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COMMUNITY PARTNERS

CAN TV's Community Partners Project
is a community service initiative that directly reaches Chicago neighborhoods. A key component of the project is local events coverage in which CAN TV videotapes and cablecasts public forums, town hall meetings, community events and other activities of local interest. Through this service, CAN TV provides Chicagoans with access to information they may not otherwise have through commercial television.

 


Media and Politics

Thomas Geoghegan, Former Contributing Editor of The New Republic, joins veteran journalists and former presidential speechwriters to discuss media trends and politics.

Sunday, August 1 at 9:00 a.m. on CAN TV21
1 hr. 32 mins.

Culture of Opportunity:
Obama's Chicago


The Newberry Library presents author Rebecca Janowitz giving a political and cultural portrait of Hyde Park and how it nurtured President Barack Obama’s political career.

Sunday, August 1 at 11:00 a.m. on CAN TV21
52 mins.

The Great Migration Centennial 1916 – 2016
Creating the New Promise


Bruce Montgomery, Vice President of the Black Metropolis National Area Heritage Commission, announces city and state support for revitalizing the Bronzeville community for the Great Migration Centennial.

Sunday, August 1 at 12:00 p.m. on CAN TV21
44 mins.

The Hyde Park Arts Center
Series A


Discover the meaning behind experimental writing at this reading hosted by the Hyde Park Arts Center. Poet Jenny Boully reads from her collection.

Sunday, August 1 at 1 p.m. on CAN TV21
47 mins.

The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness


Professor Michelle Alexander, author of 'The New Jim Crow', addresses the issue of mass incarceration of black men.

Sunday, August 1 at 5 p.m. on CAN TV19
53 mins.

 

 

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