Ken Burns, the preeminent documentary filmmaker of his generation, knows how to captivate audiences, whether it's with history or a quip. When he told hundreds of fans at a Wayne State University ...
One Detroit contributor Stephen Henderson of American Black Journal sits down with Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein.
The six-part, 12-hour series aims to bring depth and complexity to the founding of the United States by using 400 ...
A big year for Detroit’s WGPR-TV 62 and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. We're celebrating milestone anniversaries for two Detroit treasures. We’ll pay tribute to the 50-year ...
LGBTQ+ History Month has been observed each October since 1994, when Missouri high school history teacher Rodney Wilson proposed the idea. Wilson chose October to coincide with National Coming Out Day ...
Teresa Marbury participates in our “Destination Detroit” series. Before relocating to Detroit, Teresa Marbury’s maternal grandfather and his family were sharecroppers in Moorhead, Mississippi. In the ...
Produced on a “nutty timeline” for December pledge, the three-hour show is “a celebration of everything public television,” ...