anna deavere smith

Acclaimed writer and performer picks up the federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities

"My America" consists of 21 monologues on such hot-button topics as race and religion and has been picked up by the streaming service Fandor

"A Raisin in the Sun Revisited: The Raisin Cycle at Center Stage," a documentary that traces the arc of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama from its setting on Chicago's South Side to Baltimore's Center Stage in 2013, is one of the bolder and better things PBS has done this TV season.

Center Stage director Kwame Kwei-Armah says institutions like his theater have broad ripple effects in the economic and cultural life of the state.

Baltimore filmmaker Robert Gardner's 'Islamic Art' documentary to air on PBS