The Wright Conversations_LaTosha Brown 020525
We are honored to share a powerful keynote from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History featuring LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund.
In her moving speech, LaTosha Brown speaks passionately about the importance of voting as a tool for social justice—particularly for African Americans and other disenfranchised communities. Her heartfelt remarks also explore the healing power of love in the face of grief and loss, reminding us all of the power of compassion and shared humanity.
As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s enduring legacy, let this speech be a reminder of the strength we gain from unity and action.
We have snow at the top of Humboldt Hill! Where else is it snowing here?!
How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.
TONIGHT (February 3rd) at 10pm, on KEET-TV and the livestream.
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: George Rodriguez
Born and raised in the border city of El Paso, TX, George Rodriguez creates highly ornamented ceramic sculptures, largely unified by a connection to sociopolitical themes. Drawing inspiration from his Mexican American upbringing and experience with global travel, his guardian figures, tomb sculptures, and installations commemorate and build community. Realized with ornamentation, humor, and reverence for heritage and celebration, his art aims to build bridges between cultures and across time.
Recent projects include a permanent installation at the new Kansas City International Airport, a community tile mural at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, and an outdoor public sculpture at CASA of Maryland, an immigration advocacy organization in Baltimore. His work has shown extensively throughout the U.S. including the Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Canton Art Museum, Canton, OH; amongst others.
Rodriguez’s sculptures are part of the collections of the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen College of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., and the National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. He was featured on PBS Craft in America’s “Storytellers” episode.
Rodriguez is an educator and assistant professor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia. His teaching extends beyond the university to engage diverse communities in collaborative building projects, such as tile murals and collectively designed large-scale sculpture. The interchange of ideas from teaching and mentorship recharges Rodriguez’s creative practice.
Presented in partnership with Institute for the Humanities. This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.
Series presenting partners: Detroit PBS, ALL ARTS, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.
This new four-part docuseries from Emmy nominated executive producer, host, and writer Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st centuries, and how it has shaped our nation by exploring the meaning behind those movements. What political or economic pressures inspire people to move? Is it more often inspired by hope or fear? Is there even such a thing as a promised land? The first episode is entitled “Exodus.”
FIRST EPISODE TONIGHT (January 28th) at 9pm on KEET-TV, and the livestream.
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Rashaad Newsome
Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices — collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming, and performance — to form an altogether new field. He seamlessly merges art, code, film, and community-building to create immersive experiences that explore the intersections of Blackness, queerness, and futurism. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between identity politics, social practice and abstraction.
Assembly, his groundbreaking exhibition and film, brings together dancers, artificial intelligence, animation, collage, sculpture, holography, and soundscapes to reimagine collective liberation. Central to this work is Being, the Digital Griot — an AI-powered entity that embodies radical storytelling. Acting as both mirror and provocateur, Being demonstrates AI’s potential as a tool for liberation rather than control.
Newsome will offer an in-depth exploration of the conceptual frameworks and processes behind Assembly and Being. He will discuss how his work dismantles systems of oppression and reimagines physical and digital spaces as arenas for liberation. Through dynamic storytelling, dance, and the collaboration between human and non-human performers, Newsome pushes artistic boundaries while sparking critical conversations about how art and technology can shape futures beyond binary thinking, paving the way for a more liberated world.
Newsome has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, including The Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, SFMOMA, New Orleans Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. He has received multiple honors and awards for his work, including a 2014 Headlands Center for the Arts Visiting Artist Residency, and a 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
In tandem with Newsome’s appearance i
Exploring Bipartisanship with the Attorney General Alliance | Seeking Common Ground: AI
Exploring Bipartisanship with the Attorney General Alliance highlights the collaborative efforts of Attorneys General across the United States to shape the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy. Presented by PBS Books, in partnership with the Bipartisanship Leadership Project and the Attorney General Alliance, this program showcases how bipartisan cooperation is essential to address the complex challenges AI presents.
As AI impacts public safety, privacy, and ethics, Attorneys General from both parties are working together to create policies that protect citizens, particularly vulnerable groups like children, while supporting innovation. Business journalist Michal Lev Ram sits down with Attorney General Aaron D. Ford (D) of Nevada and Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) of South Carolina to discuss the urgent need for AI regulation and why bipartisanship is key to crafting solutions that safeguard the public and keep pace with technological advancements.
PBS News will provide live coverage of the National Funeral Service for former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States.
January 9th starting at 6am on KEET-TV and the livestream.
Finding Your Roots - Season 11
For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.
TONIGHT (January 7th) at 8pm on KEET-TV, the livestream, and the PBS APP.
Carl the Collector | Filmmaker Talk with Zach OHora
Join PBS Books as we meet the newest member of the PBS Kids Family Carl the Collector and all his friends with show creator, author and illustrator Zach OHora. This new series, which premiered last fall, is the first PBS Kids program to center on a neurodiverse character. Learn more about Carl and all his adventures while celebrating the diverse way kids think and express themselves.
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and actress Sara Bareilles takes the stage at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra for an enchanting evening of song and celebration in this New Year's Eve special.
TONIGHT (December 31st) at 8pm on KEET-TV and the Livestream.
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