Samm-Art Williams

Debbie Allen stars in her own primetime variety special.

The story follow legendary railroad worker John Henry during the late 19th century.

A primetime TV concert special celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Theater with Motown legends.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."