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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 Appropriations Committee, joins Joe Paolino Jr. to discuss legislation she has been fighting to get pa...

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 are one person yesterday, and today they’re somebody else, and tomorrow, who knows? I think creat...

*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 spied on civil rights activist and leader Martin Luther King, Jr.  The film premiered at 2020’s Toro...