Independent Lens
“Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
Thursday, February 2 at 10:00 p.m.     

This program tells the story of Daisy Bates and her public support of nine black students who registered to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a constitutional crisis — pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself.

Underground Railroad:
The William Still Story
Monday, February 6 at 10:00 p.m.

Extraordinary people risked their lives to help fugitive slaves escape via the clandestine Underground Railroad. Among them was William Still of Philadelphia, a free black man who accepted delivery of transported crates containing “human cargo.”

American Experience “Freedom Riders”
Tuesday, February 7 at 8:00 p.m.

In 1961, many states violently enforced segregation, while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, remained indifferent, preoccupied with matters abroad. That is, until an integrated band of college students decided, en masse, to risk everything and buy a ticket on a Greyhound bus bound for the Deep South.

Independent Lens
“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975”
Thursday, February 9 at 10:00 p.m.

Combining fresh and candid 16mm footage that had lain undiscovered for the past 30 years, with contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, “Mixtape” looks at the people, society, culture and style that fuelled an era of convulsive change.

Slavery by Another Name
Monday, February 13 at 9:00 p.m.

 This new documentary examines the concept of “neoslavery,” which sentenced African-Americans to forced labor for violating an array of laws that criminalized their everyday behavior. Award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) narrates.

Independent Lens “More Than a Month”
Thursday, February 16 at 10:00 p.m.

Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this tongue-in-cheek journey, “More Than a Month” investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.

Independent Lens “When I Rise”
Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 p.m.