April 25, 2011 | Much of the Gulf Coast oil spill story can be seen in photos from the tragedy. Gerald Herbert, a professional photographer covered the spill and returned for the one year anniversary to see how things had changed. He found some...
December 24, 2010 | In the past decade, graduation rates in New York rose 10 percent. School reform in New York City, led by schools chancellor Joel Klein, is seen as a model for other urban areas facing high dropout rates and dangerous schools....
September 7, 2010 | The current recession has severely undercut the bargaining power of labor unions and workers' abilities to strike and gain concessions from company leadership. In this video, Economics Correspondent Paul Solman visits Rochester, New York, where 300 workers at the Mott's...
June 16, 2010 | As the grandson of slaves, Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. When segregation policies denied Marshall admission to the University of Maryland Law School he decided to attend Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C. instead....
April 16, 2010 | While drinkable running water and indoor toilets are standard in the United States, some of the world's poorest still live without basic sanitation. NewsHour Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports that in slums outside of Nairobi, Kenya, people for generations...
May 11, 2009 | With millions of Americans losing their jobs in the current recession, African American unemployment is reaching record levels. In East St. Louis, Illinois, black unemployment is around 30 percent. This is not as bad as the Great Depression, when the...
April 30, 2009 | How are artists reacting to the current economic situation? Poet Bob Hicok was born and raised in Michigan, worked in factories and once owned an automotive die design business there before becoming a professor at Virginia Tech. His poetry reflects...
August 19, 2008 | In this video discussion, author Tony Horwitz talks about his new book, "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World," and how the American continent during 1500s is largely a forgotten time. While most students know about Columbus sailing...
