Trailer for ‘Making Black America: Through the Grapevine’

“Making Black America: Through the Grapevine,” Premieres Tuesdays, October 4th on PBS, continuing on the 11th, 18th and 25th.

A a four-part series from executive producer, host and writer Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In this latest series from the acclaimed Harvard scholar and documentarian, Gates and directors Stacey L. Holman and Shayla Harris, chronicle the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the “white gaze.”

The series recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure, and the social media phenomenon of Black Twitter. Gates sits with noted scholars, politicians, cultural leaders, and old friends to discuss this world behind the color line and what it looks like today.

Making Black America takes viewers into an extraordinary world that showcases Black people’s ability to collectively prosper, defy white supremacy and define Blackness in ways that transformed America itself.

Check Out the Trailer!