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Professor Samira Mehta, Women & Gender Studies Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, is featured in a new PBS docuseries exploring the history behind black and Jewish Americans. She was also an academic consultant for the series.

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History is a four-part series tracing the rich, complex relationship between Black and Jewish Americans — defined by solidarity and strained by division. Drawn together by racism and antisemitism, they forged civic and cultural bonds, especially during the civil rights era. The series explores both the challenges and enduring promise of that alliance.

The first episode airs today.

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