GOSPEL’s hour 4 opens in the 1990s, when a new generation of music producers, record executives and artists embraced the secular rhythms…
GOSPEL’s hour 3 reveals how gospel was going mainstream and family dynasties, many raised in the Church of God in Christ, would dominate the charts…
Starting in the 1940s, GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black sacred music…
GOSPEL’s hour 1 takes the gospel train north to Chicago, where southern migrants Thomas A. Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe…
Singer Melveen Leed takes the stage to share her deep roots in traditional Hawaiian mele.
Considered the glue of Hawaiʻi Hip-Hop, Jamal Mamalias, a.k.a. Jam Watts, paved the way for Hawaiʻi Hip-Hoppers since the 1980ʻs.
PBS is celebrating Black History Month by throwing a Block Party!
James Mora, also known as DJ Jimmy Taco, has been a mainstay in Hawaiʻi Hip-Hop for over three decades. From his humble beginnings as a kid growing up in Kaʻu, Hawaiʻi to jamming on the radio waves and speakers in the clubs, Taco sits down with us to recall the times that helped shape his Hip-Hop journey.
Why do all the women in Tonga know how to juggle? Filmmaker Paprika Leaverton explores the origins of the native juggling art known as “hiko” and how it was revived by one of Tonga’s most revered monarchs. The film also takes a closer look at the country’s gender and power dynamics and how hiko is helping to empower women in a male-dominated society.
Follow the journey of legendary teacher Robert Cazimero and the only all-male hula school in Hawaiʻi as they prepare to compete at the world’s largest hula festival.