Learn about diverse and little-known American heroines from the early years of feminism, and the women who now follow in their footsteps, in honor of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage and Women’s Equality Day.
RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WARexplores the United States’ emergence from the Civil War and slavery, and the era’s thwarted vision for an interracial democracy that haunts the country more than 150 years later.
Using stories submitted through PBS AMERICAN PORTRAIT, Family of Us: An American Portrait Story paints a picture of families in America today and the way family defines us.
RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WARexplores the United States’ emergence from the Civil War and slavery, and the era’s thwarted vision for an interracial democracy that haunts the country more than 150 years later.
Join GPB’s Virginia Prescott for a live conversation with author Mab Segrest. The two will discuss Segrest’s new book, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum.
I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book that James Baldwin never finished and is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
On Monday, August 10, Governor Brian P. Kemp and Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey will join Vice Admiral Jerome M. Adams, U.S. Surgeon General and local leaders at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to announce a new partnership to expand COVID-19 testing in the Atlanta region.
The death of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brooks, among others, unleashed anger across the country. While it is a national conversation, solutions to creating equity and inclusive communities will be found locally, which require cities and their leaders to be at the forefront of creating change in their communities.
Georgia mayors, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Jim Thornton, Hardie Davis, and Robert Reichert, along with Georgia House Representative Calvin Smyre begin that statewide conversation around the issues of race, equity and inclusion, how these issues impact Georgia’s communities, and why and how city officials can make equity a priority in their communities.
The Georgia Municipal Association and GPB present Cities United: The Road to Equity and Inclusion.
Join GPB’s Virginia Prescott for a live discussion with author Grace Elizabeth Hale, Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia. The two will be discussing Hale’s latest book, Cool Town: How Athens GA Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture.
