The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) recently announced funding in the amount of $12 million for three, new public television documentary series in which Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. will explore the meaning of race, culture, and identity in America. Gates' recent PBS series include “African American Lives” and “African American Lives 2,” “Oprah’s Roots: An African American Lives Special,” “America Beyond the Color Line,” and “Wonders of the African World.”
Hosted and co-produced by Gates, the forthcoming projects (which are expected to premiere in 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively) will include “The Faces of America,” “Searching for Our Roots: The History of the African American People,” and “African American Lives 3: Reclaiming Our Past.” Each will be produced by WNET in New York, Kunhardt Productions, and Inkwell Films.
You can read more at http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/08.21/00-gates.html.
