Race in America & More Set for Tonight's MetroFocus on THIRTEEN

The award-winning series MetroFocus premieres new episodes in the New York and tri-state region weeknights at 5 p.m. on WLIW21, 5:30 p.m. on NJTV and 6 p.m. on THIRTEEN. All episodes are available at metrofocus.org following the broadcast.

The episodes description for tonight, Monday, August 8 follow below. Please note episode descriptions are subject to change. Please visit metrofocus.org for the latest information.

Monday, August 8 at 5:00 p.m. on WLIW21, 5:30 p.m. on NJTV and 6:00 p.m. on THIRTEEN: Race in America: Latino Perspective - Race is one of the nation's hot button issues, with opinions on all sides. Last year, The New York Times launched a series of documentaries titled Conversations on Race that examined race relations and discrimination. One of those documentaries, "A Conversation with Latinos on Race," follows the intimate stories of 13 LATINO AMERICANS and reveals their challenges with race on personal and universal levels. Two filmmakers on that project, director Michèle Stephenson and producer Geeta Gandbhir, weigh in on the series and issues of race that the Latino community deals with.

The Presidents: A Preview - American presidents hold the most powerful office on earth one that occupies a unique seat at the table of history and that inevitably shapes all of our futures for decades to come. This election year, the PBS documentary series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE is taking us inside the oval office with its special presentation The Presidents, which looks at the critical moments of a consequential modern president, from JFK to George H.W. Bush. Tonight, we explore the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon with Tim Naftali, former director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, ahead of the documentaries of President KENNEDY on August 8th and 9th, President Johnson on August 10th, and President Nixon on August 11th.

Unknown New York: North Brother Island - An uninhabited island in the East River, North Brother Island, was once used to quarantine people with infectious diseases and later used as a juvenile detention center. When its doors were closed to visitors in 1963, the buildings were abandoned, and THE ISLAND was left to itself. Then in 2008, photographer Christopher Payne got permission from the New York Parks Department to make trips to THE ISLAND and document what THE ISLAND looks like. More than 50 years later, Payne's book of photographs, North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City, shows what has elapsed during the time that has passed.

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