ABC To Re-Air Historic Special ‘Taking The Stage’ Tonight To Celebrate African American Music, Culture, And History
Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticOn the heels of last week’s rebroadcast of John Ridley’s powerful 2017 documentary , Let It Fall, about the 1992 race riots in Los Angeles, ABC is again reaching into its vaults from 2017 for a re-broadcast tonight of the two hour special that aired on January 11th of that year called Taking The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America. a network special commemorating the opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Quincy Jones and Don Mischer teamed up to produce the momentous event , and in light of everything that has happened in this country in the weeks since George Floyd’s horrendous death the pair