Jennifer Robinson

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs almost a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance and fear, he returns home to a life of activism. Though the run finishes, Brent’s fight never stops.

Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos was founded in 1981, only a few years before HIV/AIDS began to ravage LGBTQ communities. GLLU was the Los Angeles area’s first major Queer Latin@ organization, and the film chronicles events at a pivotal time in the history of LGBTQ equality, women’s rights, and civil rights movements that shaped the destinies of GLLU’s communities.

Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches his late father’s tapes and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. At once a conversation between past and present and a letter to Sol’s children, the film reveals the complexities of identity, the persistence of racial trauma, the challenges of fatherhood - and the liberation that exists in facing our own mortality.

Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 5 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Education and business executive Dr. Lanze Thompson (Clark Atlanta University) joins Killer Mike for a look at the role of education in shaping the lives of young people.

Premieres Monday, June 26, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots leads to a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom, amidst the tensions that have shaped American history. In the wake of recent Southern violence, "After Sherman" is a reclamation of Black life and space.

Premieres Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Although they grew up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians, these moms are now willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to keep their kids safe-even if it challenges their belief systems and rips apart their worlds.

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app + Encore Wednesday, April 21 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. We sit down with two powerhouses of talent in the theatre, television, and film scene. Dedrick Weathersby and Tisha Campbell join us to chat about their trials and tribulations in our industry.