Oct 03 Oregon Poet Laureate Inada Reflects on Internment By Tom LeGro Along with more than 100,000 other Japanese-Americans, Lawson Inada was sent to internment camps for the duration of World War II. He was one of the youngest to live in the camps, and much of his writing addresses that childhood… Continue reading
Oct 03 Lawson Fusao Inada By newshourpoetry Poet Lawson Fusao Inada reads some of his poems. Continue reading
Oct 03 Lawson Fusao Inada Reads 'The Stand' By newshourpoetry Poet Lawson Fusao Inada reads some of his poems, including "The Stand." In addition to his experiences at the Japanese internment camps, many of Inada's poems are influenced by his love of jazz music. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch Mexico's Violent Drug War Wreaks Havoc on Innocent Lives Just south of the U.S. in Mexico, a ruthless drug war is taking a heavy toll on residents' lives on both sides of the border. Essayist Richard Rodriguez reflects on the increasingly unmanageable conflict. Continue watching
Sep 26 Congress Passes Mental Health Parity Legislation By PBS News Hour After slogging through Congress for nearly a decade, legislation on the fair treatment of mental health conditions reached a critical milestone this week when it cleared both houses of Congress. Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch Amy Tan, San Francisco Opera Take Novel From Page to Stage Spencer Michels reports on how best-selling author Amy Tan's darkest family secrets from China became the focal points for a world-premiere opera in San Francisco. Continue watching
Sep 16 Tribe Divided Over Providing Water to Illegal Migrants Crossing Indian Land By PBS News Hour On Aug. 31, Tohono O'odham tribal members Mike Wilson and David Garcia were ordered by tribal official Veronica Harvey to take down water stations for migrants passing through Tohono O'odham reservation on the Arizona-Mexico border. Continue reading
Aug 26 Health Insurance Rates Rise, Poverty Unchanged in 2007 By PBS News Hour The number of people without health insurance in the United States fell last year for the first time since the beginning of the Bush administration, according to a report released by the Census Bureau Tuesday on poverty, income and health… Continue reading
Aug 22 Watch Something Old, Somthing New in California Weddings California's State Supreme Court decreed same-sex marriage legal in May and thousands of gay couples have headed to the altar this summer. Essayist Anne Taylor Flemming reflects on the old and the new in this wave of nuptials. Continue watching
Aug 22 Environmental Movement Finds New Supporters Among Evangelicals By PBS News Hour With gas prices and global warming playing an ever-increasing role in the national discourse, some evangelical churches have begun to focus their faith in a new direction -- on environmentalism. Continue reading