"Valerie Linson is the Series Producer for
Basic Black and the Executive Editor for its accompanying website at WGBH.
Basic Black is Boston's longest-running television program devoted to explorations of the black experience. In her experience with independent documentary film, Linson produced
Inheritors of the Faith, an episode of
This Far By Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys, a Blackside, Inc. documentary mini-series that was broadcast nationally on PBS in June 2003. Linson has also been an associate producer on several PBS documentary series including:
On Our Own Terms: Death and Dying in America (with Bill Moyers);
Free To Dance: African Americans in Modern Dance; and the documentary film
Soldiers Without Swords: The Black Press (winner of a 2000 DuPont Award and 1999 Sundance Film Festival ""Freedom of Expression"" Award). She received Emmy nominations for her research for
Free to Dance (1999) and
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices (1995). Linson has also received regional Emmy nominations for several
Basic Black programs. "
