BHM TV: CHECK YOR LOCAL LISTINGS

The following programs may air in your area at various times throughout February so check your local listings. NOTE: These shows may NOT be airing in NYC:

AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 (PBS)

Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. guides a group — including poet Maya Angelou, actors Don Cheadle and Morgan Freeman, radio host Tom Joyner, comedian Chris Rock and rock ’n’ roll legend Tina Turner — on a journey to discover their ancestry. The four-part series draws on DNA analysis, genealogical research and family oral tradition to trace the lineages of the participants down through U.S. history and back to Africa. 

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: EYES ON THE PRIZE(PBS)
The groundbreaking documentary series examining America’s civil rights years returns to public television as part of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Covering the period from the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, and the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott through school desegregation, the march from Selma to Montgomery and the Voting Rights Act, EYES ON THE PRIZE is considered the definitive history of this formative time in the nation’s life.

FANNIE LOU HAMER: COURAGE AND FAITH (PBS)
Using archival footage and interviews with those who knew her well and were affected by her actions, this program chronicles the extraordinary life of Fannie Lou Hamer and introduces her to a new, younger generation. Mrs. Hamer attended the 1964 Democratic National Convention as a member of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party and challenged the all-white Mississippi delegation.

INDEPENDENT LENS “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” (PBS)
This film takes an in-depth look at machismo in rap music and hip-hop culture — where creative genius, poetic beauty and mad beats collide with misogyny, violence and homophobia.

SHARED HISTORY (PBS)
SHARED HISTORY is the intimate story of the relationship between two families whose connection was forged in slavery and has endured to the present. The filmmaker, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave owner, and Rhonda Kearse, a descendant of one of the enslaved families, seek to understand and reconcile the reality of slavery with the shared lives and affections between the families.

SISTERS OF SELMA: BEARING WITNESS FOR CHANGE (PBS)
This program is an unabashedly spiritual take on the Selma, Alabama, voting rights marches of 1965 from some of its unsung foot soldiers – Catholic nuns. Following the violence of “Bloody Sunday,” sisters from around the country answered Dr. Martin Luther King’s call to join the protests in Selma.

THE STORY OF OSCAR BROWN JR. (PBS)
This documentary focuses on Chicago native Oscar Brown Jr.’s work as a writer and performer for more than half a century. 

ZORA’S ROOTS (PBS)

This program examines the life of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.