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PBS SoCal and KCET invite you to commemorate and celebrate the achievements and contributions of women to culture, history and science. First proclaimed as "Women's History Week" in 1982, Women’s History Month is now celebrated in many countries. Catch the full line-up of programs on PBS SoCal and KCET, and on the free PBS App .
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American Masters
Twyla Moves
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American Masters
American Masters: Flannery
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Independent Lens: Coded Bias
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Served Like a Girl | Trailer
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Barbara Morrison: Standing On Their Shoulders | Preview
Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart
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Southland Sessions
A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt at The Soraya
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Independent Lens
Served Like a Girl
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Artbound
Artist and Mother
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American Experience
Part 1 | The Vote | American Experience
Dolly Parton & Friends: 50 Years at the Opry
Dolly Parton & Friends: 50 Years at the Opry
Tina Turner: One Last Time
Tina Turner: One Last Time
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Lost LA
How One Woman Helped Measure the Universe
At a time when women astronomers were few and most often relegated to working as assistants, Henrietta Swan Leavitt provided the key to solving one of the most significant celestial uncertainties of her time.
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Lost LA
Biddy Mason and the Founding of Los Angeles: From Slavery to Entrepreneurship
As an enslaved woman in the south, Biddy Mason was valued highly because of her knowledge in herbal medicine, but as a free woman in Los Angeles, Mason became a boundry-breaking midwife, nurse and philantropist.
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Blue Sky Metropolis
Soaring into Herstory: The Women's Air Derby of 1929
In 1929, Santa Monica was overflowing with spectators as the host for the first Intercontinental Woman’s Air Derby, where twenty female aviators signed up to participate in the 2,759-mile course to the finish line in Cleveland, Ohio.
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A Woman's Place is in Space: Meet Eight Asian American Women Reaching for the Stars
There have been numerous women on the ground who made NASA's journeys possible. The following women are just a fraction of the Asian Americans whose remarkable work continues to impact the investigation of worlds beyond our own.
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Southland Sessions
The Rise of the Female Mariachi: A Brief History
With mainstream exposure and a growing fan base, female mariachis are making significant inroads in the historically male-dominated music genre.
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City Rising
Voices of Resilience: Stories from Women Navigating Informal Labor
Many women immigrants are often forced into informal jobs that take advantage of their precarious situation, yet their contributions often go unrecognized and their labor is exploited and undervalued.
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Southland Sessions
How Linda Ronstadt Continues to Inspire New Generations of Musicians
Linda Ronstadt is an icon in music, and she continues to use her fame to open doors for generations of musicians of Mexican American heritage and beyond.
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Southland Sessions
ACLU SoCal’s First Artist-in-Residence on Creating Art During a Fraught Time
Amid the pandemic, ACLU SoCal's first resident artist has been responding creatively in support of civil rights.
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Artbound
Advocate Above All: Watts Towers Art Center's Rosie Lee Hooks
From performing with an ensemble to working at the Smithsonian to mentoring Watts youth (including a young Nipsey Hussle), WTAC's advocate has done it all and keeps fighting for her adopted neighborhood.
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Artbound
Into the Chuckwallas: Rediscovered Desert Photographs of Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves
In the 1920s, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera, Susie Smith and her cousin Lula Mae Graves set out to photograph the last of the prospectors, burro packers and stage stops in the remote desert to the east.
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Blue Sky Metropolis
Sue Finley: Human Computer, Wife and Mother
Sue Finley began working at NASA in 1958, the year President Eisenhower announced its creation. As society changed around her, Finley also navigated the complexities of being a woman with a career, in engineering no less.
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Blue Sky Metropolis
Worth the Struggle: Diana Trujillo's Journey from Colombia to NASA
After immigrating from Colombia, Diana Trujillo took the long path to becoming an aerospace engineer at JPL, but for the Colombian aerospace engineer, it was worth it.
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Blue Sky Metropolis
Meet the Daring Women of Color Who Beat Bigotry in Aviation
Despite gender and racial discrimination, Bessie Coleman and those inspired by her blazed the trail for future female aviators.
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Lost LA
The Woman’s Building: L.A.’s “Feminist Mecca”
Throughout its 18-year run, The Woman’s Building cultivated an experimental space for women from around the world to explore ideas in feminist theory and sexuality through art.
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Departures
Rockhaven: L.A.'s First Feminist Sanitarium
Rockhaven in La Crescenta is unique among other mental institutions of its time largely because of Richards' feminist mission for a sanitarium where female patients would be treated with respect and dignity.