KQED Public Television proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with a special lineup in February. Many of these programs are available on KQED's premier service, analog channel 9, as indicated. Other programs, as indicated, are available on KQED's five digital channels, available to viewers with a digital receiver or via Comcast digital cable. Visit www.kqed.org/dtv for more information.

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Saturday 2
8pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Globe Trekker Eastern Caribbean explores a festival on Trinidad and the rain forest in Dominica.

Sunday 3
7am KQED 9 | Reading Rainbow: Ruth Law Thrills a Nation. The kids explore the history of flight in America and meet a teenage African American pilot.

noon KQED 9 | Eyes on the Prize II: An American Experience Special. The Time Has Come (1964-66) / Two Societies (1965-68). Nearly two decades after its 1990 premiere, the groundbreaking second season of "Eyes on the Prize" returns to PBS as a special presentation of American Experience. The series documents the journey of black Americans seeking justice, power and identity, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, and shows the profound effect this movement had on all Americans.

6pm KQED 9 | African Footprint showcases black youth combining different forms of African song and dance. | R 2/6 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)

9pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | American Experience: Malcom X--Make It Plain. This portrait of the man who expressed the anger of African Americans and their insistence on dignity and freedom reflects the intellectual journey of a complex man whose ideas continue to resonate.

10pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Meet Mary Pleasant is a look at the 19th-century African American woman called the Mother of Civil Rights in California.

Monday 4
7pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Legacy of Hope The choir is joined by singer Pam Laws to perform soulful songs including "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child." | R 2/24 11pm (KQED HD)

7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Chris Gardner reveals some of the compelling stories in his memoir The Pursuit of Happyness. | R 2/8 2:30am & 2/10 6am (KQED 9 & HD), 2/9 11:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)

9pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives #402 investigates whether an autographed baseball could be evidence of the influence of America's national pastime on postwar racial integration.

Tuesday 5
1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives #509. A Staten Island woman believes she owns a saddle once owned by legendary cowboy Bill Pickett, an African American film and Wild West show star.

Wednesday 6
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold: A Closer Look includes a stop at the reunion of the nation's last cavalry regiment, which trained at Camp Lockett in Campo. The 10th Unit, a black regiment, carried on the proud tradition of the "Buffalo Soldiers."

7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | debut | Blood Knot, Mark Fiore and Hung Lui. | R 2/8 11:30pm (KQED 9), 2/9 11pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/10 6:30am, 2/11 3am & 2/12 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)

9pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | African American Lives 2 | debut | Long Journey Home/Freedom's Just Another Word. Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. guides an all-new group of prominent African Americans to trace their roots through American history and back to Africa. | R 2/7 8pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/9 3am, 2/11 1am (KQED 9 & HD), 2/10 10pm (KQED World)

11pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Prince Among Slaves | debut | profiles an African prince who secured his freedom only after being enslaved in the South for 40 years. | R 2/7 10pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/9 3pm (KQED 9 & HD)

Thursday 7
10am KQED 9 | Colonial Williamsburg Fildtrips: No Master Over Me. Ann Ashby tells the story of her life as a free black during the days of slavery.

Friday 8
2:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Chris Gardner. | RR 2/4 7:30pm | R 2/10 6am (KQED 9 & HD), 2/9 11:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)

11:30pm KQED 9 | Spark | Q | Blood Knot, Mark Fiore and Hung Lui. | R 2/9 11pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/10 6:30am, 2/11 3am & 2/12 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)

Saturday 9

3am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | African American Lives 2 Long Journey Home/Freedom's Just Another Word. | RR 2/6 9pm | R 2/10 10pm (KQED World), 2/11 1am (KQED 9 & HD)

3pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Prince Among Slaves | RR 2/6 11pm

3pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Tangier Treehouse A group of Moroccan street children at a tree house–building workshop find themselves unexpectedly transformed.

5:59pm KQED 9 | Johnny Mathis: Wonderful, Wonderful Recording star Johnny Mathis celebrates his 50th anniversary in show business with a hit-filled concert recorded in Atlantic City in late October 2006.

9pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Austin City Limits Femi Kuti. The Nigerian bandleader andpolitical activist performs his multilayered, socially conscious Afrobeat. | R 2/16 7pm (KQED Life-Encore)

Sunday 10
6am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Chris Gardner. | RR 2/4 7:30pm

6:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Blood Knot, Mark Fiore and Hung Lui. | R 2/11 3am & 2/12 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)

noon KQED 9 | Eyes on the Prize II: An American Experience Special. Power! (1967-68) / The Promised Land (1967-68). The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in Black America. The Black Panther Party, armed with law books, breakfast programs and guns, is born in Oakland. Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement.

2pm KQED 9 | Colorblind | debut | Former classmates from a Detroit elementary school reunite and discuss the profound impact their African American teacher had on their lives. | R 2/16 4pm (KQED World)

5pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World chronicles the Globetrotters' legendary upset of the World Champion Minneapolis Lakers in 1948, paving the way for integration of the NBA, as well as the team's historic trip to Berlin in 1951.

6pm KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories | Q | debut | Piece by Piece documents the history of San Francisco's controversial graffiti art movement as seen through the eyes of the artists, chronicling more than 20 years of creation and destruction honestly, accurately and critically. | R 2/12 11pm, 2/13 3am (KQED 9), 2/13 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)

6pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Evening with Denyce Graves Taped before an audience in Chicago, this one-on-one interview provides a rare glimpse into the life of the legendary mezzo-soprano.

7pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Evening with Andrew Young is an inside look into the life and career of the civil rights leader and former U.N. ambassador.

8pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Evening with Diahann Carroll The legendary entertainer talks about her battles with racism and sexism in the entertainment industry.

9pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Evening with Quincy Jones This profile of the music mogul features performances by Bobby McFerrin and Herbie Hancock.

9pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Legacy: Being Black in America looks at the lives of African Americans today set against the story of the Civil Rights Movement generation.

10pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Evening with Russell Simmons provides an entertaining and historical look at the life of the hip-hop innovator.

Monday 11

mid KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings - 1954-1956/Fighting Back - 1957-1962

1am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | African American Lives 2 Long Journey Home/Freedom's Just Another Word. | RR 2/6 9pm

3am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Blood Knot, Mark Fiore and Hung Lui. | R 2/12 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)

7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Author Lalita Tademy. | R 2/15 2:30am, 2/17 6am (KQED 9 & HD)

9pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives #210. An investigation of the life of Paul Cuffee uncovers a dramatic story of African American achievement in the years surrounding the Revolutionary War.

10pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special is a quest to discover the full history of the struggles and accomplishments of Oprah's ancestors. | R 2/12 9pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/15 4am (KQED 9), 2/17 9pm (KQED World)

Tuesday 12
2:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Blood Knot, Mark Fiore and Hung Lui.

3am KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Slavery and the Making of America: The Downward Spiral examines the days when slavery was a loosely defined labor source similar to indentured servitude.

4am KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Slavery and the Making of America: Liberty in the Air explores the expansion of slavery in the colonies and the evolution of an African American culture.

1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives #410. A man from the Bronx believes he purchased an African American man's "freedom paper" at a flea market.

11pm KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories | Q | Piece by Piece. | RR 2/10 6pm | R 2/13 3am (KQED 9), 2/13 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)

Wednesday 13
3am KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories | Q | Piece by Piece. | RR 2/10 6pm | R 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)

2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold: A Tale of Two Cities. Huell Howser visits Allensworth, California's only community founded by and from 1908 to 1918 governed by African Americans

7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Other Stories. | R 2/15 11:30pm (KQED 9), 2/17 6:30am, 2/18 3am & 2/19 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD), 2/18 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)

9pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | African American Lives 2 | debut | As American As Apple Pie/The Past Is Another Country. Depression-era records unearth the extraordinary life of actor Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother. | R 2/14 8pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/16 3am, 2/18 1am (KQED 9 & HD), 2/17 10pm (KQED World)

11pm KQED 9 | Independent Lens: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes goes beyond the music and profiles several people who use rap as a creative and artistic expression. | R 2/14 10pm (Life-Encore)

Thursday 14
9pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | In Performance at the White House: Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. An evening of celebration with President and Mrs. Bush at the White House in honor of jazz music. | R 2/24 7pm (Life-Encore)

Friday 15
2:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Author Lalita Tademy. | R 2/17 6am (KQED 9 & HD)

4am KQED 9 | Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special | RR 2/11 10pm | R 2/17 9pm (KQED World)

11:30pm KQED 9 | Spark | Q | Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Other Stories. | R 2/17 6:30am, 2/18 3am & 2/19 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD), 2/18 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)

Saturday 16
3am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | African American Lives 2 As American As Apple Pie/The Past Is Another Country. | RR 2/13 9pm | R 2/17 10pm (KQED World), 2/18 1am (KQED 9 & HD)

6am KQED 9 | Sammy Davis Jr. Live in Germany | debut | The world-renowned entertainer offers up a set of timeless classics in this 1985 performance.

Sunday 17
6am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Author Lalita Tademy.

6:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark| Q | Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Other Stories. | R 2/18 3am & 2/19 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD), 2/18 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)

7am KQED 9 | Reading Rainbow: Follow the Drinking Gourd presents a history of slavery in America and explains what life was like for Africans who were brought to America as slaves.

noon KQED 9 | Eyes on the Prize II: An American Experience Special. Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-72) / A Nation of Law? (1968-71) A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. Black activism is increasingly met with a sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies.

noon KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Great Performances We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song. This all-star tribute to Ella Fitzgerald features Natalie Cole, Quincy Jones and k.d. lang. | R 2/17 9:30pm (Life-Encore)

2pm KQED 9 | In Performance at the White House: Dance Theatre of Harlem. President and First Lady Bush host this event honoring the 37-year history of the company. | R 2/21 9pm (KQED HD), 2/24 6pm (Life-Encore)

5pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Independent Lens: Let the Church Say Amen. Tracing the lives of four Washington, D.C., parishioners in the months before Easter, this film shows how the holiday's promise helps them through adversity.

6pm KQED 9 | Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey This riveting and thought-provoking film transports viewers through the inspiring life and work of one of the first African American federal judges in the United States. | R 2/20 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)

6:30pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Great Performances: Lionel Richie: Live in Paris. The Grammy Award–winning singer/ songwriter performs his trademark hits as well as new favorites.

8pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Four Tops 50th Anniversary Celebration Friends and peers joined The Four Tops as they celebrated 50 years in the entertainment industry with an all-star concert from the famed Detroit Opera House.


Monday 18

mid KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails - 1960 - 1961/No Easy Walk - 1961-1963

1am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | African American Lives 2 As American As Apple Pie/The Past Is Another Country. | RR 2/13 9pm

3am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Other Stories. | R 2/18 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/19 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)

7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Actor Delroy Lindo. A conversation with the Oakland-based actor. | R 2/22 2:30am & 2/24 6am (KQED 9 & HD), 2/22 1:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)

9pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives #408 investigates what may be a rare artifact from Marcus Garvey's heyday.

11:30pm KQED 9 | Fannie Lou Hamer: Courage and Faith explores the struggles of the woman whose plea for justice struck a chord throughout the country. | R 2/19 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)

Tuesday 19
2:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Saxophonist Howard Wiley, Weaver Adela Akers and Other Stories.

3am KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Slavery and the Making of America - Seeds of Destruction. From 1800 through the start of the Civil War, slavery saw an enormous expansion.

4am KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Slavery and the Making of America - The Challenge of Freedom follows the life of a South Carolina slave through the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond.

8:30am KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Burt Wolf: What We Eat: The Hand That Stirred the Pot: African Foods in America explores the origins of traditional African foods and the roles they play in Western cooking and culture.

11pm KQED 9 | Independent Lens | debut | Banished is the story of three U.S. counties that expelled African American families from their towns a century ago. | R 2/20 2am (KQED Life-Encore)

Wednesday 20
4am KQED 9 | American Masters: Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul traces the meteoric rise to fame of the world-famous Queen of Soul. | R 2/24 2pm (KQED 9)

2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold: Sequoia Black History. Huell Howser joins the centennial celebration of Colonel Charles Young's tenure as superintendent at Sequoia National Park.

7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Lily Cai, Mike Henderson and June Schwarcz includes a visit to the art studio of Mike Henderson, who has dedicated the last four decades to painting. | R 2/22 11:30pm (KQED 9), 2/23 11:30pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/24 6:30am & 2/26 3am (KQED 9 & HD)

11:30pm KQED 9 | Signpost to Freedom: The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott In 1953, the African American citizens of Louisiana's capital city refused to ride city buses. | R 2/21 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)

Thursday 21
11:30pm KQED 9 | ImageMakers | Q | Lost in Suburbia features the films Fueling the Fire and Car Park.

Friday 22
2:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Actor Delroy Lindo. | RR 2/18 7:30pm | R 2/22 1:30pm (KQED Life-Encore), 2/24 6am (KQED 9 & HD)

11:30pm KQED 9 | Spark | Q | Lily Cai, Mike Henderson and June Schwarcz. | RR 2/20 7:30pm | R 2/23 11:30pm (KQED Life-Encore), & 2/24 6:30am, 2/26 3am (KQED 9 & HD)

Saturday 23
3pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Come Walk in My Shoes casts light on the experiences of men and women at the forefront of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

4pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Better Hour: The Legacy of William Wilberforce examines the life of the social reformer who led the effort in Britain to stop the slave trade.

5pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Odyssey of Captain Healy profiles the life of one of the most famous men on the Pacific Coast during the 19th century.

Sunday 24
6am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show Actor Delroy Lindo. | RR 2/18 7:30pm

6:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark Lily Cai, Mike Henderson and June Schwarcz. | RR 2/20 7:30pm | R 2/26 3am

7am KQED 9 | Reading Rainbow: Amazing Grace. Three women, including Whoopi Goldberg, discuss overcoming stereotypes to fulfill their dreams.

noon KQED 9 | Eyes on the Prize II: An American Experience Special. The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-80) / Back to the Movement (1979-Mid-1980's). In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. The series ends with a look back at the people who made this movement a force for change in America.

2pm KQED 9 | American Masters Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul. | RR 2/20 4am

9pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Independent Lens Negroes with Gun: Rob Williams and Black Power follows Williams's journey from southern community leader to exile in Cuba and China.

10pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Redtail Reborn | R 2/25 9pm (KQED HD)

11pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Clinton 12 James Earl Jones narrates the story of 12 black teenagers who entered an all-white school in 1958.

Monday 25
mid KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi: Is This America? - 1963-1964/Bridge to Freedom - 1965

1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives #108 investigates if a dummy helped protest against racial prejudice.

Tuesday 26
3am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Lily Cai, Mike Henderson and June Schwarcz. | RR 2/20 7:30pm

1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives #103 finds out if a ship hold the secrets to the Underground Railroad.

Wednesday 27
7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Delroy Lindo, Bay Area Klezmer and Kaleid. | R 2/29 11:30pm (KQED 9)

Friday 29
11:30pm KQED 9 | Spark | Q | Delroy Lindo, Bay Area Klezmer and Kaleid.