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Coming Soon! Premieres Monday, April 22, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. The dramatic and inspiring story of ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of their families. In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York, discovered that their homes, schools, and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical waste dump. Housewives activated to create a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.

American Experience"Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal"Premieres Monday, April 22 on PBS and Streaming on PBS.orgDocumentary Tells the Story of One of the Nation’s Most Notorious Envir

“Poisoned” airs at 9 tonight on WNED-TV and PBS stations across the country. It repeats at 4:30 p.m. Saturday on WNED.

Nationally, this year’s World Series reportedly was the least-watched on record, averaging 9.11 million viewers.

In February 1946, Sgt. Isaac Woodard, a decorated Black soldier just returning from World War II, rode a Greyhound bus, heading home to South Carolina. Woodard, who had just been honorably discharged from the Army and was still wearing his uniform, asked the bus driver to stop so that he could use the restroom. The driver reluctantly pulled over after calling Woodard “boy.” Woodard, who had just returned from more than three years of military service in the Pacific, stood up for himself and other Black veterans, telling the driver not to talk to him like that. “I’m a man just like you...