Celebrates
Black History Month February 2014
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth The compelling story of an extraordinary woman — artist, activist and author of The Color Purple. Friday, February 7, at 9pm on KQED 9.
Kimberly Bryant, a biotechnology and engineering professional, founded San Francisco–based Black Girls Code in 2011 as a way to close the digital divide for girls of color. Her organization has trained more than 1,500 girls to work in technology fields such as robotics, video game design, mobile phone application development and computer programming. Bryant aims to reach 1 million girls by 2040. Bryant was one of 11 people to receive the 2013 White House Champions of Change for Tech Inclusion Award. The award celebrates people in the United States “who are doing extraordinary things to expand technology opportunities for young learners — especially minorities, women and girls and others from communities historically underserved or underrepresented in tech fields.”
Gina Fromer is district vice president at the YMCA in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunter’s Point. Fromer was born and raised in Bayview and has more than 35 years of experience working with children and adolescents in different local organizations. During her time at the YMCA, she found and addressed three major issues with the youth of the neighborhood: literacy, obesity and truancy. After discovering that Bayview has the highest truancy rate in the city, Fromer spearheaded the Center for Academic Reentry and Empowerment — an academic recovery program that helps children and youth realize the value of education and ensures that truants are able to go back to school, improve academically and eventually graduate. Fromer was recently recognized with the Jefferson Award for Public Service, a local award for outstanding contributions to the community.
This is Us Northern California is known for stunning natural beauty, and it’s also home to some of the most fascinating people in the country. This is Us profiles remarkable, barrier-breaking individuals who’ve made our area the special place it is while influencing the world beyond. We invite you to watch these and other amazing stories. Teresa Deloach-Reed, sworn in last year as Oakland’s new fire chief, the first African American woman to head up a major metropolitan fire department. Les Williams, the first African American to become a bomber pilot and one of the few surviving Tuskegee Airmen. Eddie Gale, San Jose’s “Ambassador of Jazz.”
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Photos: (cover) Alice Walker, activist and author of The Color Purple, courtesy Ana Elena. (this page, This is Us, Teresa Deloach-Reed (bottom l. to r.) Les Williams, Eddie Gale, no credit.
Honor the richness and diversity of the greater San Francisco Bay Area by celebrating Black History Month with KQED and Union Bank.
View or download the complete schedule of Black History Month programs. kqed.org/heritage
Watch all of KQED’s Black History Month videos. youtube.com/kqed
KQED 9 is available over the air on DT9.1, 54.2 and 25.1; via most cable systems on Channel 9; on XFINITY cable Channel 709; and via satellite on DirecTV (local and HD Channel 9) and DISH network (local Channel 8226 in SD only). KQED Plus is available over the air on Channel 54, DT54.1, 9.2 and 25.2. It is on XFINITY cable Channel 10 and in HD on 710 and on DirecTV (Channel 54, SD and HD) and DISH (Channel 54 or 8234) satellite systems.
Friday, February 7, 9pm on KQED 9
POV: American Promise Monday, February 3, 10pm on KQED 9
Truly CA: A Lovely Day Sunday, February 9, 6pm on KQED 9
Independent Lens: Spies of Mississippi Monday, February 10, 10pm on KQED 9
The Education of Harvey Gantt Tuesday, February 11, 11pm on KQED 9
American Masters: James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket Sunday, February 23, 6pm on KQED 9
This is Us: Belva Davis Wednesday, February 26, 7pm on KQED Plus
Most famous for her seminal novel The Color Purple, writer-activist Alice Walker celebrates her 70th birthday this month. The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Walker continues to shine a light on global human rights issues. This new film recounts her dramatic life with poetry and lyricism and includes interviews with Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover, Quincy Jones, Howard Zinn, Gloria Steinem, Sapphire and Walker herself.
For 13 years, middle-class African American parents in Brooklyn, NY, filmed their son and his best friend as they made their way through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country.
A film about resilience, hope and hip-hop, A Lovely Day documents the ordeals and achievements of a group of young Oakland rappers embarking on a six-month journey to find their voices, skills and a path to healing.
Learn the story of a secret spy agency formed during the 1950s and 1960s by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain white supremacy.
In 1963, Harvey Gantt won a lawsuit against Clemson and was peacefully admitted to the college, making him the first African American student to attend a formerly all-white school in South Carolina.
American Masters recounts the life, works and beliefs of the late writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin — what it is to be born black, impoverished, gifted and gay in a world that has yet to understand that “all men are brothers.”
Belva Davis is a Bay Area television icon. Over a career that spans close to 50 years, she’s earned a reputation for grace, for the relentless pursuit of the truth and the very best in broadcast journalism. Follow her remarkable journey.
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Photos: (top to bottom) Alice Walker, courtesy Scott Campbell; Idris and Seun, courtesy of Michèle Stephenson; A Lovely Day, courtesy Kerri Gawryn; Medgar Evers surrounded by police, courtesy Corbis; Harvey Gantt, courtesy South Carolina ETV; James Baldwin in 1965, courtesy Sedat Pakay Belva Davis; courtesy KQED.
In February, KQED proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with special Black History Month programming on KQED 9 and KQED Plus (+), as well as KQED Life and KQED World.
American Masters: Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Black History Month 2014
KQED Public Television Highlights
KQED in the Community
An Afternoon with Basquiat Friday, February 7 UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley 2-2:30pm Viewing of BAM collection 2:30-3:30pm Film screening 3:30-4pm Panel discussion Free Please RSVP at Eventbrite.com.
Photos: (top to bottom) Still from Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, an Arthouse Films release 2010, photo courtesy Lee Jaffe; Courtesy A Lovely Day. White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality, Flip Schulke/ CORBIS; Al Letson, courtesy Agnes Lopez.
KQED Black History Month Celebration Thursday, February 27 African American Arts Cultural Complex, Hall of Culture, 3rd floor 762 Fulton St., San Francisco
Join KQED and the University of California at Berkeley’s African American Studies department and History of Art Undergraduate Association for a special Black History Month event. Following a viewing of the museum’s collection of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Layla Ali, Sanford Biggers, Lyle Ashton Harris, Margo Humphrey, Rashid Johnson, Martin Puryear, Elisabeth Sunday and Fred Wilson, selections of the Basquait biopic The Radiant Child will be screened. Post-screening discussion panelists will include Jordana Moore Saggese, author of Reading Basquiat; artist Robbie Conal and professors UC Berkeley’s African American Studies department.
KQED, in partnership with the African American Art Cultural Complex, is proud to celebrate Black History month with an evening honoring local heroes who are doing exceptional work in the community. The celebration will also include youth performances and a screening of the Truly CA film A Lovely Day, about resilience, hope and hip-hop.
6:30-8:30pm Free Please RSVP at Eventbrite.com.
KQED Public Radio KQED Public Radio is available on frequencies 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento (KQEI), 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez. It is also available on XFINITY digital cable 960 and live online at kqed.org.
State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement Wednesday, February 5, 8pm Saturday, February 8, 2pm
State of the Re:Union with Al Letson Leadership from the Bottom Up Wednesday, February 12, 8pm Saturday, February 15, 2pm
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Using newly discovered archival audio, along with oral histories and contemporary interviews, State of Siege brings to light the extraordinary tactics whites in Mississippi used to battle integration. Their strategies ranged from organizing a massive network of citizen councils to promote white supremacy to establishing a state-run spy agency to disrupt civil rights activism.
The State of the Re:Union shines the spotlight on the next generation of grassroots leaders in the African American community. Having traveled the country for five years, the program has seen the emergence of African American leaders pushing to make change — people we may never hear about because they aren’t on talk shows or leading national causes.