PBS Books: Making Black America: Through The Grapevine with Professor Higginbotham

In anticipation of Making Black America: Through the Grapevine, PBS Books presents a conversation with the film's producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D. and scholar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D.

PBS Books, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is pleased to host a conversation with internationally renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D., who is the executive producer, host and writer of MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE, with esteemed scholar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D., who is the former past president of ASALH, on Wedneday, September 28 at 8 p.m. on WXXI's Facebook page.

Explore the themes and content in MAKING BLACK AMERICA as Professor Gates discusses his work and his process for his new documentary in dialogue with his long-time friend and colleague Professor Higginbotham—both are foremost scholars in the field of African American history.