THE NEW BLACK

MONDAY, JUNE 5 @ 11:00PM

The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is debating the marriage equality movement and the fight over LGBT rights. The film documents activists, families, and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar — the black church — while exploring ways this phenomenon may have been exploited by political conservatives.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 2 @ 9:00PM

President Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, the historic 2015 agreement that commits nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and seek to renegotiate a new deal that’s “fair” for the American people. The United States, the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, will join just two other nations – Nicaragua and Syria – to reject the climate change deal.

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THE 76TH ANNUAL PEABODY AWARDS

FRIDAY, JUNE 2 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

The Peabody Awards honor the most powerful, enlightening and invigorating stories in television, radio and digital media. One of the most prestigious events of the year, the annual Peabody Awards ceremony marks its 76th presentation in 2017. The evening program spotlights all 30 of the year’s winners along with achievement awards for Norman Lear and ITVS, the respective Individual and Institutional Award recipients. Rashida Jones, a cast member of Peabody Award-winning “Parks and Recreation,” serves as the evening’s host.

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THE 1900’S

SEPTEMBER 29 @ 8:00PM

Observe the social changes the slum dwellers face as they move into the 20th century. A few families prosper, but others continue to face the poverty endemic in Britain. See what steps are finally taken to alleviate the plight of the poor.

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POISONED WATER

SATURDAY, JUNE 3 @ 11:00PM

Water. Turn on the faucet and it’s always there. Without it we perish. But how safe is our tap water? In this special report narrated by Joe Morton, NOVA investigates what happened in Flint, Michigan, when local officials changed the city’s water source to save money, but overlooked a critical treatment process. As the water pipes corroded, lead leached into the system, exposing the community—including thousands of children—to dangerous levels of poison. NOVA uncovers the science behind this manmade disaster— from the intricacies of water chemistry to the biology of lead poisoning to the misuse of science itself.

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NATURE

TOUCHING THE WILD

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

Joe Hutto’s idea of research is anything but normal, dedicating seven years of his life to becoming a wild mule deer. The herd would ordinarily run from any human but, incredibly, these keenly intelligent animals come to regard this stranger as one of their own. Accepted by the matriarch, he walks among them, is even groomed by them, and can lie with a pregnant doe talking to its unborn fawns.

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