BHM - Black History Month 2006

African American Lives hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on PBS

• I saw all the previews and I was really looking forward to seeing this
• PBS is always so innovative .. yes yes I've seen hundreds of "African-American" history programs on PBS, but I could tell that this was going to be different in some way
• I was NOT disappointed
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/

Some of the remarkable ancestories traced were of:

• Oprah Winfrey
• Henry Gates, Jr. [the host himself]
• Dr. Ben Carson [reknowned neuro-surgeon]
• The Q [Quincy Jones]
• Dr. Mae Jemison [astronaut]
• Chris Tucker [yes, the comedian ... "and you know that, man"]
• Whoopi Goldberg [born Caryn Johnson]
• Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
• Bishop T.D. Jakes
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/index.html

I've only seen the 2 hour, 1st part of this 2-part series ... and yes, it was well worth watching while missing a brand new ep of Project Runway (I can catch the rerun (BTW .. there will probably be an encore of AA Lives this month so "check your local listings")

Speaking of BHM, some networks got a jump on the festivities!!! Bravo, for example, started in Jan. showing back to back to back ep's of Inside the Actors Studio which I think started with Queen Latifah, then Martin Lawrence, then Jaime Foxx, and next up (after Minelli) is Dave Chappelle. It's always interesting to see these in depth interviews (which always starts with "where were you born?" and progresses to the present day for the actor ... you always learn something new, about your fav. actor!!! Believe me, I know I know I know...I'd be flippin' channels and it's so easy to skip right over this show ... dark stage, and you wonder, who is this James Lipton anyway? ... now it's a can't miss for me.