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Two PBS documentaries paint a grim picture of the American soul.
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Corporate anti-racism – Bank of America is a major sponsor for the documentary – causes Ken Burns to pull his punches.
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Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood has become one of our central gospels of child-rearing.
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As a potentially thoughtful drama (hey, this is PBS) set during a revolutionary and colonialist era, Beecham House falls as flat as papadum.
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Blood Sugar Rising deals with difficult subject matter, but steel yourself to view this engaging and educational look at a growing public health crisis.
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Jamestown is a vividly timely reminder that anyone who calls themselves an “American” is actually descended from immigrants.
Read More“Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity.”
Read MoreNot everybody loves the documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Director Rory Kennedy responds to some of the criticism.
Read MoreIn the first episode, Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes viewers back to Africa to talk, not as has been done before, with Africans whose forebears were lost to slavery but with descendants of Africans who grew rich on slave trade.
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Music Commentary: Ken Burns’ “Country Music” — Superb Cinematic Storytelling
Country Music digs into the rich, deep dirt of a music with a complicated past, a hybrid genre soaked in soulful suffering, twangy glory, and times both high and tough.
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