Feb 11 Watch White House Celebrates Civil Rights Movement Through Music The civil rights era produced some of the most memorable songs in American music history. In an excerpt from the PBS program "In Performance at the White House," President and Mrs. Obama toast Black History Month with a celebration of… Continue watching
Feb 10 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Ruben Blades By Tom LeGro, Mary Jo Brooks On Wednesday’s PBS NewsHour, we profile international salsa star Ruben Blades, who after spending five years as a cabinet minister in Panama, has made a return to music. At 61, Blades is now back… Continue reading
Feb 10 Wednesday’s Headlines: Snowstorms Pound the East; Greek Workers Strike -- A plow removes snow in front of the News Corp building in Manhattan during a snowstorm Wednesday. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) The second powerful snowstorm to hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast in less than a week has,… Continue reading
Feb 10 Watch Musician Ruben Blades Blends Activism with Afro-Cuban Rhythm Panamanian salsa musician and actor Ruben Blades has been known to blend social issues like poverty and corruption into his music, but he also mixes art and advocacy in his work as a lawyer and public official. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Feb 08 Weekly Poem: ‘Those Winter Sundays’ By Tom LeGro Robert Hayden was the first black poet to be chosen as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. Continue reading
Feb 05 Michele Voltaire Marcelin Reads Poetry Inspired by Haiti Michele Voltaire Marcelin is a poet, actress, painter and writer who was born in Port-au-Prince in 1955 and currently lives and teaches in New York. Continue reading
Feb 05 Michele Voltaire Marcelin Poet Michele Voltaire Marcelin reads some of her poems. Continue reading