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What’s Available NOW On
“Wicked Tuna: Season 10”
(Available now)
“Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken”
(Available now)
“Wander Over Yonder: Seasons
1-3” (Available now)
“Special Agent Oso: Seasons
1-2” (Available now)
The new season of the National
Geographic series finds the boat captains
of Gloucester, Mass., scrapping to get by.
The pandemic has forced the shuttering
of restaurants and thus has driven down
demand and prices for bluefin tuna. But
the difficult times have forged a spirit
of cooperation among this notoriously
competitive group as they share fishing
locations and tactics, among other things.
Steve Miner (“Friday the 13th Part 2,”
“House”) stepped away from slasher
movies to direct this delightful 1991
family drama that stars Gabrielle Anwar
(“Scent of a Woman,” “Burn Notice”)
as a Depression-era orphan who pursues
her dream of joining a high-diving horse
act and plunge 40 feet into a tank of
water. Michael Schoeffling and Cliff
Robertson also star.
Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock”) and
“SpongeBob SquarePants” cohorts Tom
Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke are among
the voice cast in this 2013-16 animated
series that follows the adventures of the
ever-optimistic Wander (McBrayer),
whose aspirations to do good as he
rides across the galaxy often put him in
conflict with the dastardly Lord Hater
(voice of Keith Ferguson).
Ford Riley (“The Lion Guard”) was
the creative force behind this animated
2009-12 Disney Channel series about
the titular special agent-in-training
who always needs the help of others to
complete his assigned tasks after failing
on the first attempt. Sean Astin (“Rudy”)
provides the voice of Oso, alongside
Meghan Strange, Gary Anthony
Williams and Phill Lewis.
BY JAY BOBBIN
DeNeen L. Brown
In building on your job as a
Washington Post journalist to
produce and report “Tulsa: The Fire
and the Forgotten” on the 100th
anniversary of the Tulsa Race
Massacre, what was your intention
in doing the program?
OF ‘TULSA: THE FIRE AND
THE FORGOTTEN’ ON PBS
to cover up the massacre. They called it
an embarrassment.
When I was reporting on the story at the
University of Tulsa, the curator there told
me that when he arrived in 1980, he
found that someone had gone through
the magazines and all of the periodicals
Much of Black history was deliberately
and used a razor to cut out any article
left out of our textbooks in the schools in that mentioned the massacre. Many of
the United States, so that meant hundreds the white people would not talk about
of thousands of schoolchildren did not
it because their grandparents were
know about this history of the Tulsa Race perpetrators in the massacre. Many of
Massacre. In fact, many students who
the Black people often whispered about
went to school in Oklahoma were not
it because some had a fear that it might
taught about this massacre that occurred reoccur.
in their hometown. After the massacre
Given the social upheaval in
occurred, many of the civic leaders and
city leaders in Tulsa deliberately set out
America lately, do you consider this
an especially appropriate time to
shine such a light on the subject?
We have to talk about race in America.
We have to talk about the impact of
these racial massacres and lynchings
of Black people in America and other
people in America. I think it is imperative
that people understand.
When you see people talking about or
crying out for reparations, you have to
understand the history from which that
pain comes from. It has to be taught in
schools throughout the country, so that
we have a better understanding of where
we are today.