I dunno. Like so much other PBS Black History Month stuff, I didn't find most the program very compelling.

As I watched the bit on the guitar, I kept thinking "why didn't the guy contact Jr & track down the Guild guy on his own?"

It just didn't seem like much of a mystery & we didn't even get to learn anything about the first African American signature guitar, which was supposed to be the point of the bit, wasn't it?

So-when do we get to learn about the actual first African American signature guitar? Never?

As to the "place of birth of hip hop" segment: yawn. Origins of myths are boring to me, and like this segment, was an exercise in tail chasing.

The segment on the slave songs, on the other hand, was genuinely fascinating, and made me wish the whole program had been focused on it!