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Making Black America: Through the Grapevine

PBS

Tue., Oct. 18 at 9PM on WKAR-HD 23.1 & STREAMING | Episode 3: To survive economic disaster, Black America relied on informal economies, grassroots organizations, and cultural innovations to dismantle the realities of Jim Crow.

MAKING BLACK AMERICA takes viewers into an extraordinary world that showcases Black people’s ability to collectively prosper, defy white predominance, and define Blackness in ways that transformed America itself.

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