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Black History & Culture Video Playlist On-Demand

Black man facing away wrapped in a U.S. flag with some victims names written on the inside of it that have died due to racism and display backwards on the flag.

PBS continues to provide programming on-air and on-demand regarding history and current issues for 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.

PBS is continuing our commitment to highlight content that will continue the conversation, add historical context to these issues and enable change. Below you will find programs that profile police departments, specials that detail conversations parents of color have with their children, documentaries that cover the treatment of Blacks since slavery and films that shed light on both past and current events.

The History of White People in America

The history of how skin became race, and race became power. (3 episodes below the trailer)

AMERICA REFRAMED Tutwiler

Exploring the Alabama Prison Birth Project at Alabama’s women-only Julia Tutwiler Prison.

LOCAL, USA A Dream Deferred: The Broken Promise of NYC Public Housing

An intimate look at the lives of New York City Housing Authority residents.

LOCAL, USA Beyond the Tap

Examining the costs of one of America’s greatest threats: crumbling water infrastructure.

LOCAL, USA Veterans Coming Home – Health

The health challenges veterans face in transitioning from military to civilian life.

Two Dollars and a Dream

The biography of Madame C.J. Walker, America’s first self-made millionairess.

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