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Making Black America: Through the Grapevine

Airing on MPT

Friday, February 3 at 9pm
Hour one details how African Americans have created spaces for survival, pleasure and joy.

Friday, February 3 at 10pm
Hour two explores the nation within a nation built by Black Americans out of necessity.

Friday, February 10 at 9pm
Hour three uncovers vast social networks created by Black Americans to defeat Jim Crow.

Friday, February 10 at 10pm
From Black Power to Black Twitter hour four reveals safe spaces created by Black America.

Trailer

Making Black America showcases Black people’s ability to define Blackness in America.

About the program

Despite the gains of legal desegregation, all Black political and cultural movements, from Black Power to Black Twitter, provide a safe space for a community driven by class, sexuality and generational divisions to debate, organize and celebrate.