Professor Gates describes the history of the African American people by talking to historians, authors, and the people who made history.
Air Date: 2013-10-22
From PBS: "The Black Atlantic" explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. Beginning a ...
Air Date: 2013-10-29
"The Age of Slavery" illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. Fo...
Air Date: 2013-11-05
"Into the Fire" examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African-American history: the Civil War and ...
Air Date: 2013-11-12
"Making a Way Out of No Way" portrays the Jim Crow era, when African Americans struggled to build their own worlds wi...
Air Date: 2013-11-19
"Rise!" examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsus...
Air Date: 2013-11-26
After 1968, African Americans set out to build a bright future on the foundation of the civil rights movement's victo...