Clip of the Week: "Dem Bahamians"

A happy snowy Monday to all! It's time for the first Clip of the Week of Black History Month, and we'd like to turn your attention to "Dem Bahamians," a weekly show from the Bahamian American Cultural Society, a nonprofit that fosters Bahamian and Caribbean cultures in the U.S., provides educational resources and nurtures unity and support among people of all backgrounds.

For today's clip, we offer up a recent episode of "Dem Bahamians" called "The Case of the Central Park Five: Its Impact on New York's Criminal Justice." The video offers an important forum exploring the legal and social implications of the wrongful imprisonment of five young black and Hispanic men whose convictions were vacated only after they served full sentences in prison. The workshop was sponsored by New York State Senator Bill Perkins, who represents much upper Manhattan. Check out the clip to learn about the case and about the broad scope of programming offered by "Dem Bahamians"!

"Dem Bahamians" will honor Black History Month with interviews and reflections every Monday in February at 2pm on MNN1. Today, host Beryl Edgecombe presents a live conversation with several of the musicians from Ensemble du Monde, a chamber orchestra in New York. The group is scheduled to perform "The People Could Fly," a work based on the African American folk tale of slaves who possessed magic that enabled them to fly to freedom, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on Saturday, February 8.

Check out "Dem Bahamians" on YouTube and Facebook, and watch every Monday at 2pm on MNN1 (TWC 34, RCN 82, FiOS 33) and streaming live.