Start TV to premiere award-winning documentary, ”Who in the Hell is Regina Jones?” in February
By: Start TV Staff Posted: January 14, 2026, 1:17PM
Start TV is set to premiere the award-winning documentary, Who in the Hell is Regina Jones?, on Monday, February 16 at 8P | 7C with a special encore immediately after at 10P | 9C.
The stellar production from Weigel Productions Corp. shines a light on legendary journalist Regina Jones. The documentary, which won the Outstanding Documentary Feature Award at the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival, turns a lens on Jones’ historical journey – the invisible labor, turmoil, struggle, and joy of a modern-day Black woman, who emerged as publisher and founder of the groundbreaking SOUL newspaper. On this nationwide platform, Black artists could get coverage long before other publications entered the arena.
Pregnant and married at 15, Regina Jones experienced the Watts Rebellion of 1965, raised five children, stepped into places where she was not wanted, and navigated a world that offered her no favors. SOUL was the first publication devoted specifically to Black musicians and perspectives in music, published from 1966 to 1982. During its run, the publication profiled some of the era’s most prominent Black artists, including Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder.
Who in the Hell is Regina Jones? was produced by Weigel Productions Corp and directed by Soraya Sélène and Billy Miossi, edited by Nancy Novack A.C.E., co-edited by Alisa Selman, produced by Alissa Shapiro, and executive produced by Academy Award nominee Sam Pollard.
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Fascinating, ali! A fine piece of relatively recent Black history warranting more coverage. Thx!
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Well, I hope everyone gets START, though I guess it’s possible it’ll stream. I’m not sure where. Our local cable company receives START via antenna, for free, and broadcasts it on our cable, also for free. I like it really well when I watch. It’s woman oriented.
I hope this broadcast is well-received, so we’ll see more like it!
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Hi. Grand post Ali. … stepped into places where she was not wanted … One thing I have noticed posting about ICE is that it is women who tend to be more brave, in your face vocal, and willing to step in where few men seem to. Like the lady you wrote the post about. Yet far too often I hear that women are the weaker sex, and need protecting. Seems to me that denies reality. Hugs
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Yeah, they’re all for protecting us in their words, but not in their deeds. Women have far more to deal with, moment by moment and day by day, than most men have to deal with. And so much of what we have to deal with is because of how men have set things up for themselves without thought that others could be different from them.
Not all men, I grant.
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Hi Ali. Maybe that gives them the strong spine they have for standing up in the worst situation. Not to say they should have to or should have to do it alone. Just saying as you did in daily life women deal with a lot of bad stuff men don’t have to. Hugs
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Well, women aren’t the only ones who deal with stuff, but all women do. Sort of like Black people remaining aware of their surroundings so they can stay out of danger, as all women do. Or when I was younger, and one of my friends would need me to play his girlfriend because someone was convinced my friend was gay. As he was, but you’ve likely been there, so you know. There was dire threat,
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I have often said that women go through things men would just collapse under: childbirth, for one. They used to ‘get to stay home’ and do allll the housework, tend the kids, milk the cows, deal with clerks and neighbors, and the husband would stagger home after a brutal day in an air conditioned office…
There was a fascinating piece of business on one of the morning shows some years ago, where someone had invented a device that mimicked period pain. Sounds silly, right? The men who agreed to take part in the experiment were extremely surprised when the machine was turned on, and up one notch at a time, to the point that one or two of them slid right onto the floor from it. A new level of respect for women at that point. Too bad they didn’t have a machine that would mimic childbirth…
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Oh, my, her story! She’s featuring in this. It’s just fascinating. And she’s telling the story in the old way, as her people before her told the stories: stuff happens, it’s bad, and they still get up in the morning and get to work. Lots of photos, slides and filmstrips of family stuff, or stuff she and her husband did with the magazine or his job as a TV journalist. Her magazine-I was to young to have known about it at the time-they said it was the precursor to “Rolling Stone”, being news about music. I really hope everyone can get a chance to see this.
I keep thinking I’ll switch over to “Death In Paradise” any minute, and I just can’t turn the channel! It’s almost over, and they’re running it again, so everyone’s got a chance. I don’t know what other days it will run. It is a most excellent show.
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