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PBS And Ken Burns Vow To Do Better On Diversity But Critics Aren't Convinced

1:57pm August 12, 2021

by Eric Deggans

PBS has announced $11 million in grants to boost diversity among documentary filmmakers months after an open letter accused the service of unfairly favoring white creators.

Filmmaker Ken Burns says America is "defined as much by our challenges and the dark moments as we are by our successes." You can explore U.S. history in scenes selected from more than 40 documentaries at Burns' UNUM site. Above, the sun rises behind the U

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Ken Burns Says U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation

2:59pm January 19, 2021

by Rachel Martin

Documentarian Ken Burns believed there were three major crises in the nation's past: The Civil War, the Depression and World War II. Now, he says, we are living through the fourth.

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