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This KSPS documentary explores the fascinating science behind brain development and early learning. The brain develops most rapidly in the first three years of life, and now with new imaging technology scientists can actually watch the brain of a young child in action: how it grows, acts and reacts.

TV series made by Dr. Maya Angelou for KQED in 1968 called Blacks, Blues, Black!, which examines the influence of African American culture on modern American society.

Catch the most recent appearances by NewsHour political analysts syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.

By the mid twentieth century, Mississippi's African Americans had suffered from nearly 75 years of Jim Crow discrimination. In order to break open the closed society and improve their lives, they needed to be able to vote.

In 1959, Martin Luther King Jr was known chiefly for his role in the successful Montgomery bus boycott. It was years before his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington.

In August 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee legislators cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th Amendment, thus giving women in the United States the right to vote.

Behind the acts of violence and rage of both the Virginia Tech and Columbine shootings is a larger issue of mental illness in teens that is rarely addressed.

Need to Know is the PBS TV- and web- newsmagazine that gives you what you need to know — along with a healthy dose of insight, perspective and wit. Need to Know cuts through the noise of nonstop news to bring you the most compelling stories of the week and of our times.

WIDE ANGLE was created in 2001 as a response to the lack of in-depth international news coverage in the United States. WIDE ANGLE is the only program exclusively dedicated to international current affairs documentaries.

Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area.