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Building on the widespread acclaim of African American Lives (2006) and Oprah’s Roots (2007), AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 again journeys deep into the African-American experience to reveal the triumphs and tragedies within the family histories of an all-new group of remarkable participants. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns as series host, guiding genealogical investigations down through the 20th century, Reconstruction, slavery and early U.S. history, and presenting cutting-edge genetic analysis that locates participants’ ancestors in Africa, Europe and America.
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AMERICAN MASTERS Pete Seeger: The Power of Song “Take it from Dr. King”
AMERICAN MASTERS Pete Seeger: The Power of Song airs February 27 on PBS (check local listings). Pete Seeger helped introduce America to its own musical heritage, devoting his life to using the power of sing as a force for social change. Standing strong for deeply-held beliefs, Seeger went from the top of the pop charts to the top of the blacklist and was banned from American commercial television for more than 17 years. This determined singer/songwriter made his voice heard and encouraged the people of the world to sing out along with him. Now almost 90, Seeger continues to invigorate and inspire the musicians who help tell his story- including Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, and others. In this web premiere, Pete Seeger performs “Take it from Dr. King” AMERICAN MASTERS is produced for PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York. For more information, visit www.pbs.org/americanmasters
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AMERICAN MASTERS Pete Seeger: The Power of Song "Think Globally"
AMERICAN MASTERS Pete Seeger: The Power of Song airs February 27 on PBS (check local listings). Pete Seeger helped introduce America to its own musical heritage, devoting his life to using the power of sing as a force for social change. Standing strong for deeply-held beliefs, Seeger went from the top of the pop charts to the top of the blacklist and was banned from American commercial television for more than 17 years. This determined singer/songwriter made his voice heard and encouraged the people of the world to sing out along with him. Now almost 90, Seeger continues to invigorate and inspire the musicians who help tell his story- including Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, and others. In this video clip, Pete Seeger explains how you can change the world. AMERICAN MASTERS is produced for PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York. For more information, visit www.pbs.org/americanmasters
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GREAT PERFORMANCES' Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Encore Presentation
CLAPTON'S CROSSROADS FESTIVAL CHICAGO ENCORES ON THIRTEEN/WNET NEW YORK'S GREAT PERFORMANCES ON PBS Credited throughout his career with creating super sounds in super groups, Eric Clapton offers his ultimate collaboration in Eric Clapton Crossroad Guitar Festival Chicago, encoring Wednesday, March 19 at 9 p.m. (ET) on Thirteen/WNET New York's GREAT PERFORMANCES on PBS (check local listings). A follow-up to his groundbreaking, all-star Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, the event drew nearly 28,000 fans to Chicago's Toyota Park July 28, 2007. Like its predecessor, the Chicago event was a benefit for Clapton's Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a drug and alcohol education and treatment facility.
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NATURE | Kalahari: The Great Thirstland | An agonizing march | PBS
When the dry season begins in the Kalahari, flamingos chicks must persevere the hostile conditions and journey on foot to the nearest water source. From Nature's KALAHARI: THE GREAT THIRSTLAND, airing JULY 8th ON PBS (check local listings.) Shot in high-definition, this film by renowned naturalist filmmaker Tim Liversedge captures the astonishing ecological spectacle of Kalahari. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
View the entire show at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/watch/index.html Watch this preview of "The Scientific Method" Exposé: America's Investigative Reports, on PBS. Black smoke from an oil refinery darkens the skies over Houston - airspace already ranked among the most polluted in the country. For thousands of residents living right alongside the city's industrial plants, the odors and dust in the air are clear signs the plants are polluting the environment. But no one has ever bothered to tell them exactly what they are breathing...until now. EXPOSÉ details the Houston Chronicle investigation that gave a city the answers to some troubling environmental questions. And watch the full episode when it premieres online, Wednesday, July 18, at 12 noon ET. (Or check your local listings for broadcast dates on PBS nationwide, beginning Friday, July 20.) For web-exclusive video and audio features, and to stream other episodes in the series, go to http://www.pbs.org/expose
A Bill Moyers essay that highlights comments from the Senate floor on the war in Iraq. Watch full episodes of BILL MOYERS JOURNAL at http://www.pbs.org/moyers Check local PBS listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
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