Smiley claims PBS made mistake in ouster, but PBS fires back
Tavis Smiley has defended himself from allegations he had sexual relationships with subordinates and created an abusive workplace environment, denying any wrongdoing and saying PBS made a mistake by suspending him from his talk show.
Email: Affleck asked PBS to not reveal slave-owning ancestor
Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series “Finding Your Roots” not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the program.
Columbus on PBS Saturday
The nation will learn about Columbus this weekend.
PBS NewsHour’s Main Street visits Columbus
They stood out at the ribbon cutting. Amidst the crowd of local media clamoring to get a photo of Governor Phil Bryant as he opened Yokohama Boulevard, three journalists were not from a local outlet, or even a Mississippi media group.
MUW alumna’s ‘Mississippi Remixed’ to air Sunday
An alumna of Mississippi University for Women is the creator of a documentary about race relations in Mississippi that will broadcast nationwide on more than 60 Public Broadcasting Service stations.
PBS: Acting like a network as well as service
NEW YORK — Honey Boo Boo, the management at PBS wants to thank you. You, too, real housewives. And naked castaways, Long Island princesses, breakaway
Hit program ‘Antiques Roadshow’ keeps on trucking for PBS
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The items arrive by the thousands, borne on furniture dollies, in Radio Flyer wagons or nestled carefully in owners’ arms. The hodge-podge
PBS American Experience film plumbs Civil War’s staggering toll
In the PBS American Experience documentary “Death and the Civil War” premiering Tuesday night, bloated Union and Confederate bodies are shown scattered on battlefields and in trenches and bleached skulls and body parts are stacked like cordwood.
PBS does detective work in West Point
WEST POINT — A young white man, donning a Confederate uniform, poses with his knife and revolver. Beside him, a young black man is seated, also holding his knife, and a shotgun, also in a Confederate coat.