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When I Rise

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Barbara Smith Conrad croppedTonight, PBS is broadcasting a documentary film, "When I Rise," about the extraordinary life of Barbara Smith Conrad.  Barbara is a gifted black mezzo-soprano who, as a music student at the University of Texas, found herself in a civil rights storm when she was cast in a leading role opposite a white student.

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