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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

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

The Express Way with Dulé Hill

Why Race Matters

Ritual

The Black Church

Highlighted

America ReFramed: The Cost of Inheritance

America ReFramed

The Cost of Inheritance

Exploring reparations to illuminate the scope and rationale of this complex debate.

55m 23s

Origin of Everything: The History of Reparations

Origin of Everything

The History of Reparations

One of the most controversial topics moving through American politics for over 150 years.

14m 12s

American Experience: The Harvest: Integrating Mississippis Schools

American Experience

The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools

The story of a Mississippi town’s effort to integrate its public schools in 1970.

1h 47m 20s

PBS Wisconsin Documentaries: Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams

PBS Wisconsin Documentaries

Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams

The story of Civil Rights leader Vel Phillips, a woman of many "firsts" in Wisconsin.

56m 45s

Ritual: How River Baptisms Shaped Black Musical Tradition

How River Baptisms Shaped Black Musical Tradition

Tank Ball discovers the significance of river baptisms for the Black community.

14m 27s

American Experience: The Busing Battleground

American Experience

The Busing Battleground

Revisit 1970s Boston, when court-mandated school integration unleashed racial unrest.

1h 52m 38s

REEL SOUTH: Young Kings

Young Kings

A love story about a few boys and their bikes.

17m 6s

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Wisconsin Voter Stories

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: Wisconsin Voter Stories: Angela Lang

Angela Lang knows that voting is just one part of a larger civic responsibility.

1m 11s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: Wisconsin Voter Stories: Christy Clark-Pujara

Christy Clark-Pujara feels that, as an African American woman, voting is critical.

59s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: Wisconsin Voter Stories: Sean Kendricks

While waiting to have his rights restored, Sean Kendricks works to register new voters.

1m 19s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: Wisconsin Voter Stories: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore

U.S. Representative Gwen Moore recognizes that voting represents power.

50s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: Wisconsin Voter Stories: Emily Flood

Emily Flood challenges her peers to get engaged in politics and to vote.

59s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: Wisconsin Voter Stories: Cate Zeuske

Former State Treasurer Cate Zeuske’s grandmother voted in the first election permitted.

1m 17s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: Wisconsin Voter Stories: Alejandra Muñoz Contreras

Alejandra Muñoz Contreras feels that voting allows her to be a voice for her community.

1m 5s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: Wisconsin Voter Stories: Angela Lang

Angela Lang knows that voting is just one part of a larger civic responsibility.

1m 11s

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MLK Celebrations

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: MLK 2024 Tribute: Highlights

MLK 2024 Tribute: Highlights

56m 48s

PBS Wisconsin Originals: Why Race Matters: MLK Day Special

Why Race Matters: MLK Day Special

54m 35s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: MLK 2021 Tribute: Together As One

MLK 2021 Tribute: Together As One

56m 48s

PBS Wisconsin Public Affairs: MLK 2020 Tribute: Stand for Justice

MLK 2020 Tribute: Stand for Justice

1h 56m 53s

PBS Wisconsin Documentaries and Digital Series

Why Race Matters

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

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.

PBS Wisconsin News: In Focus

Here and Now: In Focus with Rev. Greg Lewis: The Power of the Black Church

In Focus with Rev. Greg Lewis: The Power of the Black Church

34m 34s

Here and Now: In Focus with Michael Wagner: Journalism in the 2020s

In Focus with Michael Wagner: Journalism in the 2020s

25m 55s

Here and Now: In Focus with Roy Wood Jr.: Whats Funny About Wisconsin?

In Focus with Roy Wood Jr.: What's Funny About Wisconsin?

15m 8s

Here and Now: In Focus with Rev. Alex Gee: A Decade of Justified Anger

In Focus with Rev. Alex Gee: A Decade of Justified Anger

40m 26s

StoryCorps Shorts

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