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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted their faith practices from slavery to emancipation.

(Pre-Covid) 43 million people in the United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago. 1.5 million children are homeless, three times more than during the Great Depression the 1930s. Entire families are tossed from one place to another to work unstable jobs that barely allow them to survive. In the historically poor Appalachian mining region, people rely on food stamps for food. In Los Angeles, the number of homeless...

Writer Amy Tan's hit debut novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), catapulted her to commercial and critical success. Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950's America, Amy Tan's painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. Journey through the groundbreaking author's life and career with archival imagery, artful animation and original interviews.

Native America explores the world created by America{u2019}s First Peoples. The four part series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.

Eugenics is the dirty word that haunted the twentieth century. It makes us think of forced sterilisations, Nazi death camps and ethnic genocide. It's the attempt to use science to manipulate genetic inheritance, to change human evolution, to breed a "better" human. It led to the belief that the lives of the disabled, the lower classes, the non-white - in fact people such as our presenters, Adam and Angela - were somehow worth less - even that they...