajo reservation, and leaving means separating from family, tradition and the land that has been theirs for generations. Continue
Finding Your Roots
Comedian and actress Margaret Cho talks about her experience living as a young adult in San Francisco's Castro District during the late 1970s. Continue
Finding Your Roots
The ancestral pasts of actor Samuel L. Jackson, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Brown University President Ruth Simmons. Continue
ART:21
Glenn Ligon’s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources—literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs—to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society. Ligon threads his own image and autobiography into symbols that speak to collective experiences. Continue
Finding Your Roots
Actor Samuel L. Jackson discusses his experience growing up in segregated Chattanooga in the mid-20th century. Continue
Finding Your Roots
Forty-four years after his father arrived in Houston as one of a handful of Muslims, Yasir Quadhi returned to the city lead a congregation of 30,000 in prayer. Continue
Washington Week
Christine Mastin, an immigration attorney whose Spanish-speaking grandmother emigrated from Chile to the United States, realizes that most of the Hispanics she knows are surprised she is a Republican. Barack Obama won two-thirds of the Latino vote in 2008, and no Republican has come close to winning a majority in 40 years. But she is working Colorado for Mitt Romney. Continue
POV
There are over one million Gypsies living in America today, and most people don’t know anything about them. It is one man’s obsessive pursuit of justice and dignity that led filmmaker Jasmine Dellal into their hidden thousand-year-old culture. Charming and outspoken, Spokane resident Jimmy Marks defies widely held stereotypes–and his own people’s code of secrecy–to unlock a Romani world in America Continue
Finding Your Roots
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. talks with friend Margarett Cooper about her remarkable ancestry, and learns about her great, great, great grandmother, a female slave who sued her master for her own freedom. Continue
PBS Presents
Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month this May and every day with a PBS video collection that explores this culture's diversity. Continue
Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots uncovers scrolls that have recorded 8 generations of Sanjay Gupta's father's line. Continue
Independent Lens
The intimate, pastoral, and lyrical film "Circo" tells the story of a circus family desperately trying to carry on a centuries-old tradition against difficult odds. Continue
ART:21
In this episode, artists play with historical events, explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic ‘truth’, and create narratives based on personal experiences. Featuring artists Glenn Ligon, Mary Reid Kelley, and Marina Abramović. Continue
Finding Your Roots
Brown University President Ruth Simmons grew up in a family of sharecroppers, a notorious system in which farmers pick cotton and live on someone else's land for a share of the profits. But they had to pay such high charges for rent, they often fell into a cycle of debt. Continue
ART:21
To celebrate the sixth season of the broadcast series, “Art in the Twenty-First Century”—premiering April 13 on PBS—Art21 presents an exclusive online Q&A; with two of the season’s featured artists, Catherine Opie and El Anatsui. Both artists, as well as artist Ai Weiwei, are featured in the season’s first episode, “Change.” The full episode is can be viewed online ahead of the April 13 premiere. Continue
Finding Your Roots
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. looks into the genealogical pasts of journalist Barbara Walters and educator Geoffrey Canada. Continue
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