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Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Langston Hughes
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Black History Month Resources of the Day: Artist Faith Ringgold
Reading Rainbow - Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold Reads Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold's Life's Work
Faith Ringgold on the Process of Creating the "Tar Beach" Story Quilt
Faith Ringgold on Writing Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold - Guggenheim Museum
Faith Ringgold and Story Quilts Lesson Plan
Kimball Art Center: Faith Ringgold Story Quilts Lesson Plan
ON THIS DATE
TREASURES WITH BETTANY HUGHES - Treasures of Greece
Thursday, 2/1 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Greece is the birthplace of an astonishing culture that changed the way the world thinks. Bettany starts her journey in Athens, the crowning achievement of ancient Greek civilization and a symbol of intellect and democracy the world over. TREASURES WITH BETTANY HUGHES Streaming Video
TREASURES WITH BETTANY HUGHES - Treasures of Malta
Thursday, 2/1 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Bettany discovers Malta as a cultural hub laden with some of the world's most precious treasures, where civilizations from East, West, North, and South have met and combined. TREASURES WITH BETTANY HUGHES Streaming Video
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Jamestown's Dark Winter
Thursday, 2/1 from 3-4 pm NH EXPLORE
Follow forensic anthropologists as they excavate the early American colony and uncover dark secrets. What do the newly discovered bones of a 14-year-old English girl reveal about what really happened during the winter of 1609? SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video
AMERICN EXPERIENCE - Nazi Town USA
Thursday, 2/1 from 11 am -12 pm NH WORLD
Nazi Town, USA tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group that in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. They held joint rallies with the KKK and ran summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery, melding patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Going Back to T-Town
Thursday, 2/1 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Revisit Greenwood, a Black community in Tulsa. Torn apart in 1921 by a racially- motivated massacre, the neighborhood rose again but could not survive integration and urban renewal. A bittersweet portrait of small-town life told by those who lived it. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video
EYES ON THE PRIZE - Awakenings (1954-1956)
Thursday, 2/1 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. EYES ON THE PRIZE Streaming Video
EYES ON THE PRIZE - Fightin Back (1957-1962)
Thursday, 2/1 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School and in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. EYES ON THE PRIZE Streaming Video
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