The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China responded. Chinese scientists and doctors, international disease experts and health officials reveal missed opportunities to suppress the outbreak, and lessons for the world.
From political struggles to the modern Hawaiian Sovereignty movement, activist photographer Ed Greevy has been capturing Hawaiʻi history since the 1970s. The LA native came to Hawaiʻi to surf as the Save Our Surf movement was ramping up, and it made him aware of threats to surfing breaks on the south shore. He documented this and other land development conflicts over the past 40 years and now has an archive of over 100,000 images.
Follow the hardships and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica. Based on the novel by Andrea Levy.
In 1929, America enters a decade of economic desperation, as the Stock Market collapses and the Great Depression begins. Factories fall silent, farms fall into decay, and a quarter of the nation's workforce is jobless. In these dark times, jazz is called upon to lift the spirits of a frightened country, and finds itself poised for a decade of explosive growth.
Defying the skeptics, Pan Am builds an airway to Asia, allowing its airplanes to hopscotch across the world's widest ocean by landing at five stepping stone islands: Hawaii, Midway, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. Air service from New York to London begins in 1939, completing a chain of airways encircling the globe.
Art in the Twenty-First Century Borderlands tells how contemporary art can challenge preconceived notions of the U.S.-Mexico border. The program features artists who see the border as an open wound, theatrical stage, political podium, studio and contradictory landscape that features both ugliness and beauty.
Since the first jazz concert in 1939, the genre has been a hallmark at the Hollywood Bowl. From then on, many music greats have graced its stage: Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis among them. See what makes jazz nights at the Hollywood Bowl such an experience as you hear from the LA Phil’s Creative Chair for Jazz, Herbie Hancock.
Get a COVID-19 vaccine. Wear a mask. Stay at least 6 feet apart. Avoid crowds. Wash your hands. These are messages we have heard over the past year as we've had to battle and navigate COVID-19 across the country and here in our state. What more can we do? Will a COVID-19 vaccine help? When will I be able to get one? What are the side effects? What's happening in our hospitals? Join us for a conversation with administrators at Hawaiʻi hospitals, and get the answers to the questions that you have.
Against all odds, African-American chemist Percy Julian became one of the great scientists of the 20th century. The grandson of Alabama slaves, Percy Julian met with every possible barrier in a deeply segregated America. He was a man of genius, devotion, and determination. As a black man he was also an outsider, fighting to make a place for himself in a profession and country divided by bigotry—a man who would eventually find freedom in the laboratory. By the time of his death, Julian had risen to the highest levels of scientific and personal achievement, overcoming countless obstacles to become a world-class scientist, a self-made millionaire, and a civil-rights pioneer.
In the second and final part of NATURE's miniseries "The Alps," experience the hostile and bitter cold ecosystems of the Alps, shaped by snow blizzards and avalanches.