Llewellyn Smith has contributed to many award-winning PBS series, including From Jumpstreet, A Story of Black Music (1982) and Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1985). From 1988 to 1995 Smith was Series Editor for PBS's American Experience, where he played an editorial role in originating, developing and acquiring more than 70 programs on American history. Credits as writer/ producer/director include Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (1997) Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory (2001), Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003), Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2004). His latest film is Forgotten Genius, a two-hour NOVA biography of Dr. Percy Julian, the pioneering chemist and civil rights activist, airing February, 2007. His company Vital Pictures is currently producing with California Newsreel the 4-hour PBS series "Hidden Epidemic: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" scheduled for broadcast Fall 2007.