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A collection featuring diverse voices defining the story of Wisconsin and essential to our national narrative.
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Black Communities
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.
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PBS Wisconsin Documentaries and Digital Series
Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams
The story of civil rights leader Vel Phillips, a woman of many ``firsts`` in Wisconsin.
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.
The Light
Zhalarina Sanders tells an autobiographical story of forbidden love woven through three lyrical music videos fusing hip-hop and the theater arts.
Watch Eyes On The Prize (1990) with PBS Passport
Awakenings (1954-1956)
Individual acts of courage inspire Black Southerners to fight for their rights.
Fighting Back (1957–1962)
States’ rights, loyalists, and federal authorities collide over school integration.
Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
Black college students take a leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Mississippi - Is This America? (1963-1964)
Mississippi’s grassroots Civil Rights Movement becomes an American concern.
Bridge to Freedom (1965)
A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery,
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