PBS Books: Making Black America: Through The Grapevine with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

PBS Books, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), hosts a talk with award-winning Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

Ms. Jeffers is author of The Love Songs of WEB DuBois in connection with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s latest documentary, Making Black America: Through the Grapevine. Author Talk: "Making Black America: Through The Grapevine" with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, will take place Wednesday, October 5 at 8 p.m. on WXXI's Facebook page.

Making Black America: Through The Grapevine is a four-part series that explores Black Americans’ Centuries-Long History of Establishing Communities and Attaining Social, Political and Economic Success in the face of racial segregation; the documentary premieres on PBS stations across the country starting on Tuesday, October 4 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV. In this latest series from the acclaimed Harvard scholar and documentarian, Gates and director Stacey L. Holman chronicle the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the “White gaze.” During the series, Gates sits with noted scholars, politicians, cultural leaders, and old friends to discuss this world behind the color line and what it looks like today. Making Black America: Through The Grapevine takes viewers into an extraordinary world that showcased Black people’s ability to collectively prosper, defy white supremacy and define Blackness in ways that transformed America itself.