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Samantha Brown explores the hidden gems of places you are sure to love.
Create Showcase: Samantha Brown’s Places WE Love airs Friday, February 9 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, February 10 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, February 11 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on WXXI-CREATE.
Fall in love with destinations near and far as Samantha Brown explores places you are sure to love.
Photo: Samantha eating Laksa noodle soup at Mindi Beach night market in Darwin, Australia • Provided by APT
Follow this intimate two-part series profiling Princess Margaret.
Margaret: The Rebel Princess airs Saturdays, February 10 and 17 at 10:45 p.m. on WXXI-TV.
This intimate two-part series profiles Princess Margaret, whose life and loves reflected the social and sexual revolution that transformed the western world during the 20th century.
Photo: Princess Margaret • Credit: PBS
Honoring one of the most influential, storied and beloved country music icons in history.
Freddie Mercury: The Tribute Concert airs Saturday, October 19 at 10 p .m. on WXXI-TV.
On April 20, 1992, Roger Taylor, Brian May, and John Deacon – the surviving members of Queen – took the stage of London’s legendary Wembley Stadium to announce the start of one of the biggest events in rock history: a tribute to the incomparable Freddie Mercury with a glittering array of guests, including Elton John, Robert Plant, Annie Lennox, Liza Minnelli, David Bowie, George Michael and many more. Freddie Mercury: The Tribute Concert captures this historic event, which aimed to celebrate the singer’s life and work and increase public awareness of AIDS – the disease that prematurely ended his life. Songs include “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Will Rock You,” and “We Are the Champions.”
Photo: Title card • Credit: American Public Television
The Niagara Movement | The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century, a class rarely presented. It examines the heated debate and conflict between W.E.B DuBois and William Monroe Trotter with Booker T. Washington on how to best uplift the race and secure equality for their community.
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About the Film:
The Niagara Movement: the Early Battle for Civil Rights, a powerful hour-long documentary by WNED PBS, delves deep into the movement’s pivotal role in shaping the civil rights landscape. The documentary explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century and examines the heated debate and conflict W.E.B DuBois and William Monroe Trotter had with Booker T. Washington on how to best uplift the race and secure equality for Black Americans.
In July 1905, a group of 29 men, including Black intellectuals, clergy, writers, newspapermen, and activists, was formed and led by a young sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois. The group adopted the resolutions which lead to the founding of the Niagara Movement. Its Declaration of Principles stated, in part: “We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression, and apologetic before insults.”
The Niagara Movement was, in large part, a repudiation of the methods of Booker T. Washington, the unchallenged leader of Black liberation at the time. This was a time of widespread violence against Black Americans, as the end of Reconstruction brought oppressive Jim Crow laws and widespread lynching. How were Black Americans to respond to this oppression? Washington argued that the progress for Black Americans depended on practical but limited education – that legitimate protest against white supremacy would only make things worse, and that rights were secondary to survival. The formation of the Niagara Movement was a counter-movement: a national group dedicated to accepting nothing less than full civil rights.
Although the Movement was disbanded only four years after its inception, its impact and legacy have proven long-lasting. The Niagara Movement was a critical turning point in fighting inequality and it laid the cornerstone of the modern American Civil Rights Movement. Its influence and legacy are wide: it changed the tone and approach to Black protest in America, it created tactics, such as fighting in the courts for integration, that would be used by the NAACP, and it influenced the ideology of both the “black power” movement of the 1960s and the Black Lives Matter movement of the 21st century.
Honoring one of the most influential, storied and beloved country music icons in history.
Great Performances – George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum airs Friday, February 23 at 9 p .m. on WXXI-TV.
George Jones’ hits including “I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair,” “The Race Is On,” “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and many more are performed by Travis Tritt, Tanya Tucker, Brad Paisley, Jelly Roll, Dierks Bentley, Sam Moore, Wynona, Jamey Johnson, Uncle Kracker, Trace Adkins, Lorrie Morgan, Joe Nichols and other country stars accompanied by a band of Nashville’s top players. Recorded April 25, 2023, from the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the tribute marked the 10th anniversary of Jones’ passing.
In his lifetime, George Jones sold over 20 million albums, was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, a member of the Grand Ole Opry, a Kennedy Center Honoree, National Medal of the Arts recipient and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award recipient.
Photo: Stage shot • Credit: PBS
The story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control.
American Experience: Fly With Me airs Tuesday, February 20 at 9 p .m. on WXXI-TV.
Becoming a “stewardess,” as they were called, offered unheard-of opportunities for travel, glamor, adventure and independence. Although often maligned as feminist sellouts, these women were on the frontlines of the battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace. Featuring firsthand accounts, personal stories and a rich archival record, the film tells the lively and important but neglected history of the women who changed the world while flying it.
Photo: Title art • Credit: PBS
For those who don’t enjoy watching the big game, WXXI-TV offers a dramatic alternative – a marathon of Masterpiece programming.
Super Drama Sunday kicks off Sunday, February 11 at 12 p.m. on WXXI-TV.
Beginning at 12 p.m. enjoy eight episodes from season 1 of Victoria on Masterpiece. In Victoria, Jenna Coleman stars as her fearless Majesty Queen Victoria. Follow the queen’s remarkable and emotional story, from her giddy ascension to the British throne at age 18, infatuation with dashing mentor Lord Melbourne, passionate romance and early marriage to Germany’s Prince Albert, and the growth into her royal role.
At 8 p.m. it’s Miss Scarlet and the Duke, at its usual broadcast spot. In the season finale of season four, entitled The Fugitive, Eliza is on the trail of a fugitive who is charged with murder. She must find him before the police do or risk losing everything.
All Creatures Great and Small follows Miss Scarlet and the Duke at 9 p.m. with episode six of season four entitled The Home Front. When Richard Alderson needs some help, Helen returns to Heston Grange. Buried family secrets threaten to tear their relationship apart as Richard refuses to let her muck in on the farm. Gerald’s beloved dog, Rock, needs veterinary help, but he is too worried about the operation. Mrs. Hall pushes him to do the right thing.
Photo: Jenna Coleman as Majesty Queen Victoria • Credit: PBS
From the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century.
GOSPEL Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. airs Tuesday, June 4 at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV.
Musical styles come and go, but there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage, and wisdom from the pulpit to the choir lofts on any given Sunday: the gospel. The gospel concert special, produced by McGee Media, Done + Dusted, and Friends at Work, celebrates gospel music and its extraordinary impact on culture and pop music. Featuring the biggest names in gospel music together with the biggest stars from the world of pop, R&B and beyond, the concert will be recorded in Los Angeles in front of a live audience, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This one-hour PBS special, from showrunner Kristen V. Carter, will both be inspired by and build excitement for the landmark four-hour history series, GOSPEL.
Photo: Lena Byrd Miles • Credit: PBS
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