Dec 04 Watch 2:58 Appreciating the ‘powerful good’ of the public library As the American Library Association bestows its 2018 “I Love My Librarian” awards, librarian Kristen Arnett expresses her humble opinion on why visiting a library is the best way to show your appreciation. Continue watching
Dec 03 Discussion questions for ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’ By Elizabeth Flock Casey Gerald's memoir is about attaining and then questioning the American dream. Continue reading
Nov 28 Watch 5:56 ‘A Separation’ author Katie Kitamura answers your questions By Jeffrey Brown Katie Kitamura, author of our November pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “A Separation,” plus Jeff announces December’s book. Continue watching
Nov 28 December’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’ By Elizabeth Flock "There Will Be No Miracles Here" is part memoir and part meditation, tracing Casey Gerald's journey from his childhood in a poor neighborhood in Dallas all the way to Yale and the halls of power. Continue reading
Nov 28 One poet’s advice for feeling at home in the unfamiliar By Jennifer Hijazi It is in our quiet observations, poet Jenny Xie says, that we can find ourselves when we’re on the move. Continue reading
Nov 27 ‘SpongeBob’ creator Stephen Hillenburg dies of ALS at 57 By Andrew Dalton, Associated Press Hillenburg conceived, wrote, produced and directed the animated series Spongebob SquarePants that began in 1999 and bloomed into hundreds of episodes, movies and a Broadway show. Continue reading
Nov 26 Watch 3:15 Remembering the career of filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci By Jeffrey Brown On Monday, Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci died at his home in Rome. The director earned both praise and condemnation for movies, such as “Last Tango in Paris,” that included graphic content and tackled sensitive topics. Jeffrey Brown takes a look… Continue watching
Nov 24 Watch 5:42 Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green As Black Lives Matter protests erupted in 2014 after a police officer killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in D.C. sent curators to collect t-shirts and gas masks -- artifacts it could… Continue watching
Nov 23 Watch 6:15 In ‘Green Book,’ a black pianist and his white driver forge a bond amidst Jim Crow By Jeffrey Brown "Green Book," a new film based on the true story of black concert pianist Don Shirley, explores what happens when he hires a white bouncer to drive him through the dangerous Deep South in the Jim Crow era. Director Peter… Continue watching
Nov 23 Watch 3:24 How musician Nathaniel Rateliff stopped ‘treading water’ and found his sound By Frank Carlson Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats has been attracting attention for its soulful rhythm and blues and its frontman Rateliff’s song lyrics--but it was a long road to get here. The NewsHour spoke with Rateliff before a recent show at… Continue watching