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Foundation Highlights

  • The third season of the award-winning Molly of Denali premieres next month on November 7 on GBH 2. Molly and her friends will create their own Alaska Native superheroes, host a Yup’ik exchange student and volunteer to count endangered beluga whales in Cook Inlet.
  • Aspiring high school student teams across Massachusetts are getting ready for GBH’s 14th annual High School Quiz Show® qualifying event, known as “Super Sunday,” on November 6. Registration is open until November 1.
  • Krystnell Storr, who joins GBH as the first-ever science and equity editor for NOVA, says she has landed the “dream job.”
  • Throughout history, African Americans have created a dynamic community and culture that flourished beyond the color line. Making Black America: Through the Grapevine celebrates those places and institutions that were forged in their own image as acts of resistance and expressions of joy. The four-part series airs Tuesdays in October at 9pm on GBH 2. The series is available on GBH Passport starting October 4.
  • Norm Abram, who recently retired as master carpenter of This Old House, will get quite a birthday present this year.As he turns 73 on October 3, Abram will be sent off in style with a one-hour tribute special The House that Norm Built, which will air on GBH 2 and across the nation on PBS on Monday, Oct. 3 at 9pm. The special will highlight his 43-year career with classic moments, archived footage, interviews and memories from celebrities, friends, peers and those who worked alongside him.
  • New this school year, GBH’s U.S. History Collection is a comprehensive set of media-rich resources for the nation’s educators. Designed to introduce students to multiple perspectives, the Collection will help middle and high school students develop critical thinking skills when learning about and interpreting history.
  • Sandra López Burke grew up in Brownsville, Texas, but for the past couple of decades she has been steeped in Boston communities, education, and politics — emotionally and professionally. As GBH’s new managing director of community and government relations, López Burke will oversee programming at the GBH Boston Public Library Studio and will be responsible for government relations; manage GBH's Community Advisory Board, which provides valuable feedback to the organization on its programs and activities related to audiences and the community; and manage the Apsell/GBH STEM Scholarship for Boston Public Schools students.
  • Filmmaker Michael Kirk is no stranger to political intrigue and upheaval. With more than 100 FRONTLINE documentaries in his portfolio, he has captured the drama of how Washington, D.C., really works, with close examinations of the people who occupy the most powerful roles in our country. In his new documentary, Lies, Politics and Democracy, he captures today’s unprecedented level of unrest and polarization leading to a fundamental crisis for American democracy.
  • The story of the Holocaust is a failure of humanness, said filmmaker Ken Burns. “It’s such an abysmal lapse of all the things that are what humanity should be about,” he said.
  • Welcome to Hope Street, a new crime series available on GBH Passport that shines a light on everyday life in Northern Ireland.