Jul 05 Watch 2:51 How a Muslim-American glamour girl became the new face of CoverGirl By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 05 Watch 6:34 Blues greats Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ team up to make some joyful noise By PBS News Hour It's called the blues, but Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' are feeling nothing but joy. The two musicians have been writing and performing music a long time, but never together -- until now. Jeffrey Brown sits down with the two… Continue watching
Jul 05 Watch Taj Mahal and Keb Mo sing the “Diving Duck Blues” By Mary Jo Brooks Taj Mahal and Keb Mo are both living legends in the blues music scene. But they haven't released an album together -- until now. Continue reading
Jul 04 Twitter chat: The electric guitar is in decline. Why? By Lora Strum Washington Post arts reporter Geoff Edgers joins NewsHour for a Twitter chat at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 6. Continue reading
Jul 03 Watch 6:15 Colm Toibin sees the ‘origin of all civil wars’ in this Greek tragedy By PBS News Hour In the new novel "House of Names," one of today's leading contemporary writers looks back to the Trojan War and Greek mythology for inspiration. Colm Toibin joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss why he wanted to write a novel about a… Continue watching
Jul 03 This poem grapples with America’s complicated identity By Elizabeth Flock "I think of the U.S. as an adolescent country. It's not the old, wise European country, or very young either, it's somewhere in the middle," poet Dorianne Laux says. Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch 4:39 Graphic novel shows life in Nevada’s ‘doom towns’ during atomic testing By PBS News Hour Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. tested nearly a thousand atomic weapons in the Nevada desert 125 miles north of Las Vegas. The mushroom clouds from those tests were visible from the Vegas strip and became an unlikely tourist attraction. Continue watching
Jun 30 This Independence Day, 5 books that explain America’s complex history By Elizabeth Flock Historian Sean Wilentz has examined the history of America through the lens of our presidents, our party politics, the working class — and even our music. This Independence Day, we asked Wilentz, a professor of American history at… Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 2:51 How journalist Ann Friedman learned to sound more like herself By PBS News Hour Women are routinely asked and expected to modify how they speak in order to not come across as too direct or harsh, says journalist Ann Friedman. But in pursuing her life’s work, she’s found greater confidence in her professional voice,… Continue watching
Jun 29 Arundhati Roy: ‘In the air in India now is pure terror’ By Elizabeth Flock As Hindu nationalism grows in India, and "beef lynchings" becoming more commonplace, Arundhati Roy's new novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" explores what it means to live in a climate of fear. Continue reading