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