Feb 24 Watch 1:52 Landscape-sized portraits of immigrants light up Boston By Mori Rothman Between dusk and dawn, larger-than-life portraits of immigrants from French cellist Yo-Yo Ma to farm workers are being projected onto 18 buildings, bridges and trees around Boston to highlight their unique contributions. NewsHour Weekend’s Mori Rothman spoke with photographer Erik… Continue watching
Feb 23 Watch 6:33 Pre-9/11 drama 'The Looming Tower' explores the failure of intelligence when division gets in the way By PBS News Hour, Frank Carlson A new drama takes viewers back to the events that led to the 9/11 attacks. Hulu’s "The Looming Tower," based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, retells the true story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden in the years… Continue watching
Feb 23 Jeff Daniels on how he landed 'Dumb and Dumber' By Frank Carlson When Jeff Daniels first auditioned for "Dumb and Dumber," everyone told him he couldn't do the film. Continue reading
Feb 22 Watch 7:41 Documentary tells tiny bank's David vs. Goliath story in 2008 financial crisis aftermath By PBS News Hour Only one bank was indicted in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, and it was a very small one. The Oscar-nominated documentary "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail" tells the story of its prosecution for mortgage fraud and its ultimate… Continue watching
Feb 22 David Grann reflects on the painstaking research that sparked his true-crime book By Alison Thoet In researching “Killers of the Flower Moon." author David Grann says he found the most telling information in boxes of unorganized archives. Continue reading
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