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WGTE FM and TV
Celebrate Black History Month with "Moments of the Movement,
"Toledo Stories" and New Specials
WGTE Public Media marks Black History Month 2014 with a
daily series on WGTE FM 91 and a new one-hour radio
documentary, as well as two acclaimed "Toledo Stories
documentaries and three new specials on WGTE TV.
Black History Month Highlights on WGTE FM include:
MOMENTS OF THE MOVEMENT: "Civil Rights and Change in
America"
Weekdays at 7:35 a.m. during NPR's "Morning Edition" and
weekend mornings at 8:35 a.m. during "Weekend Edition,"
February 1 through 28, 2014.
Each day, listeners will take a remarkable journey as foot
soldiers and leaders from the Civil Rights Movement tell
their
consequential narratives and
testimonials.
In October 2010, the Library of Congress and the National
Museum of African History and Culture embarked on a mission
to capture a rich and detailed history of our nation’s Civil
Rights Movement. They collected hundreds of hours of
never-before-broadcast video and audio recordings of the
personal histories and testimonials of individuals – many of
whom are unheralded – who participated in the movement. The
result is “Moments
of the Movement” –
28 inspirational segments that help listeners better
understand and appreciate the sacrifices made to raise our
nation to new heights of equality.
CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA: "Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall and
Beyond"
Friday, February 28, 2014, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Charles
Dutton, this one-hour radio special examines
the relevance and meaning of civil rights in the 21st
century and the relationship between the Civil Rights
Movement and the efforts of women, other people of color and
the LGBT community to expand our traditional definitions of
equality. Like “Moments
of the Movement” it
features first-person narratives culled from hundreds of
hours of never-before-broadcast video and audio footage to
provide a rich, detailed history of the nation during an
important and tumultuous period.
Black History Month Highlights on WGTE TV include:
TOLEDO STORIES: "The African Americans"
Thursday, February 6, 2014, 8:00-9:00 p.m.
Viewers will learn about Ella P. Stewart, the first
practicing black pharmacist in the country; LeMaxie Glover,
a nationally-recognized sculptor who taught art in the
Toledo Public Schools; and Art Tatum, the legendary jazz
musician from Toledo. The program includes recollections
from more contemporary African American leaders. |
Alice Walker
Art Tatum
Chuck Ealey
LeMaxie Glover |
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TOLEDO STORIES: "Undefeated: The Chuck Ealey Story"
Thursday, February 13, 2014, 8:00-9:00 p.m.
This Emmy Award-winning film profiles Chuck Ealey, the famed
University of Toledo quarterback, whose record of victories
still stands today. The documentary also captures the mood
of a community and nation in the 1960s and 70s.
POV: "American Promise”
Monday, February 3, 2014, 10:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.
“American Promise”
spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson,
middle-class African American parents in Brooklyn, New York,
turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend,
Seun, who make their way through Manhattan’s Dalton School,
one of the most prestigious private schools in the country.
Chronicling the boys’ divergent paths from kindergarten
through high school graduation, this intimate documentary
presents complicated truths about America’s struggle to come
of age on issues of race, class and opportunity. Winner,
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award, 2013 Sundance Film
Festival
AMERICAN MASTERS “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”
Friday, February 7, 2014, 9:00-10:30 p.m.
Most famous for her seminal novel The Color Purple,
writer/activist Alice Walker was born February 9, 1944, into
a family of sharecroppers in rural Georgia. She came of age
during the violent racism and seismic social changes of
mid-20th-century America. Her mother, poverty and
participation in the Civil Rights Movement were the
formative influences on her consciousness, becoming the
inherent themes in her writing. The first African-American
woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Walker continues
to shine a light on global human rights issues. Her dramatic
life is told with poetry and lyricism,
and includes interviews with Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover,
Quincy Jones, Howard Zinn, Gloria Steinem, Sapphire, and
Walker herself.
INDEPENDENT LENS “Spies of Mississippi”
Monday, February 10, 2014, 10:00-11:00 p.m.
View the story of a secret spy agency formed during the
1950s and 60s by the state of Mississippi to preserve
segregation and maintain white supremacy. Over a decade, the
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission employed a network
of investigators and informants, including African
Americans, to help infiltrate the NAACP, Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC). They were granted broad powers to
investigate private citizens and organizations, keep secret
files, make arrests and compel testimony. The program tracks
the commission’s hidden role in important chapters of the
Civil Rights Movement, including the integration of the
University of Mississippi, the trial of Medgar Evers and the
KKK murders of three civil rights workers in 1964.
For more information:
Jamie A. Pierman,
419-380-4646 or jamie_pierman@wgte.org
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