"Inside TV Land: African Americans in Television" Sunday, February 15, 2004, 10:30 - 11:30 p.m., (EST, PST)
The cable television network concludes their excellent three part series with a look at African Americans role in front of and behind the camera throughout the history of television. This final episode focuses on African Americans and variety programs. The series is narrated by veteran African American actor Ron Glass ("Barney Miller").
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Showtime presents "Crown Heights" Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. (EST/PST)
Based on a true story, this film tells the story of two men, one Jewish, the other African American, who band together in 1991 Brooklyn, NY to help ease the racial tension after an African-American boy is run down in a car driven by a Hasidic Jew. Mario Van Peebles plays Paul Richards, a local community leader who runs the Youth Collective Center. Howie Mandel plays Rabbi Dr. David "Laz" Lazerson.
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PBS presents "Hoxie: The First Stand" Monday, February 16, 2004 10 - 11:00 pm
In 1955 this small Arkansas town voluntarily integrated their schools. Outside forces used this event as a catalyst for the growing southern movement to defy the Supreme Court's famous Brown v. Board of Education decision which began the desegregation of the south. Though overshadowed by the more famous incidents of Central High and the Little Rock Nine, the event remains an important part of our history.
PBS presents "Independent Lens" "A Place of Our Own" Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10 - 11:00 pm
This film examines the seldom seen world of the black middle class and the town of Oak Bluff's on Martha's Vineyard. Director Stanley Nelson revisits the place where his father established a summer home for Nelson and his family.
PBS presents "American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till"
This film examines the story of 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American boy who was sadistically murdered for whistling at a white woman in a Mississippi store in 1955. The killers were later acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury.
For more information on these PBS programs, please visit http://www.pbs.org/
This Week in Television History: February 16, 1950: The classic game show "What's My Line" debuts on CBS. The format was a simple and very successful one. Contestants were asked "yes" or "no" questions by a panel of famous panelists who would then try to guess the unusual career of the contestant.
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