MEDIA ALERT

BAM announces moderator Michel Martin (NPR) and exclusive live stream for American Fault Line: Race and the American Ideal—Ken Burns & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—March 16

A candid and wide-ranging conversation on race in America in anticipation of the upcoming PBS films Jackie Robinson and Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave) Mar 16 at 8pm Tickets available to the general public via BAM.org on Jan 26 (BAM Member on sale Jan 19)

As previously announced, on March 16th acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns and historian and professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will share the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House stage and engage in a dialogue about race in America, one that began in Charleston, SC on December 9 and continues in Austin, TX at SXSW on March 12 and Washington, DC on March 14 before coming to BAM. These live conversations contextualize the national broadcasts of their upcoming films on PBS: Burns’ Jackie Robinson (April 11 & 12) and Gates’ Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (fall 2016).

Today BAM is pleased to announce that NPR host Michel Martin will join the BAM date as the evening’s moderator and that the candid and wide-ranging conversation will be live-streamed via BAM.org. BAM is the final stop on the nationwide tour and the only venue to live stream the event. Press and media will be able to embed the BAM video directly on their own sites, or send their audience to BAM.org to view the program. Visit BAM.org/AmericanFaultLine closer to the date for more details.

Michel Martin is weekend host of All Things Considered. Outside the studio, she hosts Michel Martin: Going There, a live event series in collaboration with member stations. Martin came to NPR in 2006 and launched Tell Me More, a one-hour daily NPR news and talk show that aired on NPR stations nationwide from 2007-2014. For an expanded bio, click here.

About the live stream, produced by BAM and distributed in partnership with PBS, Ken Burns says: “The only thing more exciting than an opportunity to speak in the Opera House at BAM is to have that conversation streamed nationally so people throughout the country can participate. This is an extraordinary moment in our country’s history right now related to how we deal with issues around race. It is important that we all contribute to this conversation. I’m honored to join my good friend, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., at BAM to share our thoughts.”

For press information about the BAM engagement, please contact Adriana Leshko at [email protected] or 718.724.8021.

For press information about the PBS films, please contact Alexandra Stromer at [email protected] or 212.685.4300

Click through here for the complete press release.