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Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with PBS Video App. In this edition, we'll hit high notes with a San Diego Opera singer. A convergence of sculpture and Motown in a new art space. Visit a special place where creativity is front and center. And an exploration of masculinity and vulnerability through an artist's drawings.
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Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. Hosts Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison make classic Lahmajun (Armenian Flatbread). Testing expert Jack Bishop talks all things lentils. Test cook Dan Souza makes Vospov Kofte (Red Lentil Kofte) with host Bridget Lancaster.
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Premieres Monday, June 27 at 9 p.m. and Tuesday, June 28 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, June 29 at 8 p.m. and Thursday, June 30 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with PBS Video App. Ken Burns presents a documentary about the mental health crisis among youth in America. The two-part, four-hour film is part of Well Beings, a national campaign from public media to demystify and destigmatize our physical and mental health through storytelling.
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Tuesdays, Jan. 17 and 24, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Watch now with PBS Video app. Despite adversity, gay and lesbian organizing begins. Publications, protests and uprisings spring up, leading to the country's first Pride Parade, LGBTQ Social Services, the first "Gay City" and an eventual national Civil Rights Movement.
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THE GREEN PLANETEncore Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 18, Wednesday, June 19, Thursday, June 20 and Friday, June 21 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream the series now with KPBS Passport! Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to reveal the secret lives of plants. Using pioneering camera techniques, the series takes viewers on a magical journey inside the hidden world of plants, on which all animals — including humans — are dependent.
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Premieres Fridays, June 24 - July 29, 2022 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. This week: Meredith launched the Black Book Project to collect books featuring diverse characters for low-income youth. Grammy nominee Cam joins forces with songwriter Dre Williams to treat Meredith and many of the children she has helped to a surprise performance of a stirring folk anthem urging us all to act now.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 from 10 p.m. - Midnight / Stream now with the PBS App + KPBS Passport / Encore Sundays April 28 and May 5 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2. A celebration of California’s wildlife and wild places, and their coexistence with the 40 million people who call it home. Famous for its beaches and Hollywood, California is also a wellspring of biodiversity. Bounded by mountains, deserts and the Pacific Ocean, here are iconic wild places like Yosemite National Park and Death Valley, as well as Baja California’s lesser-known wild beauty.
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Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Monday, June 20 at 7 a.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Discover the little-known story of the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted into the 20th century. Laurence Fishburne narrates.
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Monday, June 20, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Not available on demand. On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system. (released in 1988)
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Premieres Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Friday, June 24 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with PBS Video App. Celebrate the comedic talents of Jon Stewart, this year's recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. A star-studded lineup pays tribute to the comedian, producer, author and social activist from the Kennedy Center stage in Washington, D.C.
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