Best-bets for Feb. 23: heroics in fact and fiction
1) “Independent Lens: The Interrogator,” 10 p.m., PBS. Emerging from a hard-scrabble Houston neighborhood, Barbara Jordan (shown here) was an instant leader. Her Texas Southern University debate team beat Yale and tied Harvard. She got a law degree and was a pioneering state senator and congresswoman, delivering a potent impeachment talk. Here’s a compelling profile. Read more…