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COMING FEBRUARY 9TH
NORTH TO NEW YORK
A companion piece to Henry Louis Gates Jr's PBS original documentary series Great Migrations: A People on the Move, WMHT's North to New York: The Capital Region & the Great Migration is an original documentary about the history and legacy of those that left all they knew behind to make the Capital Region home.
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE
A promised community connector is now a monument to division, though the work of local organizers hopes to bring the Hoosick Bridge's original mission back into frame. Through The Uniting Line project, local artist Jade Warrick installed murals throughout the bridge's surface area to transform and beautify the space.
HENRY JOHNSON: A TALE OF COURAGE
Henry Johnson was an African American U.S. Army soldier who fought heroically in the 369th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army in World War I. In May 1918 in the Argonne Forest of Northeast France, Johnson fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier before fainting from the 21 wounds with which he was afflicted.
