Feb 20 Watch 6:24 In ‘An American Marriage,’ a wife feels imprisoned by her husband’s wrongful incarceration By PBS News Hour “An American Marriage” explores the bonds of love in extreme circumstances, against a larger background of race and mass incarceration. Author Tayari Jones joins Jeffrey Brown to talk about her new novel, set in Atlanta and written in letter form,… Continue watching
Feb 19 ‘What we did while we made more guns’ confronts the violence of extreme belief By Jennifer Hijazi Dorothy Barresi's “What We Did While We Made More Guns” examines Americans’ anxieties and moral uncertainties in poems on international torture, war and police brutality. Continue reading
Feb 16 Watch 5:19 In ‘Black Panther,’ an African superhero shatters the Hollywood status quo "Black Panther" isn't just a big-budget action movie getting rave reviews; it's a full-fledged cultural phenomenon. Unlike other movies in the Marvel universe, it has an African superhero, a majority-black cast and an African-American director. Jeffrey Brown reports on the… Continue watching
Feb 16 13-year-old founder of #1000blackgirlbooks shares some of her favorite reads By Alison Thoet Marley Dias, a 13-year-old girl who has collected more than 11,000 books that showcase black female lead characters, can now add her own book to her list. Continue reading
Feb 15 The forgotten murders of the Osage people for the oil beneath their land By David Grann Author David Grann shares powerful images from one of the FBI’s first major homicide investigations, which he details in his book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI."… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch 7:03 How this artist fantasyland became a New Mexico moneymaker By PBS News Hour Can an immersive, mystery funhouse help revive a state like New Mexico? Economics correspondent Paul Solman visits Meow Wolf, a Santa Fe hippie artist collective turned business that convinced the "Game of Thrones" author to buy and lease them a… Continue watching
Feb 14 In defense of going over-the-top on Valentine’s Day By Elizabeth Flock Yes, you should get that giant teddy bear for your Valentine. Continue reading
Feb 13 For Valentine’s Day, put down your phone and face your feelings with these poems By Jennifer Hijazi We are more connected than ever, but poet Matthew Siegel finds it’s made communication and knowing our own feelings more difficult. Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch 7:15 How this former Border Patrol agent learned to see through the eyes of those trying to cross By PBS News Hour In "The Line Becomes a River," Francisco Cantú describes his experience as a Border Patrol agent in the deserts of Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. Written as a collection of dispatches, Cantú shows how the job became a difficult balancing… Continue watching
Feb 10 The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models By Clifford Johnson, The Conversation Seeing black lead characters who are accomplished scientists could be just the thing to inspire future generations to follow in their footsteps. Continue reading