Arts and Culture

For great arts and culture content and discussion

both on-air and online, start here. Arts and cultural programming on WXXI-TV and Radio, as well as online discussions and special events hosted by WXXI are featured below. Read more

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Featured Programming

Native America

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 2:00pm

on WXXI World

Native America illuminates the splendor of a past whose story has for too long remained untold.

BOSS: The Black Experience in Business on WXXI-World

Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 2:00pm

on WXXI World

Learn about the untold story of African American entrepreneurship, where skill, industriousness, ingenuity and sheer courage in the face of overwhelming odds provide the backbone of this nation’s economic and social growth.

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise On-Demand

In Black America Since MLK, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. looks at the last 50 years of African-American history. Watch On-Demand through 9/7/2020

On-Demand GREAT PERFORMANCES: Twilight: Los Angeles:

Observe several real-life individuals — portrayed by Anna Deavere Smith — involved in the Rodney King affair.

Code Switch Podcast from NPR

Remember when folks used to talk about being "post-racial"? Well, we're definitely not that. The Code Switch Podcast Team are a multi-racial, multi-generational team of NPR journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting. Listen to Episodes On-Demand and Subscribe to the podcast.

Watch On-Demand American Experience: The Vote

Watch Part 1 and Part 2 On-Demand: This film, tells the dramatic story of the epic — and surprisingly unfamiliar — crusade waged by American women for the right to vote.