AOL Time Warner Announces Company-Wide Celebration of Black History Month.

Business Editors/Entertainment Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2001

America Online, Atlanta Hawks, CNN, HBO, TBS Superstation,

TIME Magazine, TIME School Publishing, Timeforkids.com, TNT,

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Turner Classic Movies,

Turner South, and WEA Corp. Fulfilling the Company's Commitment

to Honoring African-Americans Through a Range of

Educational and Entertaining Events

AOL Time Warner today announced a host of events, spanning the Company's divisions, to celebrate Black History Month. The extensive schedule of events and activities -- ranging from HBO's 14-city film festival to Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s star-studded "Trumpet Awards" to Time For Kids' interactive Black History Month web site -- fulfills the Company's commitment to honoring and supporting African-Americans.

The events span numerous divisions of AOL Time Warner, and include:

-- America Online will offer a wide array of special content throughout the
service in honor of Black History Month. AOL@School will explore Black History
all month long with areas created specifically for students and teachers. AOL
Kids Only has developed a Black History Month special honoring great
African-Americans. AOL Kids Only has also teamed up with Time For Kids to
develop a "SuperSite" which includes an interactive timeline, audio clips from
famous civil rights speeches, and bios of famous African-Americans. AOL
Research & Learn will dedicate the main "History" screen to the history of
African-Americans.

-- The Atlanta Hawks will challenge students in Atlanta's middle schools to
participate in a Black History Month Art Contest. This annual program is
sponsored by the Hawks Foundation in partnership with the Fannie Mae
Foundation.

-- CNN Newsroom programming will highlight a Shelley Walcott profile of Spike
Lee and the historic Apollo Theater; Tom Haynes documents his ride with Harold
Martin, drag racer and founder of Martin Motorsports; and Mike McManus
interviews Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson. CNN Headline
News will present "28 days of Headliners," brief, informative highlights
featuring prominent African-American or African newsmakers or events such as
Olympic Gold Medallist runner Wilma Rudolph; Hank Aaron; the Martin Luther King
Jr. family; Pulitzer Prize-winning author and performer Maya Angelou; opera
singer Leontyne Price; tennis star and AIDS activist Arthur Ashe; singer Lena
Horne; Muhammad Ali; U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and
dancer/choreographer Judith Jamison.

-- HBO's "Sharing The Stories" campaign premieres two new HBO Films by black
directors: "Dancing in September" (Feb. 3, 9:00 p.m. ET), written and directed
by Reggie Rock Bythewood and "Boycott" (Feb. 24, 8:00 p.m. ET), directed by
Clark Johnson; and encores of HBO Films' "Disappearing Acts," the documentaries
"Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks" and "Bill Russell: My
Life, My Way." The campaign, which continues HBO's tradition of telling stories
that honor the achievements of African-Americans also includes a 14-city film
festival with a retrospective of HBO original films and a national contest that
challenges young adults to create artistic works to express how they've endured
difficult "crossroads" in their lives

-- TBS Superstation will dedicate the month of February to celebrate Black
History Month, highlighting 28 influential Americans with diverse cultural
backgrounds. The Public Service Announcement (PSA) campaign, "Great American
Moments," features students, ages 9-18, in PSAs on such influential American
icons as Gordon Parks, Mahalia Jackson, Colin Powell and Arthur Ashe. The PSAs
will air locally on WTBS, nationally on TBS Superstation and regionally on
Turner South, covering the southeastern U.S. These PSAs will continue to air on
TBS Superstation year-round in 2001 and will reflect the achievements of many
Americans from a variety of diverse cultures.

-- TIME Magazine has partnered with BlackPlanet.com and throughout the month of
February will provide some of its archived stories to BlackPlanet, allowing
BlackPlanet users to access historic profiles of black leaders such as Marian
Anderson and Thurgood Marshall.

-- Timeforkids.com will feature a comprehensive Black History Month area at
www.timeforkids.com that will include: an illustrated click-through timeline of
black history from slavery to the Million Man March; pictures and audio
excerpts of famous speeches in black history, including some by Martin Luther
King Jr., Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson; and a civil rights
trivia game.

-- TIME School Publishing has also joined with HBO to raise awareness of the
1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. HBO's historical docu-drama "Boycott" dealing with
the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott will air on February 24 and TSP's "Boycott"
site on Timeclassroom.com will feature content and information about the
historic boycott. The site will feature an interactive timeline with pictures
and text, one-on-one interviews with prominent black studies scholars, the
original 1955 TIME Magazine coverage of the entire boycott, a closer look at
some of the famous figures who played key roles in the boycott, a gallery of
original and reproduced period documents from the boycott period, including
boycott fliers, meeting minutes, and information disseminated by Martin Luther
King Jr. while president of the Montgomery Improvement Association.

-- TNT's observance includes "Passing Glory," a TNT Original film starring
Andre Braugher and Rip Torn, on Saturday, Feb. 10; "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"
on Friday, Feb. 16; "Ghosts of Mississippi" on Saturday, Feb. 17; and "Freedom
Song," a TNT Original film starring Danny Glover, on Sunday, Feb. 18. TNT
Learning, a joint partnership between Turner Learning and TNT, will provide
schools nationwide with the TNT Original films "Freedom Song" and "Passing
Glory" with accompanying teaching guides offering extensive curriculum
connections.

-- Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s "2001 Trumpet Awards," honors
African-American achievers in fields as diverse as law, politics and
entertainment. This year, TBS, Inc. honored Ray Charles, Willie Mays, Leslie
Uggams, Maynard Jackson and others. The star-studded awards ceremony, hosted by
Richard Roundtree on January 8th, will air in a special presentation on TBS
Superstation Saturday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. (ET).

-- Turner Classic Movies will mark Black History Month with a month-long
schedule of classic films featuring themes from religion to racism to coming of
age. The schedule includes, among others, "The Defiant Ones," "Green Pastures,"
and "Cabin in the Sky."

-- Turner South will air "In Black and White," a special reuniting four civil
rights photographers, as well as the "2001 Trumpet Awards." A new episode of
"Southern Living Presents," slated to air Monday, Feb. 26, will profile some of
Alabama's most important civil rights cities and feature a rare interview with
architect and artist Maya Lin, who created the National Civil Rights Memorial
in Montgomery. Turner South will also air the PSAs scheduled to run on TBS
Superstation.

-- WEA Corp., Warner Music Group's U.S. distribution company, launched its
annual campaign "The Rhythm of History" that promotes top-selling urban catalog
titles and celebrates the pioneers of urban music. The campaign features
classic albums from artists including Ray Charles, John Coltrane, The Drifters,
Charles Mingus, Keith Sweat, Natalie Cole and others. WEA's Black History Month
Web site (www.black-history-month.com) features a link to top urban online
partners and to popular urban Web sites.

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