Brooklyn, N.Y. - September 9, 2025 - POV, the multi-Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary, presents A Mother Apart, a film that follows mother Staceyann Chin, who balances the struggle of being abandoned at a young age by her mother, and as a mother who is trying to change her family's generational cycle of abandonment. Directed by Laurie Townshend (Charley, The Railpath Hero) and produced by Alison Duke (Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story), Ngardy Conteh George (Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story), and Justine Pimlott (Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance), the film celebrates Staceyann Chin's healing journey of becoming the mother she always needed, revealing that compassion and grace are possible-even when the past is marked by loss.

NEW YORK (June 30, 2025) - AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, the Peabody Award-winning series by Black Public Media (BPM) and WORLD, brings two powerful stories featuring LGBTQ+ protagonists to Season 17. The films - Neptune Frost, by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, and Mama Gloria, by Luchina Fisher - present an Afrofuturistic tale of an intersex hacker and the real-life story of a pioneering trans woman. Presented by Black Public Media, WORLD and PBS Plus, AfroPoP remains the only U.S.-based public media show focused on independent documentaries and narrative films from across the global African diaspora.

The newest episode of Black Public Media's AfroPoP Digital Shorts premieres on Monday, August 21, with Portal from acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Evans.

NEW YORK (May 11, 2023) - Harlem-based Black Public Media (BPM), a national arts nonprofit known in part for its award-winning documentary series AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange (now in its 15th season) is unveiling AfroPoP Digital Shorts. The new series, which delivers contemporary stories about life, art and culture from all corners of the African diaspora, will launch its inaugural season on Black Public Media's YouTube channel on Monday, May 22.