POV/Whose Streets? | 13 Masterpiece/Endeavour | 15 WGBH News Names New Head | 26 wgbh.org ON AIR, ONLINE, ON THE GO MEMBER GUIDE | AUGUST 2020 Legacy of Love SHARE YOUR SCREEN TIME Between work and online schooling, parents and kids have been anchored to a lot of screens lately. But with the PBS App, you and your child can untether yourselves from your everyday life and head on a new journey. You can share their PBS Kids favorites, take an underwater adventure on Nature, or visit the wonders of the galaxy on NOVA. So what are you waiting for? PBS VIDEO Get started at pbs.org/videoapp APP Where to Tune in From the President TV Coming Together s work is scheduled to begin on a Boston Common A memorial honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Digital broadcast FiOS RCN Cox Charter TV YouTube Comcast King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King, we are reminded that they met in WGBH 2 2.3 2 2 2 2 2 * our city as students and became partners for life in the civil rights movement. WGBH 2 HD 2.1 802 502 602 1002 782 n/a In Legacy of Love (page 13), Boston-based filmmaker Roberto Mighty recounts the story of how the couple fell in love in the 1950s when he was WGBX 44 44.2 16 44 14 804 21 n/a studying at Boston University and she was at the New England Conservatory WGBX 44 HD 44.1 801 544 n/a n/a n/a n/a of Music. The film, narrated World 2.2 956 473 94 807 181 n/a by the Rev. Liz Walker, fea- Create 44.3 959 474 95 805 182 n/a tures never-before-seen inter- WGBH Kids 44.4 958 472 93 n/a 180 * views with living witnesses, Boston Kids & n/a 22 n/a 3 n/a n/a n/a interactive storytelling, Family (Boston only) immersive new media, and Channel numbers and availability may vary by community. Contact your provider for graphic animation all docu- more information. menting the Kings’ journey Comcast subscribers can access selected WGBH programs on WGBH On Demand. together toward racial justice. Go to Comcast 1, choose Get Local, then Local Networks. For more programs, Dr. King went on to make go to Comcast 1 and choose History & Nature, then PBS-WGBH. history in August 1963, when *WGBH 2 and WGBH Kids are broadcast simultaneously on YouTube TV. he gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington. This month we present two other films that commemorate August anniversaries that sadly haunt our nation. On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by Radio a white police officer, sparking protests in Ferguson, Missouri. And on August 89.7 WGBH, Boston’s Local NPR® 12, 2017, an avowed white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of people wgbhnews.org who had been peacefully protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia. 89.7 HD1 Whose Streets? from POV (page 13) describes how a community reached Jazz 24/7 Online on wgbh.org/jazz247 a breaking point following Brown’s death and joined together to work for 99.5 WCRB racial justice. Charlottesville (page 13) grapples with the difficult question of classicalwcrb.org 99.5 Boston-NH, 89.7 HD2 Boston, 96.3 Beacon Hill, 88.7 Providence, how acts spurred by hate can still happen in modern America. 90.1 HD2 Cape and Islands As the country’s largest producer of public media programs, we have a WCAI Cape, Coast and Islands NPR® Station responsibility to unequivocally stand against racism and inequity. Last month, capeandislands.org WGBH launched a multiplatform effort called The State of Race, in partnership 90.1 Martha’s Vineyard, 91.1 Nantucket, 94.3 Brewster, 89.7 HD3 with the NAACP Boston chapter and The Boston Globe, to explore issues All stations are available for streaming on wgbh.org/radio. affecting Black communities in Massachusetts (see back cover). We are also dedicating additional hours of programs every Sunday evening to offer an even wider range of films about experiences of Black Americans. Black lives matter. 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