BBC Witness: Black History Month

The BBC World Service presents a special hour-long edition of its Witness program, with incredible, first-person interviews about the African-American experience. Travel back to an iconic photograph from the civil rights campaign with Gloria Richardson. Hear the struggle for fair pay from Doug Williams, the first African American quarterback to play in the Superbowl. And Congresswoman Barbara Lee reflects on the moral stand she took in 2001 against the open-ended Global War on Terror. Witness presents stories that are inspiring, harrowing, and richly told.

Airs Saturday, February 16 at 10pm on AM 820 and New Jersey Public Radio

Learn more about WNYC's Black History Month programming.

Additionally, the New York Public Radio Archives is sharing some of the department's leading preservation work, series and sonic artifacts concerning African-American history. You can explore it here.