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Sunday news shows in RI, Feb. 28, 2021 The Providence Journal Newsmakers (5:30 a.m., Ch. 12; 10 a.m., Ch. 64; 7 p.m., Ch. 64.2)  Kim Kalunian interviews R.I. Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott about the one-year anniversary of Rhode Island’s first coronavirus case and how the experience has changed her; Tim White and Ted Nesi examine the major hospital merger proposed this week. In the Arena (7 a.m., Ch. 6)  U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., chairwoman of the House Ap...

What do you think it is about the 1960s that makes for great storytelling? What still resonates? Willmott: America was created in the Revolutionary War, and then it was kind of re-created in the Civil War and then was re-created again in the ‘60s. They’re actually like three different Americas. We’re still living in the one that was created in the ‘60s. But that fight has never really gone away: the fight over the forms of America. Martel: It’s an era of radical change. The characters...

*MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard is speaking out about the acclaimed documentary based on the government’s history of targeting Black activists. According to the official synopsis, the doc is an essential expose of the surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (labeled by the FBI as the “most dangerous” Black person in America), undertaken by J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S. government. The Emmy Award-winner and Oscar-nominee delves into the years when the FBI relentlessly spi...

‘MLK/FBI’ Director: ‘America Has Reached a Tipping Point’ TheWrap magazine: “Let’s hope that the fact that communities are being galvanized can make progress toward a change in the American psyche,” Sam Pollard saysSteve Pond | January 22, 2021 @ 4:52 PM Last Updated: January 22, 2021 @ 5:19 PM AWARDS BEAT Field of Vision A version of this story about “MLK/FBI” and Sam Pollard first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The documenta...

“MLK/FBI,” which IFC Films will release in theaters and on-demand Friday, chronicles one of the darkest chapters in the bureau’s history: the yearslong...

change volume WTOPs Jason Fraley reviews MLK/FBI If you missed it at the Middleburg Film Festival or the Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival back in October, you can finally watch “MLK/FBI” from the comfort of your home. The provocative documentary is now streaming just in time for the MLK holiday. The film chronicles civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he is investigated, wiretapped and harassed by the FBI under the iron fist of Director J. Edgar Hoover between...

Documentary looks at Hoover’s attempt to ruin Martin Luther King Jr. Ed Symkus More Content Now History tells us that J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI from 1924 to 1972. James Earl Jones, in a short voiceover near the start of “MLK/FBI,” tells us, “From 1955 to 1968, Martin Luther King led a peaceful 20th-century American revolution.” In this documentary that looks at the achievements and interactions of both men, mostly during the 1960s, it’s suggested that Hoover was attempting to prot...

A year ago the official Twitter account of the Federal Bureau of Investigation tweeted, "Today, the FBI honors the life and work of the Reverend Dr.