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October 9, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama's campaign is deploying Big Bird in a new TV ad chiding Mitt Romney…
October 5, 2012
NEWS ONE - On Thursday night, the former Emmy-winning host and producer of 'Reading Rainbow,' LeVar Burton (pictured right), blasted…
July 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The new documentary 'Endgame: AIDS in Black America' is a two-hour exploration of how black America is…
May 1, 2012
PBS's series 'American Experience' will honor Jesse Owens with a 1-hour look at his life and Olympic career...
January 6, 2012
'Slavery By Another Name,' a new PBS documentary, explores and upends what producers say is a widely accepted notion: that…
October 20, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Laurence Fishburne is the narrator for an upcoming PBS documentary on black workers in the post-slavery…
August 30, 2011
PBS's Friday newsmagazine "Need to Know" is losing Alison Stewart, the second of its original co-anchors to depart, when it…
May 31, 2011
OPINION - He really is hip-hop's Elvis, which means dealing with the constant reminders that he is not going anywhere...
May 30, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network's website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac…
January 19, 2011
VIDEO - He said, "The world sees us as we should be seen. As intelligent, beautiful, and qualified just like…
December 21, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated…