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Black Communities

A photograph of the PBS Wisconsin Why Race Matters studio with host Angela Fitzgerald interviewing Anwar Floyd-Pruitt

Explore an evolving collection of streaming media from PBS and PBS Wisconsin that tells the stories of diverse Black communities. Selections come from trusted programs like Independent Lens, POV, PBS NewsHour, and local PBS Wisconsin productions.

Collectively these resources see and celebrate Black lives, offering an American history and present suffused with Black excellence, resistance, joy, love, community and the ongoing project and promise of liberation.

Featured

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.”

Local Series

Why Race Matters

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

Wisconsin in Black & White

A project in partnership with the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership exposing racial disparities in the daily lives of Wisconsin's Black and white residents.