Jun 04 Watch 2:46 How the coronavirus crisis offers a glimpse of what poor, black communities ‘feel every day’ Long lines to enter stores. Anxiety about finding food on the shelves. Boarded up businesses and barren streets. Journalist and author Dawn Turner says this pandemic has afforded everyone the chance to understand what people who live in poor communities… Continue watching
Jun 02 Wes Unseld, NBA Rookie of Year and MVP in 1969, dies at 74 By Associated Press Basketball Hall of Famer Wes Unseld has died at age 74. Unseld is one of two players in NBA history to win Rookie of the Year and MVP awards in the same season. He died Tuesday after a series of… Continue reading
Jun 01 5 book covers that show how Ann Petry’s ‘The Street’ was depicted over time By Courtney Vinopal, Tayari Jones Ann Petry’s “The Street” was the first novel by a black woman to sell more than a million copies. But over the years, not all of its covers conveyed the complex themes of race and class. Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch 11:33 Roxane Gay, Anna Deavere Smith and Tay Anderson on the protests’ hope and despair By Judy Woodruff, Anne Azzi Davenport, Courtney Norris For analysis of the deeper systemic issues that are underlying the country’s civic unrest, Judy Woodruff talks to Roxane Gay, a noted essayist and author whose work frequently addresses issues of race, identity and privilege; Anna Deavere Smith, award-winning playwright… Continue watching
Jun 01 Sistine Chapel, other famed museums reopen across Europe By Raf Casert, Peter Dejong, Associated Press As Europe slowly emerges from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed well over 150,000 of its people and crippled some of the world's biggest economies, Monday let a brilliant ray shine through as some of the top museums globally reopened… Continue reading
May 31 Christo, artist known for massive, fleeting displays, dies By Associated Press Along with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, the artists careers were defined by their ambitious art projects that quickly disappeared soon after they were erected. In 2001, he installed more than 7,500 vinyl gates in New York’s Central Park and and… Continue reading
May 29 ‘American Spy’ is our June book club pick By Courtney Vinopal Our June book club pick is a thrilling story about an intelligence officer who navigates love, family and duty in the years leading up to the end of the Cold War. Continue reading
May 28 Watch 3:30 A young Black pastor’s Brief But Spectacular take on preaching with hope Todd Johnson is the youngest pastor in Warren, Ohio, and preaches at the oldest black Baptist congregation in Trumbull County. He says he has always felt driven to help the people he serves, especially during difficult times -- such as… Continue watching
May 28 WATCH: Fauci remembers AIDS activist Larry Kramer for ‘extraordinary courage’ By Molly Finnegan Dr. Anthony Fauci credited playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer for "totally" changing the relationship between communities afflicted with a disease and the scientific and regulatory bodies whose work affects them. Continue reading
May 27 Watch 2:10 Remembering influential AIDS activist Larry Kramer By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport Playwright and pioneering AIDS activist Larry Kramer has died of pneumonia at age 84. He fought for greater resources and awareness of HIV, as well as for gay rights, during the 1980s and 1990s. Kramer was also a novelist and… Continue watching