BLACK HISTORY MONTH February 2015 KQED Public Television Programming Highlights

In February, KQED proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with a special programming lineup on KQED 9 and KQED Plus (+).

KQED 9 is available over the air on DT9.1, 54.2 and 25.1 and via most cable systems on Channel 9. It is on XFINITY cable from Comcast (Channel 9, SD, and Channel 709, HD) and on DIRECTV and DISH satellite systems (Channel 9, SD and HD).

KQED Plus is available over the air on Channel 54, DT54.1, 9.2 and 25.2 and via many cable and satellite systems on either channel 10 or 54. It is on XFINITY cable from Comcast (Channel 10, SD, and Channel 710, HD) and on DIRECTV (Channel 54, SD and HD) and DISH (Channel 54, SD only) satellite systems.

This schedule also lists programs airing on KQED Life (Comcast 189, Channel 54.3) and KQED World (Comcast 190, Channel 9.3). Some programs repeat additional times on these two channels. Visit kqed.org/dtv for the complete digital program schedule.

PROGRAMMING SYMBOLS R This program or episode will be repeated on the date/s noted. D Descriptive video information for the sight-impaired is available on televisions with stereo capability.

Programs are subject to change after press deadlines

Sunday 1 6pm KQED 9 Pioneers of Television Miniseries. LeVar Burton, Ed Asner, Richard Chamberlain discuss Roots, The Thorn Birds and other miniseries. | R (9) 2/4 1:30pm

10pm Life Jimi Hendrix: The definitive story of the influential rock guitarist features interviews and performance footage.

World AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Ladies' Turn. In Senegal, a nonprofit organization uses soccer as a powerful tool for promoting gender equality.

11:30pm KQED 9 Film School Shorts Daddy Dearest. | R (9) 2/2 5:30am

Monday 2 EARLY 5:30am KQED 9 Film School Shorts Daddy Dearest.

EVENING 7:30pm KQED 9 Film School Shorts Letting Go. | R (9) 2/3 1:30am, 2/8 11:30pm, 2/9 5:30am

Tuesday 3 EARLY 1:30am KQED 9 Film School Shorts Letting Go. | R (9) 2/8 11:30pm, 2/9 5:30am

10am Life Travelscope South Africa — On Safari! | D

11am World Independent Lens The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights. | R (World) 2/7 5pm noon World AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Sound of Torture. Follow the efforts of Swedish-Eritrean journalist Meron Estefanos as she helps aid Eritreans kidnapped, held hostage and tortured in Egypt's Sinai Desert by Bedouin smugglers. | R (World) 2/8 11pm

EVENING 7:30pm KQED 9 Spark Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Other Stories. | R (9) 2/4 1:30am, 2/6 11pm, 2/7 5am; (Life) 2/7 5:30pm, 2/8 6:30pm

11pm KQED + Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP explores Marshall's life in the years leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. | R (+) 2/4 5am

11:30pm KQED 9 Music Voyager Beyond Bob Marley. Edgar visits St. Thomas, a small city east of Kingston, to meet some very popular reggae artists. | R (9) 2/4 5:30am

Wednesday 4 EARLY 1:30am KQED 9 Spark Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Others. | R (9) 2/6 11pm, 2/7 5am; (Life) 2/7 5:30pm, 2/8 6:30pm

5am KQED + Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP

5:30am KQED 9 Music Voyager Beyond Bob Marley.

10am Life Travelscope Mozambique, Africa. | D

1:30pm KQED 9 Pioneers of Television Miniseries.

Thursday 5 8pm Life Underground Railroad: The William Still Story profiles one of the most important, yet unheralded, individuals of the Underground Railroad.

9pm Life African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross The Black Atlantic (1500–1800). | D

10pm Life African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross The Age of Slavery (1800–1860). | D

11pm Life African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Into the Fire (1861–1896). | D

Friday 6 9pm Life African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Making a Way Out of No Way (1897—1940). | D

10pm Life African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Rise! (1940–1968). | D

11pm KQED 9 Spark Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Other Stories. | R (9) 2/7 5am; (Life) 2/7 5:30pm, 2/8 6:30pm

11pm Life African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross A More Perfect Union (1968–2013). | D

Saturday 7 EARLY 5am KQED 9 Spark Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Other Stories. | R (Life) 2/7 5:30pm, 2/8 6:30pm

2pm World One Night in March highlights Mississippi State University's basketball program during the civil rights movement.

2:30pm World American Masters James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket is an in-depth portrait of one of the great American authors of the 20th century.

4pm World Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools profiles one of America's most important authors and provocative thinkers.

Sunday 8 2pm World Independent Lens The Trials of Muhammad Ali examines Muhammad Ali's battle to overturn his prison sentence for refusing U.S. military service. | D

3:30pm World Independent Lens The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 examines the black power movement from 1967 to 1975. | D

6pm KQED 9 Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories Lovely Day.

7pm KQED 9 American Masters Cab Calloway: Sketches. The singer was at the top of his game in the jazz and swing eras. | R (9) 2/9 1am

11:30pm KQED 9 Film School Shorts Letting Go. | R (9) 2/9 5:30am

Monday 9 EARLY 1am KQED 9 American Masters Cab Calloway: Sketches.

5:30am KQED 9 Film School Shorts Letting Go.

8:30am World Education of Harvey Gantt tells a pivotal, yet largely forgotten, story of desegregation. | R (World) 2/11 7am & 1pm, 2/14 2:30pm

EVENING 9pm KQED 9 Antiques Roadshow Celebrating Black Americana. | R (9) 2/10 3am, 2/13 1:30pm

Tuesday 10 EARLY 3am KQED 9 Antiques Roadshow Celebrating Black Americana. | R (9) 2/13 1:30pm

11am World Independent Lens More Than a Month. A 29-year-old African American filmmaker is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. noon World AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange AFROPUNK Presents the Triptych. | R (World) 2/15 9:30pm

EVENING 7:30pm KQED 9 Spark Leaders. To be an artist is one thing. But to lead groups of other artists is a fine art in and of itself. | R (9) 2/11 1:30am

11pm KQED + The March examines the 1963 march on Washington, its history and how it nearly did not take place. | R (+) 2/11 5am

Wednesday 11 EARLY 1:30am KQED 9 Spark Leaders.

5am KQED + The March

12:30pm World Summer Hill is a compelling look at the influence of one small, tightly knit community — its school, churches and civic leaders — on its residents.

Friday 13 1:30pm KQED 9 Antiques Roadshow Celebrating Black Americana.

Saturday 14 2pm World The Civic Life of Nathaniel Colley highlights the achievements of one of Sacramento's earliest African American lawyers.

3pm World The Abolitionists: Part One. William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe and other powerful abolitionist voices are showcased. | D

5:30pm Life Spark A Sly View. Art with a sense of humor. | R (9) 2/17 7:30pm, 2/18 1:30am

6pm KQED 9 Pioneers of Television Science Fiction focuses on Star Trek, Lost in Space and The Twilight Zone.

Sunday 15 1pm World Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Part 1 follows Jack Johnson's journey into the brutal world of professional boxing in Jim Crow America.

3pm World Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Part 2.

10pm Life Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories Everyday Sunshine: The Story of .

Monday 16 EARLY 1am KQED 9 History Detectives Fire Station, Face Artifact, Pop Lloyd's Baseball.

EVENING 7pm Life In Performance at the White House The Motown Sound. An all-star tribute to the legendary features stars from Motown's golden age. | R (9) 2/22 7pm, 2/23 1am

8pm Life Memphis tells the story of a radio DJ in the 1950s whose love of music transcends racial lines and airwaves.

10pm KQED 9 Independent Lens Through a Lens Darkly. Pioneering African American photographers have recorded the lives and aspirations of generations. | D | R (9) 2/17 4am; (Life) 2/17 9pm; (World) 2/19 11:30am

Tuesday 17 EARLY 4am KQED 9 Independent Lens Through a Lens Darkly. | D | R (Life) 2/17 9pm; (World) 2/19 11:30am

11am World The Black Kungfu Experience introduces kungfu's African American pioneers, men who challenged convention and overturned preconceived notions while mastering the ancient art. | R (9) 2/23 11pm, 2/24 5am; (Life) 2/24 10pm; (World) 2/18 7am, 1pm noon World AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange The Abominable Crime. Two Jamaicans — a young single mother and a leading human-rights activist — must flee their homeland in the face of endemic anti-gay violence. | R (World) 2/22 9pm

EVENING 7:30pm KQED 9 Spark A Sly View. | R (9) 2/18 1:30am

8pm KQED + Jesse Owens: American Experience explores the athlete's life and his victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Olympics. | D | R (+) 2/18 2am

9pm KQED + Rise of the Black Pharaohs Archeologists discover indisputable evidence of an advanced African society in the heart of Sudan. | R (+) 2/18 3am

11pm KQED + Speakeasy Carlos Santana with Harry Belafonte. | R (+) 2/18 5am

Wednesday 18 EARLY 1:30am KQED 9 Spark A Sly View.

2am KQED + Jesse Owens: American Experience | D

3am KQED + Rise of the Black Pharaohs

5am KQED + Speakeasy Carlos Santana with Harry Belafonte.

Thursday 19 7am World Colored Frames Reflects on the last 50 years in African American art by exploring the experiences of artists. | R (World) 2/19 1pm

Friday 20 9pm KQED 9 American Masters August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand explores he legacy of August Wilson, from his roots as an activist to his work on Broadway. | R (9) 2/21 3am; (Life) 2/22 8pm; (World) 2/24 noon

10:30pm KQED 9 American Masters Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth chronicles the life of the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature. | R (9) 2/21 4:30am; (Life) 2/22 9:30pm

Saturday 21 EARLY 3am KQED 9 American Masters August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand. | R (Life) 2/22 8pm; (World) 2/24 noon

4:30am KQED 9 American Masters Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth. | R (Life) 2/22 9:30pm

2pm World Boy Scouts of Harlem 759 is a charming exploration of how the Boy Scouts change a group of boys from Harlem into young men.

3pm World POV Brooklyn Castle looks at how chess became a Brooklyn public school's unlikely inspiration for academic success.

4:30pm World Jesse Owens: Enduring Spirit examines the impact Owens had after he finished competing and his relationship with Ohio State.

5pm World Evening with Journalist Gwen Ifill discusses her childhood and her development as a television correspondent.

Sunday 22 EARLY 1am KQED 9 History Detectives Cromwell Dixon, Bartlett Sketchbook, Duke Ellington Plates.

1pm World Freedom Riders: American Experience chronicles the journey of the courageous band of civil rights activists in the Deep South in 1961. | D

3pm World Freedom Summer: American Experience More than 700 student volunteers joined organizers to combat white supremacy in Mississippi in 1964. | D

6pm KQED 9 Independent Lens Soul Food Junkies examines the benefits and consequences of the African American traditional soul food diet. | D EVENING 7pm KQED 9 In Performance at the White House The Motown Sound. | R (9) 2/23 1am

Monday 23 EARLY 1am KQED 9 In Performance at the White House The Motown Sound.

EVENING 10pm KQED 9 Independent Lens American Denial. Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 investigation of Jim Crow racism is used to explore unconscious biases. | D | R (9) 2/24 4am; (Life) 2/24 9pm; (World) 2/26 noon

11pm KQED 9 The Black Kungfu Experience | R (9) 2/24 5am; (Life) 2/24 10pm

Tuesday 24 EARLY 4am KQED 9 Independent Lens American Denial. | D | R (Life) 2/24 9pm; (World) 2/26 noon

5am KQED 9 The Black Kungfu Experience | R (Life) 2/24 10pm

11am World American Masters Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock and Roll.

EVENING 7:30pm KQED 9 Spark West Oakland. | R (9) 2/25 1:30am

Wednesday 25 EARLY 1:30am KQED 9 Spark West Oakland.

7am World Independent Lens Spies of Mississippi tells the story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation during the 1950s and 1960s. | R (World) 2/25 1pm, 2/28 5pm

10am Life Travelscope Rwanda — Among the Gorillas.

Thursday 26 7am World Black/White and Brown: Brown Versus the Board of Education of Topeka presents the stories of the individuals, events and circumstances surrounding the momentous ruling. | R (World) 2/26 1pm

8am World Locked Out: The Fall of Massive Resistance sheds light on Virginia's refusal to allow black students into all-white public schools in 1958.

10am Life Travelscope Rwanda — In Search of Chimpanzees.

Saturday 28 2pm World Klansville, U.S.A.: American Experience examines the reasons North Carolina became home to the largest Klan organization in America. | D

3pm World Editor and the Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan chronicles publisher Horace Carter's reporting on the Ku Klux Klan in the pre-civil rights era.

4pm World Evolution of the Nation of Islam chronicles the creation, rise and evolution of the Nation of Islam movement in black America.