Henry Louis Gates Jr. of 'Finding Your Roots' helps PBS bring something new with 'GOSPEL,' a series that dives into the influential genre. The post A Sound That Defines A People: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Announces New PBS Series ‘GOSPEL’ appeared first on Black America Web.
Watch Roland Martin and Stanley Nelson discuss the upcoming documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution in the video clip above. Don't miss the premiere of the film tonight on PBS.
PBS has halted the third season production of Finding Your Roots after an investigation proved the omission of Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestor violated ethical guidelines. The…
President Barack Obama’s plans to allow some undocumented immigrants to reside in the U.S. have come to a halt. Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S.…
During a recent meeting in Washington, Dr. William Harvey, longtime president of Hampton University and Chairman of President Obama’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs expressed his…
When the men wrongly convicted in the racially-charged Central Park Five rape case were granted $40-plus million in a settlement with New York City, many had felt…
The film, titled “Slavery by Another Name,” is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon and will debut Feb. 13, 2012, on public TV stations nationwide. “Slavery by Another Name” examines the labor practices and laws “that effectively created new forms of slavery” after emancipation, subjecting blacks to brutal forced work, according […]
