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Black Heritage and Culture

Explore the WXXI Black Heritage and Culture site: Your resource and guide to the films, stories, and voices centered around Black history and culture, current events, and issues. And be sure to visit WXXINews.org for coverage of community events and issues that are important to Rochester and beyond. Explore. Watch. Connect! 

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Featured Programming

Signing Black in America
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - 4:30pm
on WXXI-TV
This is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities. 
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Black Heritage and Culture

PBS LearningMedia East Lake Meadow: A Public Housing Story Collection
PBS LearningMedia has a wide range of learning resources for students in grades 7-12th grade, focused on public housing and civil rights. East Lake Meadows, the public housing project opened by the Atlanta Housing Authority in 1970 and demolished a generation later, and provides resources to understand housing policy and racism.  
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Resources on Race, Racism, Civil Rights, Current Events, and more
WXXI Education staff collected resources from PBS LearningMedia to support educators and families while discussing the following topics: race, racism, protesting, civil rights, Black history and historical individuals, bias, past and current events, and more. 
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Resources for Young Children on Race, Racism, and more
WXXI Education staff collected the following resources to support families and educators of young children as they talk, watch, read, and learn about race and racism.
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On-Demand: PBS KIDS Talk About: Race and Racism
Watch On-Demand: PBS KIDS Talk About: Race and Racism is a special co-viewing program for families with young children to watch and discuss together. 
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Martin Luther King Jr. Education Resources
WXXI Education staff collected resources from PBS to support educators and families while learning about the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 
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Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings
Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings is a curriculum, video series, and at-home activity collection that explores family history and DNA ancestry with youth, appropriate for educational settings.
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PBS Playlist Race & Racism in America On-Demand
PBS continues to provide programming on-air and on-demand regarding race, racism as resources for everyone to educate themselves and continue the conversation on all the ways that inequality in America shows up in everyday life.
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Unmarked from Reel South On-Demand
Vast amounts of African American gravesites and burial grounds for enslaved persons have been disappearing over the years and with them personal connections unless these locations are restored.
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Coming Together - Sesame Street Resources on Racial Literacy
Sesame Workshop continues its major commitment to racial justice with new resources and content called "Coming Together" to help families talk to young children about race and identity. 
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On-Demand World Channel: Race in America
A collection of films by and about individuals regarding race across the country and around the globe. Watch on-air, stream online and share the voices, the stories on WORLD and from our partners in public media.
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On-Demand World Channel: Black Stories
A collection of films by and about individuals amplifying and affirming black voices across the country and around the globe. Watch on-air, stream online and share the voices, the stories on WORLD and from our partners in public media.
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Recently Aired

The Future of Work Virtual Events
Friday, November 5, 2021 - 12:00pm
Watch the archive weekly series of virtual events to accompany the airing of the PBS Future of Work Series. Conversations include discussion of topics involving the future of work addressing quality career paths, addressing issues of race and equity, the impact of technology, lessons from young workers, continuing to work longer, women's roles in the workplace and supporting mental health. 
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WXXI Celebrates African-American Contributions
Saturday, May 1, 2021 - 6:00am
Learn more about the amazing contributions these 40 individuals have made.
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Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 - 9:30pm
on WXXI-TV
Explore how music helped sustain the most important movement of the 20th century and was in turn inspired by the struggle for equality and human rights. 
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POV: President
Monday, August 8, 2022 - 9:00pm
on WXXI-TV
How will the new leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party Nelson Chamisa challenges the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, in the 2018 general election?
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Finding Your Roots: Science Pioneers
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 - 8:00pm
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus.
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