PBS Wisconsin Voices: Black Communities

Diverse Voices

Black Communities

Explore an evolving collection of streaming media from PBS and PBS Wisconsin that celebrate the stories of diverse Black communities while celebrating Black excellence, resistance, joy, love and community.

Featured Episode

The Exchange: Kaukauna & King 50 Years Later

Fifty years after Black and white students from different parts of Wisconsin came together to perform a play about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement, the original performers reunite to reflect on their experience and watch as a new generation reprises their performance of Martin Duberman's “In White America.”

56m 50s

Featured Series

PBS Wisconsin Documentaries and Digital Series

Why Race Matters

Angela Fitzgerald hosts a digital series elevating issues of importance affecting Wisconsin’s Black communities.

Hip-Hop U: The First Wave Scholars

A film exploring the innovative work of students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison First Wave – Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives program.

Statement to the Communities We Serve

There is no place for racism in our society. We must work together as a community to ensure we no longer teach, or tolerate it. Read the full statement.