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1 9:30pm Finding Refuge Late Blossom Blues The efforts of one dying woman to When 81 year-old Leo "Bud" Welch preserve her Native culture don't from the Mississippi backwoods end when she passes, but prompts released his debut record a renewal in finding pride in that "Sabougla Voices" in 2014, he took culture. She confronts the violent the Blues world by surprise: Where event over two centuries ago that has this guy been for the past 60 began the destruction of her people years? Why has nobody ever heard WSKG-DT4 and the shame that colonialism of him before? LATE BLOSSOM created. BLUES follows Leo and his March 2019 10pm PBS NewsHour manager Vencie Varnado, a Gulf expanded listings 11pm Nightly Business Report War Veteran, as they balance the 11:30pm Day tight rope between business and 12am Independent Lens geriatrics, between jet lag and 1 Friday Dolores sound check. It also paints a 9pm Penny: Champion of the Meet the indomitable Dolores heart-warming portrait of Leo's Marginalized Huerta, who tirelessly led the fight small hometown Bruce, MS where PENNY is a multi-dimensional for racial and labor justice Leo's daily life is still untouched by portrait of Penny Cooper, a alongside Cesar Chavez, becoming his late global fame. celebrated criminal defense one of the most defiant - and 11:30pm Our American Family: attorney, art collector, supporter of unheralded - feminist activists of The Clarks female artists, and protector of the the 20th century. The first half of the 1900's underdog. Cooper's life brims with 2 Saturday represents the last era of American stories mirroring the profound 8pm Holly Near: American life that, for most families, began changes in our country from the Masters largely unchanged from the 1940s to the present. In this Experience the power of song in generations that came before. For revealing documentary, Cooper the struggle for equality through the generations, the Clark family of proves herself quite the raconteur story of feminist singer and activist Frankford, DE has shown with seemingly unlimited Holly Near, who for the last 40 tremendous support of one another anecdotes. Her stories are years has worked on global social as members faced hard times with engaging; sometimes funny, and justice coalition-building in the tender loyalty. "Our American sometimes distressing. The film is a women's and lesbian movements. Family: The Clarks" traces the lives collection of these moments as told 9pm Keeper of the Beat: A of this African-American family with by Cooper and the people who Woman's Journey into the Heart seven children as they employed have been impacted by her of Dru humor, resourcefulness and dynamic spirit. The talented lawyer Keeper of the Beat: A Woman's respect for all through the and art enthusiast offers a unique Journey into the Heart of Drumming Depression, WWII, and racial perspective on important social is an award-winning documentary tension. narratives such as criminal justice, on the life and music of acclaimed 12am Holly Near: American the artists and collectors who drummer, composer and teacher, Masters generate today's global Barbara Borden. Filmed on four Experience the power of song in contemporary art market, gender continents by three-time Emmy the struggle for equality through the equality, and more. Through it all, winner, David L. Brown, the film story of feminist singer and activist she has found herself at the center tells Borden's inspiring story Holly Near, who for the last 40 of dramatic social progress for through performance, interviews, years has worked on global social women. A role model and pioneer, archival material and excerpts of justice coalition-building in the Cooper perhaps owes much of her Borden's autobiographical women's and lesbian movements. success in transcending the glass percussion play, "She Dares to 3 Sunday ceiling to her unwavering resilience, Drum." 8pm Nature fortitude and infamous humility. 10pm America ReFramed Yosemite Page 2 of 13 – March 2019 WORLD expanded guide Yosemite is a land forged in wildfire The Long Way Home 11:30pm Day and sculpted by water, but with Discover how actress Julianna 12am Mankiller climate change, water is scarcer Marguiles, author Azar Nafisi and Learn about the legacy of Wilma and fire more common. Join chef Lidia Bastianich are bound Mankiller, who overcame sexism to scientists and adventurers to together by their ancestors' singular emerge as the Cherokee Nation's investigate how these global and deeply human desire to first woman Principal Chief. changes are affecting one of preserve their most cherished Through archival footage and America's greatest wildernesses. traditions. interviews, MANKILLER examines 9pm Finding Your Roots 12am Nature the life of one of the country's most Hard Times Yosemite important woman leaders. Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Yosemite is a land forged in wildfire 5 Tuesday explores the family stories of and sculpted by water, but with 8pm America ReFramed filmmaker Michael Moore and climate change, water is scarcer Finding Kukan actors Laura Linney and Chloe and fire more common. Join Filmmaker Robin Lung documents Sevigny -- three people whose scientists and adventurers to her 7-year journey to uncover the distant ancestors overcame great investigate how these global efforts of Li Ling-Ai, the visionary hardships in ways that resonate changes are affecting one of but uncredited producer of Kukan. with their lives today. America's greatest wildernesses. Lung discovers a damaged film 10pm Doc World 4 Monday print of Kukan, and pieces together Towards The North/Los Comandos 8pm Warrior Women the untold tale of the two Los Comandos: El Salvador - Warrior Women is the untold story renegades behind its making -- Li where gang and police violence of American Indian Movement Ling-Ai and Rey Scott. A landmark rule the country with the highest activists who fought for civil rights film, Kukan showcased China's murder rate in the world. For in the '70s, anchored by one of the resistance to Japanese occupation 16-year-old Mimi and her friends, Red Power Movement's most during World War II, and was the refuge from the bloodshed can be outspoken Lakota leaders, first American feature documentary found in a group of volunteer Madonna Thunder Hawk, and her to receive an Academy Award in paramedics called the Comandos daughter Marcy Gilbert. 1942. de Salvamento. But when the 9pm Life on the Line 9pm Reel South brutality reaches one of their fellow San Bernardino Strong First Lady of the Revolution Comandos, Mimi must decide if she Julie never thought she would be Produced and Directed by: Andrea will stay and risk her life helping where she is now: healing from two Kalin. Henrietta Boggs, a reluctant others, or flee the country and head gunshot wounds when her Southern belle, finds her way to north. Towards the North: Every co-worker and his wife opened fire Central America in the 1940s, in year, thousands of people flee the at an employee meeting in one of search of freedom and adventure. extreme gang violence of Central the deadliest terrorist attacks. In the Instead, she is swept up in political America in hopes of a better life. midst of this tragedy, hope lives on. upheaval, when her new husband TOWARDS THE NORTH gives an You see it in the eyes of Julie who is elected president of Costa Rica. intimate look into the daily battles of is set on sharing her hope with First Lady of the Revolution asylum seekers on the run through others. You witness it in the heroic portrays a courageous woman who the eyes of Nelly and her daughter efforts of first responders helping escaped the confines of a sheltered Joseline. With their sights set on those injured. And you feel it in a existence to help nurture a young the U.S., the mother and daughter bond the community formed like democracy. team face the task of crossing the never before. 10pm PBS NewsHour length of Mexico. But they soon 9:30pm Stories from the Stage 11pm Nightly Business Report realize the journey may be more Didn't See That Coming 11:30pm Day difficult than they first imagined. 10pm PBS NewsHour 12am America ReFramed 11pm Finding Your Roots 11pm Nightly Business Report Finding Kukan Page 3 of 13 – March 2019 WORLD expanded guide Filmmaker Robin Lung documents Medicine Woman, interweaves the brings one of the 20th century's her 7-year journey to uncover the lives of Native American women best-loved writers out from the efforts of Li Ling-Ai, the visionary healers of today with the story of shadow of her often controversial but uncredited producer of Kukan. America's first Native doctor, Susan husband, the pioneering aviator Lung discovers a damaged film La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915). Charles Lindbergh. The film uses print of Kukan, and pieces together The one-hour PBS documentary Anne's own words to help convey the untold tale of the two produced by and about women, her inner life, which was deeply renegades behind its making -- Li features historic and contemporary affected by the challenges of being Ling-Ai and Rey Scott. A landmark profiles of female healers, starting part of America's most famous film, Kukan showcased China's with Susan La Flesche Picotte couple. resistance to Japanese occupation (1865-1915) of the Omaha Tribe of 10pm PBS NewsHour during World War II, and was the Nebraska. 11pm Nightly Business Report first American feature documentary 10pm PBS NewsHour 11:30pm Day to receive an Academy Award in 11pm Nightly Business Report 12am Beyond The Powder: The 1942. 11:30pm Day Legacy of the First Women's 6 Wednesday