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VOL 30, ISSUE 2 / FEBRUARY 2021 HOSTED BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Tue 16th & 23rd, 9 p.m. thirteen.org 1 The first episode explores the roots of African American religion, beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Afri- cans preserved and adapted their faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation. Gospel legend Yolanda Adams The second episode examines how the Black church expanded its reach to HIGHER GROUND address social inequality and minister “This series comes at a time in our The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song to those in need, from the Jim Crow country when the very things our African Tue 16th and 23rd, 9 p.m. South to the civil rights movement in American ancestors struggled and died the 1950s and ‘60s. It also looks at African for—faith and freedom, justice and equal- American faith communities on the front- ity, democracy and grace—all are on the FOR MANY, THE BLACK CHURCH is of Christianity that was their own and lines of hope and change during the line,” says Gates. “No social institution their house of worship. For some, it is also a redemptive force for a nation whose renewed struggle for racial justice in in the Black community is more central ground zero for social justice. For others, original sin was found in their ancestors’ America today. and important than the Black church.” it is a place of transcendent cultural enslavement across the Middle Passage. gifts exported to the world, from the soulful voices of preachers and congre- gants to the sublime sounds of gospel American Experience: Voice of Freedom music. Renowned Harvard professor Mon 15th, 9 p.m. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, African ON EASTER SUNDAY, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson , stepped up to a microphone at the Lincoln Memorial. Barred American Lives Black America Since Pentecostal church members MLK: And Still I Rise) traces the 400- from performing in Constitution Hall because of her race, year history of this remarkable social Anderson would sing for the American people in the open institution in The Black Church: This Is Singers John Legend and Jennifer air. Hailed as a voice that “comes around once in a hundred Our Story, This Is Our Song, premiering Hudson; Presiding Bishop Michael Curry years” by maestros in Europe and celebrated by both white this month on THIRTEEN. of The Episcopal Church; gospel legends and Black audiences at home, her fame hadn’t spared her The two-part series, executive pro- Yolanda Adams, Pastor Shirley Caesar, from the indignities and violence of racism and segregation. duced, hosted, and written by Dr. Gates, and BeBe Winans; civil rights leader Rev. This film interweaves Anderson’s rich life story with this landmark moment in history, exploring fundamental questions Arriving at examines the vital role the Black William Barber II; and scholar Cornel Idlewild Airport, 1968. church has played in shaping West are among the notable figures about talent, race, fame, democracy, and the American soul. the Black American experi- sharing insights. ence, revealing how Black “The Black church was more than just people have wor - a spiritual home. It was the epicenter of shipped, and through Black life. Out of it came our Black busi- their spiritual jour- nesses, our Black educational institutions,” neys, improvised ways Rev. Al Sharpton observes in the series. to bring their faith tradi- “The church gave people a sense of tions from Africa to the value, belonging, and worthiness. I don’t New World while trans- know how we could have survived as a Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial. Easter Sunday, 1939. lating them into a form people without it,” adds Oprah Winfrey. OF CONGRESS. BELL, LIBRARY MURIEL AND MALCOLM BY PHOTOGRAPH OF CONGRESS; MEDIA; LIBRARY MCGEE BOTTOM): TO (TOP OF PBS. THIS PAGE COURTESY COVER: PHOTO. STOCK ARCHIVE/ALAMY HISTORY WORLD PHOTO; STOCK PRESS/ALAMY MEDIA; KEYSTONE MCGEE BOTTOM): TO (TOP OPPOSITE Praise house at Sapelo Island, Georgia, circa 1939 2 thirteen.org 3 EVENING AND NIGHT 9:00 The Jazz 3 WEDNESDAY 2/04 EARLY THU AM To view the monthly program guide on our website, visit thirteen.org/schedule Ambassadors The Cold 12:00 MetroFocus [R] and click on “Program Guide.” War and the civil rights 5:00 BBC World News 12:30 One-on-One With movement collided Outside Source Steve Adubato when Dizzy Gillespie, 5:30 NJ Spotlight News 1:00 Finding Your Roots [R] “Celebrating Black 5:00 Lidia Celebrates Louis Armstrong, Duke With Briana Vannozzi 2:00 The Jazz Ambassadors SYMBOL KEY Americana” America: A Salute to Ellington, and Benny 6:00 MetroFocus SEE 2ND, 9PM. [R] 10:00 Independent First Responders Goodman took their 6:30 BBC World News 3:00 Frontline Premiere Lens: “9to5: The Story of music to the Soviet Union. America 4:00 Independent Lens [R] a Movement” Dolly REPEATS 4TH, 2AM. 7:00 PBS NewsHour Our productions Parton’s hit song tells the 2 TUESDAY 8:00 Nature: “Pumas: Aired earlier tale of an actual Legends of the Ice 4 THURSDAY this month movement begun by a 5:00 BBC World News Mountains” Travel to the To be announced group of Boston Outside Source mountains of Chile for an 5:00 BBC World News secretaries in the 1970s. 5:30 NJ Spotlight News encounter with the elusive Outside Source REPEATS 4TH, 4AM. With Briana Vannozzi predator. 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America 2:00 The Long Song on roots of actor Jane Lynch 12:30 One-on-One With “The Missing Lynx” The REPEATS 7TH, 11AM. 7:00 PBS NewsHour Masterpiece [R] and comedian Jim Steve Adubato Iberian lynx—the rarest cat 8:30 70s Soul Superstars 8:00 Antiques 3:00 Miss Scarlet and the Gaffigan, revealing the 1:00 Brain Secrets [R] in the world—is flourishing Legends of Motown, R&B, Roadshow: “Vintage Duke on Masterpiece Irish American 3:00 Migraine Solution once again. REPEATS 5TH, 3AM. and soul in joyous Tucson 2021, Hour 2” Mystery! [R] experience through their 4:30 NOVA: “Mysteries of 11:00 Amanpour and reunion. Patti LaBelle 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: 4:00 Before We Die [R] families. REPEATS 4TH, 1AM. Sleep” [R] Company hosts. REPEATS 6TH, 1AM; Independent Lens: 9to5: The Story of a Movement Nature: Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains Mon 1st, 10 p.m. Wed 3rd, 8 p.m. • pbs.org/nature WHEN DOLLY PARTON SANG “9 TO 5,” she was IN A HIDDEN REALM at the end of the world, singing the true story of a movement that started amidst the massive mountains of Chile’s Torres with 9to5, a group of Boston secretaries who fought del Paine National Park, condors soar, colorful for better pay, more advancement opportunities, caracaras search for prey, graceful guanacos and an end to sexual harassment in the early 1970s. roam, and vivid pink flamingos make a theatrical Their unconventional approach attracted the press appearance. But this kingdom is the stronghold and shamed their bosses into change. Interviews of the puma, the area’s biggest, most elusive with 9to5’s founders, Jane Fonda, and others capture predator. Discover how this mountain lion survives this previously untold story of the fight that changed and follow the dramatic fate of a puma mother the American workplace. and her cubs. Uma Thurman narrates. RICHARD BERMACK NICOLAS LAGOS, © TERRA MATER FACTUAL STUDIOS GMBH & WILDLIFE FILMS 4 thirteen.org 5 EVENING AND NIGHT 7TH, 3:30PM; AND 8TH, 3AM. his music from Star Wars. 7 SUNDAY With Briana Vannozzi 8:00 Finding Your REPEATS 12TH, 1AM. 11:00 Amanpour and REPEATS 9TH, 5AM. 6:00 MetroFocus Roots: “The Shirts on 9:00 Beyond the Company 11:00 Amanpour and 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:30 BBC World News Their Backs” Host Henry Elements on NOVA: Company Weekend With Hari America Louis Gates, Jr. with “Indestructible” The 2/05 EARLY FRI AM Sreenivasan. 7:00 PBS NewsHour guests Tony Shalhoub search for key molecules 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 2/06 EARLY SAT AM 6:30 MetroFocus 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: and Christopher Meloni. that paved the way for 12:30 One-on-One With 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 7:00 Lucy Worsley’s Royal “Vintage Orlando, Hour 1” REPEATS 11TH, 1AM. life in the universe. (Part Steve Adubato 12:30 One-on-One With Myths & Secrets: “Elizabeth 9:00 American Experience: 2 of 3) REPEATS 12TH, 2AM. 1:00 Nature SEE 3RD, 8PM. Steve Adubato I: The Warrior Queen” “Goin’ Back to T-Town” The 10:00 Europe’s New Wild: [R] 1:00 70s Soul Superstars [R] Visit locations across extraordinary history of “Return of the Titans” The 2:00 Beyond the 3:30 Brain Secrets [R] Britain and Europe where Greenwood, a successful Black European bison returns to Elements on NOVA [R] royal history was made.