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The Fight Against A 'National Sin'

Sharon Grimberg | Posted 03.16.2013 | Religion
Read More: Video, PBS American Experience, Slavery, Christianity, Abolitionists, American Experience, Second Great Awakening, Christian Social Justice, Religion News
Sharon Grimberg

Clergymen urged caution, warning that action against slavery might enrage Southerners. Their timidity made Garrison livid.

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Will PBS Do What Django Couldn't?

Lauren Brown Jarvis | Posted 03.11.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Django, PBS American Experience, Emancipation Proclamation, The Abolitionists, Slavery, Video, Black Voices News
Lauren Brown Jarvis

I'm curious if PBS can do what Django couldn't, as in, get Spike Lee to watch The Abolitionists, a new docudrama. Many criticisms of recent films centered around slavery have noted the absence of the abolitionists. Mad props to PBS for giving abolitionists their long overdue shine.

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WATCH: Understanding The Radically Forgiving Faith Of The Amish

Callie Taintor Wiser | Posted 02.28.2012 | Religion
Read More: PBS American Experience, Video, Christianity, Nickel Mines PA, Pennsylvania Amish, Religion in America, The Amish, American Experience, Religion News

On Oct. 2, 2006, the Amish were catapulted into the national spotlight when a non-Amish man entered a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Penn., and...

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PBS Documentary Relives one of America's Lowest Moments

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Pbs, PBS American Experience, My Lai, My Lai Massacre, World News
Byron Williams

On Monday, PBS will air a program about one of the dark moments in U.S. history -- the massacre at My Lai. My Lai has the infamous distinction of being the most brutal atrocity of the Vietnam War. It is a tragedy on multiple fronts.

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