Making Black America: Through the Grapevine.

Making Black America: Through the Grapevine

Chronicling the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people.

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UPCOMING EPISODES

Fri, 2/6 at 6:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 1

Exploring how free Black people in the North and South built towns, established schools and held conventions, creating networks to address the political, economic and social needs of the Black community.

Fri, 2/6 at 11:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 1

Exploring how free Black people in the North and South built towns, established schools and held conventions, creating networks to address the political, economic and social needs of the Black community.

Sat, 2/7 at 7:00 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 1

Exploring how free Black people in the North and South built towns, established schools and held conventions, creating networks to address the political, economic and social needs of the Black community.

Sat, 2/7 at 1:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 1

Exploring how free Black people in the North and South built towns, established schools and held conventions, creating networks to address the political, economic and social needs of the Black community.

Fri, 2/13 at 6:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 2

How Blacks created a community that sustained and empowered, from HBCUs to Black businesses and Harlem Renaissance to political organizations.

Fri, 2/13 at 11:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 2

How Blacks created a community that sustained and empowered, from HBCUs to Black businesses and Harlem Renaissance to political organizations.

Sat, 2/14 at 7:00 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 2

How Blacks created a community that sustained and empowered, from HBCUs to Black businesses and Harlem Renaissance to political organizations.

Sat, 2/14 at 1:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 2

How Blacks created a community that sustained and empowered, from HBCUs to Black businesses and Harlem Renaissance to political organizations.

Fri, 2/20 at 6:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 3

To survive economic disaster, Blacks rely on informal economies, grassroots organizations and cultural innovations to dismantle the realities of Jim Crow.

Fri, 2/20 at 11:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 3

To survive economic disaster, Blacks rely on informal economies, grassroots organizations and cultural innovations to dismantle the realities of Jim Crow.

Sat, 2/21 at 7:00 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 3

To survive economic disaster, Blacks rely on informal economies, grassroots organizations and cultural innovations to dismantle the realities of Jim Crow.

Sat, 2/21 at 1:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

Episode 3

To survive economic disaster, Blacks rely on informal economies, grassroots organizations and cultural innovations to dismantle the realities of Jim Crow.