Black History Month

In honor of Black History Month, WXXI-TV and Radio will broadcast a variety of programs featuring the men and women who shaped the Black experience. In addition to special programming, WXXI News plans to do several stories spotlighting the unique contributions Blacks have made here at home and around the world. As those stories air on AM 1370 they will be archive on our news page here.

Featured Programming

POV: Minding the Gap

Monday, February 18, 2019 - 9:00pm

on WXXI-TV

This POV film gives us an intimate look into friendships initiated via a passion for skateboarding and cemented by shared experience.

American Masters – Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - 9:00pm

on WXXI-TV

Explore the entertainer’s vast talent and journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th-century America.

Charley Pride: American Masters

Friday, February 22, 2019 - 9:00pm

on WXXI-TV

Explore the complicated history of the American South and its music through the life of country star Charley Pride.

Roads to Memphis: American Experience

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 9:00pm

on WXXI-TV

The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story

Monday, February 11, 2019 - 9:00pm

on WXXI-TV

Learn more about the extraordinary life of a man who, in his heart, was a poet and “mystic.” Yet through his religious expression, Howard Thurman helped ignite sweeping social change.