BHM TV: Feb 16 2009

5:00 am (HGTV)

Restore America: A Salute to Preservation

Ebenezer Baptist Church, Edith Wharton House, and President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument

 

6:00 am (HIST)

Save Our History: The Underground Railroad : Part 1 of 2.

Two-part program uses slaves' engravings, songs, and diaries to chronicle their quest for freedom and profiles some of the pipeline's more prominent figures.   

8 am (TVONE)

Barack Obama: The Man and His Journey

President Obama shares stories of those who have inspired his journey.

8:30 am (HBO) 

Joe Louis: America's Hero... Betrayed

Chronicles the life and career of the famed boxer, including his influence on perceptions of race and class in pre-war America.   

 

10:00 pm  (PBS) 

SIMON SCHAMA’S ROUGH CROSSINGS

At the end of the American Revolution, slaves were offered freedom in return for service to the British. This is the story of their resettlement first in Nova Scotia, then Sierra Leone, where dreams of a haven came to a tragic end.