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In New York City, a team of elite engineers and construction workers are on a mission to build the ultimate airport. Follow their ups and downs as they race to build a new, world-c...
NOVA
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From Series: Finding Your Roots (Season 11)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets actor Sheryl Lee Ralph and historian Lonnie Bunch, two African Americans whose ancestors broke boundaries as they moved from slavery to freedom. Travel...
PBS
For decades, the United States has balanced military strength with soft power—influence through culture, diplomacy, and foreign assistance—across the world, and especially in the M...
Open to Debate
The revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) is underway, and the United States and China are racing to surpass each other. At the heart of this competition are computer chips, t...
Established by the United Nations in 1949, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) aimed to temporarily assist Palestinian refugees displ...
From Series: Legends and Legacy: The Soul of African Storytelling
This program explores the rich heritage of African folktales, revealing how timeless stories preserve history, teach values, and celebrate culture through powerful narration and vi...
Olurotimi Ogunjobi
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On December 8, 2024, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his entire family fled his country and sought refuge in Russia. After making a startling comeback from nearly losing everyt...
Java Films
Trump and Republican candidates made rolling back federal protections for transgender people a big issue, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on TV ads, much of it focused on...
NewsHour Productions
The national minimum wage today is just over $7 an hour. But a provision in a landmark labor law from nearly 90 years ago allows employers to pay certain workers with disabilities...
Learn about an online network known as Terrorgram, which was designed to spread extremism and violence. With ProPublica, this program traces the rise of a global community of white...
Frontline
This series explores the transformative impact of Black migration on American culture and society. From the waves of Black Americans to the North–and back to the South–over the las...
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From Series: Great Migrations: A People on the Move
This episode explores the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940), a collective leap into the unknown as more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the p...
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The 1970s marked a turning point in American history. For the first time in 60 years, more Black people were moving to the South than leaving it. Driven by mass movements and econo...
From Series: Talking Black in America
This program is an exposé of linguistic discrimination and its lifelong consequences in the lives of individual Black language speakers in the areas of education, the workplace, ho...
NC State University
From Title: Episode 1: Exodus (Great Migrations: A People on the Move)
Thousands of black Americans left the Jim Crow South for northern cities, like Detroit, over a 60-year period. Many had worked as sharecroppers on farms of their enslaved ancestors...
Lynchings increased during the 1910s and 1920s, "The Defender" often reported on them. Black communities in the South often relocated to Chicago after a lynching. Many black migran...
From Title: Episode 2: Streets Paved with Gold (Great Migrations: A People on the Move)
Many black migrants went West seeking wartime jobs in cities like Seattle and Los Angeles. Black communities, like South Central, began to form throughout southern California.
Black newspapers highlighted the lives of black people in Hollywood and encouraged people to move west in the 1930s and 1940s. Hattie McDaniel was one of the most prominent black a...
Black working-class families bought land white people sought to sell in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Henry and Texanna Laws moved into their dream home in 1944 as one of...
Civil Rights activists Randolph and Bayard Rustin began planning the march while black northerners continued to face employment and housing discrimination. Their goal was to end th...
From Title: Episode 3: One Way Ticket Back (Great Migrations: A People on the Move)
Many northern urban areas became economically disadvantaged as thousands of white Americans moved to the suburbs. Redlining prohibited black Americans from doing the same in large...
Tensions increased in cities like Detroit and in 1967 many black communities stood up against police harassment. An uprising in July 1967 left 43 people dead and 2,500 buildings de...
Black magazines in the 1970s encouraged reverse migration. Atlanta was becoming a new Black Mecca with its numerous black colleges and businesses. Maynard Jackson became the first...
With northern states losing black populations to the South, the opportunity to create new black political power arose. In 2008, Democrats gained political power in the South thanks...
The voting rights activism by Abrams and others made Georgia a more Democratic state. In 2020, Georgia played a key role in electing President Joe Biden and two democratic senators...
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