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: American Masters 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: American Experience 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 Fishbone. 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 record label features stars from Motown's golden age. | R (9) 2/22 7pm, 2/23 1am 8pm Life Great Performances 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.