This documentary explores African American artistic forms like the Blues, Spirituals, Spoken Word, Preaching, Comedy and Hip Hop to reveal a story about the creative use of African American Language and its function as a tool for survival, liberation and belonging within the Black Community.

Were trees intentionally planted to exclude and segregate a Black neighborhood? In this documentary, racial tensions ignite in Palm Springs, California, over a fight to remove a wall of trees that form a barrier believed to exclude a community.

Explore the rise of the German American Bund, a 1930s organization of American Nazis. With chapters across the country, the Bund represented what experts believe was a “very real threat of fascist subversion in the United States.”

FRONTLINE correspondent Ramita Navai investigates militants in the West Bank and Lebanon, their ties to Iran and their role in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. 

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Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals the unexpected family trees of his guests uncovering deep secrets, hidden identities and lost ancestors.

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Dan Sinykin details how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction and literary form and reveals how conglomeration has shaped what kinds of books and writers are published. Peter and Orlando explore a conversation with the author and discuss underrated and "weird" books from nonprofit publishing houses. 

This week on the Georgia Today podcast, Georgia Democrats make an effort to keep Donald Trump's name off of the Georgia ballot, Spelman College has received its largest-ever donation and it has been 30 years since the EPA listed parts of Georgia's coast on its 'most contaminated' list. When will it be cleaned up? Listen and subscribe.

When Salvation South editor Chuck Reece launched his online magazine about the South, he did not expect it to attract so many writers of poetry. And the sad truth was, Chuck didn’t know much about poetry in the first place. But thanks to those writers, he’s developed a keen appreciation for Southern poems. Here he is to share that appreciation with you in this week's commentary.

Calling all young writers! Georgia Public Broadcasting invites all Georgia students in kindergarten through third grade to create an excellent story, illustrate it and enter it in our PBS KIDS Writers Contest.

Stories can be fact or fiction, poetry or prose, or graphic novel and will be judged on originality, creative expression, storytelling and integration of illustrations. A first, second and third place will be chosen from each grade level. Read more.

Best-selling author, humorist and NPR contributor, David Sedaris, is coming to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta for one night only, April 9, 2024! With your support of GPB you’ll receive a pair of tickets to the show and join us for an exclusive GPB pre-show reception. Sedaris will read from all-new writings and recollections, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Click here to reserve your seats for An Evening with David Sedaris on Tuesday, April 9th at 7:30 p.m. We hope to see you there!