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The mission of public broadcasting has always been to create a more informed society-one that is enriched by radio and television programs that provide a deeper understanding of events, ideas, and culture. During these times of social distancing and remote learning, the AAPB is a source for online connection and continued education.
While cultural institutions may be closed for now, we would like to share with you some museum coverage in the AAPB. Hopefully you will find these resources useful and enriching!
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Folklore in Museums from The Inquiring Mind KUT | Austin, Texas Find out how museums capture the magic of folklore.
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Museum Open House WGBH | Boston, MA Take a tour of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to discover art from antiquity to modern times.
(30 mins per episode) WATCH 
Museum Blockbusters The MacNeil/Lehrer Report | New York, New York Following the success of the King Tut exhibit in the 1970s, museum directors reflect on the impact of hugely popular exhibitions.
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The Cartoon Museum Mountain Lake PBS | Plattsburgh, New York Visit the Cartoon Museum, which holds more than 1,000 pieces of cartoon art, and meet the founder who has collected cartoons for more than 50 years.
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| americanarchive.org  Over 115,000 items preserved on-site and more than 55,500 items are now available in the Online Reading Room!
Native American Heritage Month To commemorate Native American Heritage Month, check out the Native American-produced public radio and television collections in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB). These programs bring to light the history, culture, and experiences of Native Americans through documentaries, event coverage, commentary programs and local meetings. Vision Maker Media Special Collection  Films in this collection from Vision Maker Media in Nebraska feature Native voices in productions created between 1982 and 2012. Documentaries showcase the people, society and culture of Native tribes including, but not limited to, the Navajo (Dine), Lakota and Choctaw.
Vision Maker Media plans to have their whole collection preserved in the AAPB. Here are a few suggested films: Visit  Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People, 1992 This Peabody award winning film follows the 450 year-relationship of the Pueblos and other cultures, beginning with the Spanish explorers in 1539. Watch  The Return of Navajo Boy, 2000 An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, this film is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. Watch  For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska, 2009 The story of an extraordinary Alaskan woman, Elizabeth Peratrovich, an unassuming Tlingit Indian mother of three, who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight for civil rights. Watch  Way of the Warrior, 2007 This documentary explores how Native communities have traditionally viewed their warriors and why, during the 20th century, Native men and women have signed up for military service at a rate three times higher than non-Natives. Watch Additional Native American-produced Collections  From Anchorage, Alaska, Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation was created as a non-profit media corporation in 1992 by Alaska Native leaders to preserve culture and languages, combat widespread misconceptions and prejudices against Alaska Natives and create cross-cultural bridges. Visit  From Central Oregon, KWSO is a non-commercial community radio station owned and operated by three tribes of The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs (CTWS). Its programming delivers local news and information with a primary focus on the residents of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Explore the Warm Springs Program, Our People & Mother Earth, Language Lessons and more! Visit  From Bethel, Alaska, KYUK, one of the first Native-owned and operated stations, has produced and preserved the world's largest selection of Yup'ik and Cup'ik videos available online. Access their contributed programs online, such as Mountain Village, Yup'ik Dance & Culture and Waves of Wisdom. Visit The American Archive of Public Broadcasting coordinates a national effort to digitally preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media over the past seven decades.
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| americanarchive.org   Phyllis, Gloria, Shirley, Betty... For almost a century this country has been debating the merits of an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that would guarantee equal legal rights for all Americans regardless of sex. Meet some of the pioneers and detractors from the 1970s in the archive, where you'll find interviews and speeches from Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Shirley Chisholm and more.
Let us know which historical figures you find in the archive by sharing a link with us on Twitter or Facebook at @amarchivepub!
 Phyllis Schlafly and Karen DeCrow debate the ERA KOPN-FM (Missouri) | 40 mins
Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative activist, and DeCrow, president of the National Organization for Women, hash out the meaning and value of the ERA. LISTEN
 Shirley Chisholm: Democratic Party Presidential Candidate Speaks Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (CA) | 1972 | 50 mins
In 1972, Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, announced her bid for presidency. Chisholm argued for economic reforms and an end to the Vietnam War. LISTEN
 Jill Ruckelshaus: Women as a Political Force WNED (Buffalo, NY) | 1973 | 29 mins
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 Congresswoman Bella Abzug WNED (Buffalo, NY) | 1974 | 29 mins
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 Betty Friedan WNED (Buffalo, NY) | 1974 | 29 mins
This episode of Woman features a conversation with Betty Friedan, the author of The Feminine Mystique and the founder of the National Organization for Women. WATCH
 Gloria Steinem: Images of Women KUT Radio (Texas) | 1980 | 57 mins
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| americanarchive.org  Over 107,000 public television and radio programs and related items are preserved for posterity. More than 55,000 are now available for viewing and listening in the Online Reading Room!
Frequently Visited Items  This episode of Public Broadcast Laboratory (1968) covers MLK's Poor People's Campaign, a Black soldier returning from Vietnam, opinions on marijuana and includes Glenn Gould's controversial musical essay "How Mozart Became a Bad Composer."  This Black Journal (1970) segment features John Lee Hooker, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell, Arthur Ashe and more.  BackStory (2014) takes an in-depth look at how Native peoples have been represented-and misrepresented-in U.S. history.
Now Accessible in the Online Reading Room  The WRVR-FM (Riverside Church) Collection (1961-1973) explores the antiwar movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, religion and more. Help correct the computer-generated WRVR transcripts in FIX IT+!  Black Films: Rip Off or Right On? from Black Journal (1974) investigates the influence of movies and features a discussion about Black films.  This episode of Realidades (1977) is about the power of the Latino vote and explains the Voting Rights Act and its impact on the Latino community.
AAPB Remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg  Watch Ginsburg's appearance as a panelist on the National Law Survival Quiz from New Jersey Network (1980).  Following Ginsburg's nomination, a panel on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (1993) discusses her suitability for the high court.
In the Press PBS Showed TV the Future. But What Does Its Own Look Like? The New York Times, Oct 13, 2020
American Archive 'edit-a-thons' enhance Wikipedia with pubmedia content Current, Sept 25, 2020
"In Black America" Celebrates 50 Years KUT, Aug 31, 2020 (Access the In Black America Collection in the AAPB here.) The American Archive of Public Broadcasting coordinates a national effort to digitally preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media over the past seven decades.
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| americanarchive.org   Earth Day Retrospective We celebrated the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by inviting science and media historian Ingrid Ockert, PhD to highlight related items in the AAPB. Dr. Ockert is a Haas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia and a member of the AAPB Scholar Advisory Committee. Enjoy her selection of programs below and be sure to follow us on social media to see more at @amarchivepub!
 Climate Change Conversations: Causes, Impacts, Solutions Exhibit Curator: Casey Davis Kaufman, AAPB Project Manager
Climate scientists and activists have used the venue of public broadcasting to discuss climate change for more than a quarter of a century. They have repeatedly communicated the science of human-driven climate change and its impacts in interviews, call-in radio shows, debates, public lectures, news programs, and documentaries. EXPLORE
 Discovery: Butterflies and Moths WATCH
 Earth Day WATCH
 After the Warming WATCH
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 a collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH AAPB Winter 2020 Newsletter QUICK HIGHLIGHTS New Year, New Feature! Learn How to Share and Embed AAPB Content
Radio Survivor Podcast Discusses Archiving Public Media with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting What''s popular? In 2019, AAPB received more than 230,000 visits to the website, a 54% increase from 2018 and a nearly 200% increase from 2017!
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Tune in: WGBH Web Series Explores Public Media Archives Produced by the WGBH Digital Team, The Rewind is a web series that explores public media archives, including content from contributing organizations in the AAPB. We are pleased to share that the AAPB Engagement and Use Manager, Ryn Marchese, has been a co-producer and writer for Season 1, and will now be the host of Season 2! You can Meet Ryn Marchese in the latest episode of The Rewind and watch the series online at WGBH.org. COLLECTION GROWTH More than 52,000 items are available in the Online Reading Room and over 110,000 items are available on-site at the Library of Congress and WGBH. New Exhibit
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PROJECT UPDATES Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship and Call for Applications The inaugural cohort of Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellows at the University of Alabama is wrapping up their first semester by creating Special Collections for the AAPB website featuring the material they've digitized over the last three months. Three Special Collections will present newly digitized material from WCVE in Virginia, WSRE in Florida, and the Center for Public Television and Radio in Alabama.
This first Fellowship marks the start of an ongoing collaboration between the AAPB and the University of Alabama to provide students enrolled in the university's School of Library and Information Studies distance program with hands-on experience in working with analog video materials and managing a digitization project at a public media organization. The call for scholarship applications in now open through March 15th.
National Educational Television (NET) Digitization Update The Library of Congress has recently digitized 159 NET titles from master material and added them to the AAPB. The Library will digitize approximately 500 2-inch quad videotapes per year in its NET and PBS collection for inclusion in the AAPB. Upcoming Grants To help stations preserve their content and contribute it to the AAPB, we have worked with several organizations to write and submit grant proposals. Below are organizations that have recently received funding to digitize their collections and will be contributing these materials to the AAPB.
Congratulations to them all!
Recent Press "When Watergate Was Appointment TV" New York Times, Nov 2019
"For World Kindness Day, People Celebrated Fred Rogers with Babies in Cardigans and a Newly Unearthed Short Documentary" Fatherly.com, Nov 2019
"NPT digitizes Seigenthaler''s ''A Word on Words'' Series" The Tennessean, Oct 2019
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| americanarchive.org  More than 55,500 items are now available in the Online Reading Room! August in Review
FREQUENTLY VISITED ITEMS DURING AUGUST  Watch A Conversation With James Baldwin (WGBH, 1963)  Watch NET Journal; Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (William Greaves Productions, 1968)  Watch Woman; Equal Rights Amendment, Part 2 (WNED, 1973)
NEW ITEMS IN THE ONLINE READING ROOM AAPB staff review hundreds of items each month before making the content available online. Here are just a few of the newly accessible titles:
NEW ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS Below are new members of the AAPB Advisory Committees who help to guide and direct the AAPB in these respective areas:
Education Laura Evans | Georgia Public Broadcasting Benjamin Leff | University Laboratory High School, Urbana, IL Jen Reidel | Bellingham School District, WA
Scholar Kathryn Cramer Brownell | Purdue University Dolores In?s Casillas | University of California, Santa Barbara Brenda J. Child | University of Minnesota Sherman Dorn | Arizona State University Joshua Glick | Hendrix College and Fellow at MIT''s Open Documentary Lab Neil Verma | Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
Stations and Producers Terry Gildea | Public Media Journalists Association
EXPLORE THESE BACK TO SCHOOL RESOURCES
 Each year, NHD hosts a national research competition and the 2020-2021 theme is Communication in History: The Key to Understanding. Public broadcasting has been an influential form of communication for the past seven decades, and students can use the AAPB to explore how public media has communicated important issues to the American public through television and radio.
Blog post featuring suggested resources around key topics such as the Civil Rights Movement, Exploring Domestic and Foreign Affairs in United States History, and Teaching French.
The AAPB is participating in the National Humanities Center newly launched online portal, ''Humanities in Class Digital Library''. This portal provides access to the instructional resources and scholarly materials in support of humanities education. Resources are tagged by subject matter, topics, and material type, making it easy to discover and combine content educators need from trusted institutions.
UPCOMING VIRTUAL EVENTS Transcript-a-thons Every Thursday at 4pm (ET)  Sign-up Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Series Sept 17 | Oct 15 | Nov 19th at 4pm (ET)  Sign-up
AAPB IN THE PRESS Rewatching "Black Journal" Five Decades On The New York Times, August 24, 2020
C.T. Vivian, Martin Luther King's Field General, Dies at 95 The New York Times, July 17, 2020
Historic Black Journal Streams for the First Time Thirteen WNET, July 16, 2020 The American Archive of Public Broadcasting seeks to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media, and to coordinate a national effort to save at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity.
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AAPB Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Thu, July 23, 2020 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT
Join the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) and Wikimedia DC for a virtual edit-a-thon to help improve the searchability of historic public radio and television collections in the AAPB while strengthening the quality of Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia.
This will event will cover how to create a Wikipedia user account and edit pages using common conventions. View the registration page for details.
How does the edit-a-thon work? For example:  Black Journal host Tony Brown interviews Angela Davis, 1972. In 1972, the academic and activist Angela Davis garnered global attention following an historic acquittal. She made her first national television appearance in an exclusive interview on Black Journal, a series digitally preserved and made accessible in the AAPB. The edit-a-thon will teach attendees how to link items such as Davis'' Black Journal interview on relevant Wikipedia pages, such as the Angela Davis Wikipedia page.
Providing these links help to strengthen the knowledge of public broadcasting history and its accessibility in the AAPB for students, scholars, educators, and the general public. Register here!
FIX IT+ Transcript-a-thon Thursdays  Thursdays beginning July 30, 2020 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT Join AAPB staff for weekly FIX IT+ tutorials. FIX IT+ is an AAPB platform designed to help correct computer-generated transcripts of programs in the collection. While correcting basic spelling and punctuation errors, volunteers are making collections in the AAPB more searchable and accessible via keyword corrections. Sign-up here for the weekly event link and reminder! Stay connected!
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| americanarchive.org   Historic Public Affairs Series Black Journal Now Available Online at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Programs from 1960s and 1970s Include Interviews with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Louis Farrakhan, Angela Davis and others in Black Journal
Additional Scholar Exhibit Explores Black Power in Public Media
A collection of episodes from Black Journal, the first nationally televised public affairs program produced for, about, and by Black Americans has been released by The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between WGBH and the Library of Congress. Largely unseen since they aired between 1968 and 1977, the 59 episodes have been digitized from archival tape in the Library's collection and are now available to stream for free online. Topics addressed by the series include the Black Power Movement, Black nationalism, the "Black is beautiful" movement, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, the African diaspora, the Black student movement, Pan-Africanism, the media's representation of Black people and more. Black Journal was produced first by National Educational Television (NET), the precursor to PBS, and later by WNET in New York.
  Lou House and Kathleen Cleaver on Black Journal. Ellis Haizlip, host of Soul!. At the time of the 1968 uprisings that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., NET took the lead in creating and distributing content that engaged with issues pertaining to Black America. As part of its mission to feature Black voices and perspectives, Black Journal presented news segments and documentaries about Black communities and interviews with notable Black figures such as activist and author Angela Davis, minister and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Black staff members advocated for Black leadership of the show with a strike, leading to the installment of Black filmmaker William Greaves as producer in place of white executive producer Al Perlmutter. The series received Emmy, Peabody and Russwurm awards for its coverage of timely issues and exploration of what it meant to be Black in America. "From spotlight features on Black artists to a deep dive into Black Compton in the 70s, ''Black Journal'' reveals how public television led media in opening doors for Black creators." - Winter Shanck, WNET Lead Archivist
"Black Journal represented a sea change in how American public television saw the importance of responding to demands for Black representation in the media," said Alan Gevinson, Ph.D., AAPB project director at the Library of Congress. "Like so many historic programs that document the Black Freedom Movement at this moment in our history, Black Journal was at risk of being lost to time. We're proud to make this unique, forward-thinking program led by Black voices available to all in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting."
Accompanying the Black Journal episodes is a collection of essays that explore the public television programs that put Black issues and Black perspectives at the forefront in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. Written by Christine Acham, Ph.D, Chair and Professor at University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Academy for Creative Media, and Ashley Young, Ph.D candidate in USC's School of Cinematic Arts, the exhibit, "Televising Black Politics in the Black Power Era: Black Journal and Soul!" chronicles how television became a tool for breaking down stereotypes and for fostering dialogue within Black communities. In addition to delving into the history of Black Journal, the exhibit discusses Soul!, a variety talk show created for and by African Americans that aired between 1968 and 1973 on public television. Soul! featured the era's most prominent Black political and cultural figures, musicians, writers and poets, including activist Stokely Carmichael, playwright and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, musician Curtis Mayfield, poet Nikki Giovanni and actor/director Sidney Poitier.
"When Black Journal and Soul! came to America's airwaves, it ushered in an era of televised Black pride and agency that was largely unknown to the white public. By making these episodes available once again, and revealing the context in which they were produced, we hope a new generation will be inspired by the creative spirit that brought communities together in understanding," said Acham. "A big thanks to the AAPB and to WNET for their preservation efforts and resurfacing these historic programs."
"The preservation of Black Journal for posterity is something that I am proud to have played a part in. These programs, created by Black producers during a time of change for race relations in America, have a lot to teach us as leaders and citizens today," said Winter Shanck, WNET Lead Archivist. "From spotlight features on Black artists to a deep dive into Black Compton in the 70s, Black Journal reveals how public television led media in opening doors for Black creators." View the Black Journal Collection View the "Televising Black Politics" Exhibit
Broadcasting in the Public Interest: The Newton Minow Collection This special collection honors Newton Minow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and an instrumental player in the development of noncommercial television. The collection includes materials in the AAPB that feature Minow, including interviews, panels, testimonies, events, and profiles from 1961 to 2016. View the Collection
 BirdNote Collection The BirdNote Collection contains audio files and transcripts from BirdNote, a daily public media program that brings joy, inspiration, and hope to people who value birds and the environment. Each episode is approximately two minutes long, immersing listeners in the amazing lives and sounds of birds. View the Collection 
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| americanarchive.org   Botanical Garden Tours Botanical gardens are dedicated to the cultivation, display and preservation of specialized plant collections. With many of these destinations temporarily closed, we invite you to explore the excellent garden tours in the AAPB.
Hopefully these programs will freshen up your day and help you conquer the weeds!
Sincerely, The AAPB Team
 Botanical Beauties: US Botanical Gardens WPBS (Watertown, NY) | 1993 | 26 mins
Nestled in the heart of Washington D.C., the US Botanical Gardens is home to numerous themed gardens including Mostly Mints, Summer Madness, Purple and Yellow Garden, Children''s Garden and the Hanging Basket Garden. WATCH
 The Chinese Gardens of Montreal Mountain Lake PBS (Plattsburgh, NY) | 2006 | 27 mins
The Chinese Gardens of Montreal replicate a private garden from the Ming Dynasty. On this tour you will find a garden full of ancient symbolism and imagery. WATCH
 New York Botanical Garden Thirteen WNET (New York, NY) | 2006 | 27 mins
A tour of the New York Botanical Garden, a world-class research institution, invites you into the world of the botanists who are DNA-barcoding-a technique that has the potential to address such challenges as species endangerment and climate change. WATCH
BONUS  Hit the Dirt: Botanical Latin WERU Community Radio (East Orland, Maine) | 7 mins
Latin names tell you a lot about a plant. The host of Hit the Dirt breaks down how a botanical name can tell you a plant''s origin, shape, color, use and who it may be named after. LISTEN
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