Black History Month

Thursday, February 1

8:30pm – Come By Here: A History of Five Churches

9pm – The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song (Part 1)

Friday, February 2

4pm – Wylie Avenue Days

9pm – American Masters: Little Richard: The Kind and Queen of Rock and Roll

Saturday, February 3

9pm – The Long Song on MASTERPIECE (Part 1)

Sunday, February 4

12:30pm – Freedom House Ambulance: The First Responders

1pm – Return to the Roots of Civil Rights

1:30pm – The Good Fight

2pm – We Knew what We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told

3pm – Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion: American Stories

4pm – The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights

5pm – The Dream Whisperer

Tuesday, February 6

12am – Civil Rights: Witnesses to History

9pm – American Masters: How It Feels To Be Free

Wednesday, February 7

3pm – The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights

4pm – The Dream Whisperer

Thursday, February 8

8pm – Flyboys: Western Pennsylvania’s’ Tuskegee Airmen

9pm – The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song (Part 2)

Friday, February 9

9pm – Gospel LIVE! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

10pm – Shuttlesworth

Saturday, February 10

9pm – The Long Song on MASTERPIECE (Part 2)

Sunday, February 11

12pm – Barbershops: PA Stylin’

1pm – A Force for Change: Esther Bush and the Urban League

1:30pm – WQED Mini Docs: Musical Mentors

2pm – Torchbearers

Monday, February 12

7:30pm – Memories of the March

9pm – Gospel: The Gospel Train/The Golden Age of Gospel (Part 1)

Tuesday, February 13

12am – Memories of the March

7:30pm – Come By Here: A History of Five Churches

8pm – Finding Your Roots: The Brick Wall Falls

9pm – Gospel: Take the Message Everywhere/Gospel’s Second Century (Part 2)

Wednesday, February 14

2pm – Finding Your Roots: The Brick Wall Falls

3pm – Gospel: The Gospel Train/The Golden Age of Gospel (Part 1)

10pm – Secrets of the Dead: The Woman in the Iron Coffin

Thursday, February 15

3pm – Gospel: Take the Message Everywhere/Gospel’s Second Century (Part 2)

8pm – Freedom House Ambulance: The First Responders

8:30pm – The Good Fight

9pm – Making Black American through the Grapevine (Part 1)

10pm – Making Black American through the Grapevine (Part 2)

Friday, February 16

4pm – Return to the Roots of Civil Rights

4:30pm – WQED Mini Docs: Musical Mentors

10:30pm – Gospel LIVE! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Saturday, February 17

9pm – The Long Song on MASTERPIECE (Part 3)

Sunday, February 18

12pm – Make a Joyful Noise

1pm – Gospel: The Gospel Train/The Golden Age of Gospel (Part 1)

2pm – Gospel: Take the Message Everywhere/Gospel’s Second Century (Part 2)

Monday, February 19

7:30pm – WQED Mini Docs: The Photographers

Tuesday, February 20

12:30am – WQED Mini Docs: The Photographers

Wednesday, February 21

3pm – Shuttlesworth

4pm – Wes Bound: The Genius of Wes Montgomery

Thursday, February 22

8pm – Wylie Avenue Days

9pm – Making Black American through the Grapevine (Part 3)

10pm – Making Black American through the Grapevine (Part 4)

Friday, February 23

4pm – Flyboys: Western Pennsylvania’s Tuskegee Airmen

Monday, February 26

7:30pm – Woodworkers of Western Pennsylvania

Thursday, February 29

8pm – Jim Crow Pennsylvania

Madame Dawson’s Opera Company
Preservationists are working to save the grand old Victorian home on Apple Street in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood – and for good reason.

Come By Here: A History of Five Churches

These are the histories of five of them: a church with ties to the Underground Railroad.

Return to the Roots of Civil Rights
See the journey of four Western Pennsylvanians in 2006 as they made their way from one Civil Rights milestone to another on an eight day trip.

Civil Rights: Witnesses To History

WQED shares the unforgettable memories and rare photographs of Civil Rights era activists.

Torchbearers
Revisit Pittsburgh’s struggles during the so-called golden era of civil rights, and meet many of the men and women who lit the way for the generations that followed.

Nazi Olympics

Most know the 1936 Olympics, held in Nazi Germany, for the amazing feats of African American athlete Jessie Owens, but these Olympics held many more surprises.