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- A look at the life of poet, Nikki Giovanni and the revolutionary historical periods through which she lived, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.
- This is a fast paced, modern, thirty-minute program that explores the best of Michigan. Airing on PBS outlets all across Michigan, in Northern Ohio and Eastern Wisconsin and 2.5 Million homes in Canada. Think modern, hip, high tech, fast paced, travel channel - concentrating on only Michigan. Each week UTR host Tom Daldin explores everything from Michigan restaurants and museums, to cool businesses and neighborhoods. The object is to discover the people, places and things that are unique about Michigan.
- Unlike many Native American tribes, The Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi Indians were never removed from their ancestral lands, but they saw their environment and way of life fractured over time. A small group of tribal citizens fought for decades to keep traditional ways alive. When the US Federal government recognized the Pokagon as a sovereign tribal nation in the early 1990s, the tribe launched a series of cultural preservation and environmental restoration efforts. They are now actively working to restore with traditional arts, their language and ways of life, while creating new traditions to inspire tribal citizens to protect and preserve waterways for the next seven generations.
- This film tells the story of highly accomplished individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder, including former congressman Patrick Kennedy, attorney Terri Cheney, and cartoonist Ellen Forney. It seeks to find out where the biological breakdowns occur and how we can possibly preempt, fix, or rewire our brains to move forward to stability.
- Five generations of the Taylor and Van Hoosen family, some of the first pioneers to settle Rochester Hills Michigan, are documented. After Joshua Van Hoosen marries Sarah Taylor and buys up the Taylor family lands, he establishes Van Hoosen Farm and raises two daughters, Alice and Bertha. Joshua and Sarah instill in them the pioneer spirit and send them both to college at the University of Michigan. Under the most unlikely of circumstances, Bertha becomes a world famous surgeon and founder of the American Women's Medical Association. Alice becomes a school teacher, wife and mother to Sarah Van Hoosen Jones, who goes on to complete a PhD in animal genetics from the University of Wisconsin and becomes the world's first female Master Farmer. Throughout struggle and strife both home and abroad, the Van Hoosen legacy survives because of the accomplishments of four ordinary, yet incredible women.
- Explores the effects of chemical pollution on the inhabitants and environment of Sarnia, Ontario.
- Twenty years after his first documentary assignment to Afghanistan, journalist Arthur Kent returns to examine life under the Taliban regime.
- Two young individuals living in Detroit embark on a journey to tell the story of the Holocaust through their own artistic medium in order to carry on the history for generations to come.
- In A Celtic Awakening, Faith Marion Robinson, embarks on a musical voyage throughout Irish history. The concert was captured live at the Historic Masonic Temple Chapel in Detroit, Michigan and on location in various counties through Ireland. Now viewers can come along for the heartwarming and emotional journey in Faith's first Public TV special.
- Seven years after the Gulf War, Arthur Kent returns to Iraq to find the people of that country trapped between a cruel dictator and the international sanctions intended to defeat him.
- An in-depth look at how hospice has historically changed the way we approach caring for those who are dying in today's society.
- MetroArts is a television program that features artists in and around the Metropolitan Detroit area representing the disciplines of visual, performing, and communication arts.
- The life and career of legendary radio host J.P McCarthy remembered by his family, friends and associates.
- Today, in the first decade of the 21st century, the United States is facing an energy crossroads. In the next 40 years, by the year 2050 more or less, we will have to rebuild all of our power plants, reduce greenhouse gases by 50%, and completely transform our power grid--all while meeting a 30% increase in demand for electric power. How will we do that? Episode 1 discusses our current energy mix and their associated benefits and challenges: coal (carbon capture and sequestration), natural gas (hydraulic fracturing), and the renaissance of nuclear power.
- Episode 2 continues the discussion of our current energy mix and their associated benefits and challenges. Nuclear energy now supplies 70% of our low-carbon electricity. There have been no major accidents in the United States since Three Mile Island, but some close calls: corrosion detected in 2002 at the Davis-Besse plant could have caused a meltdown if uncorrected. All of the current U.S. nuclear plants are to be retired in the next 40 years, but cost overruns and the continuing problem of nuclear waste disposal cast doubt on the long-term viability of nuclear power. Renewables, mainly solar and wind, show great promise; technological advances have increased efficiency. But they share a common problem: how to store their output so the current keeps flowing when the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing. Popular resistance to the noise and unattractiveness of large-scale wind-turbine installations, such as the proposed Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, is another roadblock to greater use of renewable energy. Finally, the current and future state of our electrical transmission grid is discussed. The 2003 blackout caused 10 billion dollars in damages and left 50 million customers without electricity. Problems with the grid are not related to the generation of electricity; they are caused by the use of controls and sensors first designed in the 19th century. The proposed "smart grid" makes use of 21st century digital sensors to make it much more efficient and responsive.