Next week, we’ll celebrate life and love with titans of gospel, explore the mysterious origins of the ancient Rapanui people, creators of Easter Island’s giant stone heads, and much more. Take a look at what’s coming up!
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Enjoy the songs of the internationally beloved tenor’s 2020 album recorded on location in Malta. Selections performed include “Gratia Plena,” a duet with Cecilia Bartoli and new interpretations of “Ave Maria” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Find out how you can experience Andrea Bocelli live in February.
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This concert focuses on messages of humanity, peace and love. The program features the five-time Grammy-winning Blind Boys of Alabama with conductor Dr. Henry Panion, III, and a full symphony orchestra. Featuring a combined choir from Alabama's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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Following a cancer diagnosis, a wisecracking Catholic nun chooses to live as she’s dying. In this touching end-of-life documentary, the self-proclaimed “leader of the misfits” plans her funeral in her last nine months to live.
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Shorebirds fly thousands of miles each year along ancient and largely unknown migratory routes called Flyways. Follow conservationists and scientists who are racing against the clock to understand and save these shorebirds.
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The giant stone heads of Easter Island have inspired theories for centuries. Now, new research reveals intriguing evidence of the origins and inspirations of the ancient Rapanui people who created the iconic monoliths.
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When celebrated American novelist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor died at the age of 39 in 1964, she left behind an unfinished third novel titled "Why Do the Heathen Rage?" Scholarly experts uncovered and studied the material, deeming it unpublishable. It stayed that way for 40 years. Until now.
Join Peter and Orlando as they explore, along with author Jessica Hooten Wilson, the lessons and the what-might-have-beens of "Why Do the Heathen Rage?"
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This week on the Georgia Today podcast, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is called to testify over claims she had an improper relationship with a special prosecutor, a Georgia Army reservist killed in Jordan this week is honored in her hometown of Savannah and more. Listen and subscribe.
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From the blues to hip hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. Musical styles come and go, but there's one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage and wisdom on any given Sunday. GOSPEL, the latest history series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., digs deep into the origin story of Black spirituality through sermon and song.
In celebration of the upcoming series, we'd like to highlight some of the great stories in the last few years that focused on gospel music.
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Beyond the Lights, hosted by Hannah Goodin, is a special edition of the Football Fridays in Georgia podcast. Pulling back the curtain and finding out what really goes on into making high school sports in Georgia special. Today's guest is the head coach of the most dominant program in any sport in the state of Georgia, Southeast Bulloch Head Flag Football Coach Marci Cochran. Listen now.
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Black History Month is celebrated each year in the United States during February to coincide with the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln on February 12 and Frederick Douglass on February 14. Here are resources to help teach students about the significant events and people in African-American history in the United States
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