Sep 15 FBI File Provides Key to Revealing Civil Rights Photographer’s Spying This week, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported that celebrated civil rights-era photographer Ernest Withers had been a paid informant for the FBI, reporting on the whereabouts and activities of the movement's leaders -- many of whom considered him a… Continue reading
Sep 15 Author Per Petterson Reads from Newly Translated Novel “I Curse the River of Time” Norwegian author Per Petterson reads from his novel "I Curse this River of Time."… Continue reading
Sep 15 Mexico Dispatch: Tijuana Is No Juarez, Residents Say TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, Mexico | Toiling with a pile of wood planks in his garage turned woodshop, 46-year-old Roberto Carrillo exclaims without hesitation: "Tijuana is not Ciudad Juarez. We don't have the level of violence that you read… Continue reading
Sep 15 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, David Foster Wallace's last, unfinished work will be published next year. Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch Texas Poet Twists Newsprint Into Verse Austin Kleon is a Texas-based poet, writer, cartoonist and designer. He's found a playful way of making poetry from discarded newspapers, as demonstrated in his new book "Newspaper Blackout." Jeffrey Brown reports as part of the NewsHour's poetry series. Continue watching
Sep 14 Mexico Dispatch: Perception vs. Reality at One Beach Town ROSARITO BEACH, Mexico | Walking or driving down boulevard Benito Juarez, the main street of Rosarito Beach, gives no hints of the struggles this tourist community has been fighting for the past four years. As the sun sinks over… Continue reading
Sep 14 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Austin Kleon’s ‘Newspaper Blackout’ Austin Kleon is a Texas-based poet, writer, cartoonist and designer. He's found a playful way of making poetry from the newspaper. His first book, "Newspaper Blackout," was published this summer. Continue reading
Sep 14 Update | Mott’s Strike Settled: Workers Returning to Apple Sauce Factory By Paul Solman There was considerable viewer interest in last week's story on increased U.S. productivity being caused by a reservoir of unemployed workers, allowing firms to pressure workers to toil longer and harder for the same or lower wages. Our… Continue reading
Sep 14 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a photographer who made some of the most famous images of the Civil Rights era was also spying on his subjects. Continue reading
Sep 13 Weekly Poem: ‘Antietam’ By Tom LeGro Sandra Beasley is the author of "I Was the Jukebox," winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Theories of Falling," winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. Continue reading