Mar 08 Watch 5:44 How a cartoonist is highlighting the lives of San Diego's homeless residents By PBS News Hour Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist Steve Breen is using his drawings to highlight the growing problem of homelessness and the housing crisis in Southern California. Jeffrey Brown gets a first-hand look at the cartoonist and newspaper’s efforts to humanize and complicate… Continue watching
Mar 08 Watch 3:20 This poet wants brown girls to know they're worthy of being the hero and the author By PBS News Hour For girls who didn't grow up seeing themselves as the main characters of books, award-winning poet Elizabeth Acevedo wants them to know that their stories are just as important as any other. Acevedo shares her Brief but Spectacular take on… Continue watching
Mar 06 This poet wants you to rethink what it means to be vulnerable By Jennifer Hijazi Poet Analicia Sotelo penned her latest collection to upend tropes of the helpless damsel, inspired by an Italian painter's dream-like depiction of womanly strength in the throes of vulnerability. Continue reading
Mar 06 To be a better writer, read your words aloud, says Mohsin Hamid By Jennifer Hijazi "Exit West" author Mohsin Hamid shares his daily writing routine, favorite books and the best bit of writer's advice he's ever received. Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch 6:28 In the #TimesUp era, these two words could help Hollywood add diversity to decision-making By PBS News Hour At Sunday’s Academy Awards, Best Actress-winner Frances McDormand ended her acceptance speech with two words: inclusion rider. Jeffrey Brown talks with the the woman credited with inventing the idea, Stacy Smith, founder of USC's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, to discuss what… Continue watching
Mar 05 Discussion questions for 'Exit West' By Elizabeth Flock Mohsin Hamid’s novel “Exit West,” which follows two lovers on the move from a country on the brink of civil war, is our March pick for the new PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”… Continue reading
Mar 05 Man arrested after stealing Frances McDormand's Oscar trophy By Associated Press Los Angeles police say a man has been arrested for stealing Frances McDormand's Oscars trophy after the Academy Awards. Continue reading
Mar 05 At Oscars 2018, #MeToo dominates conversation -- and 'The Shape of Water' wins best picture By Alison Thoet 'The Shape of Water' won best picture, and Frances McDormand won best actress in a supporting role. See the full list here. Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch 6:56 Documentary celebrates life and work of conflict photographer Chris Hondros By Christopher Booker, Melanie Saltzman His iconic image of a government commander jumping with joy on a bridge during the Liberian civil war in 2003 established Chris Hondros as one of the foremost conflict photographers in the world. Seven years after he was killed on… Continue watching
Mar 04 'The Insult,' Lebanon's first Oscar-nominated film, examines a country's deepest wounds By Jennifer Hijazi In “The Insult,” a heated exchange between two men unfurls into a courtroom drama that catapults into the Lebanese national spotlight. Continue reading