May 10 WATCH: After proposed travel ban, this Sudanese singer found her voice again By Elie Khadra, KQED Arts Salma Hagag, 51, learned to sing in Sudan as a child, before she moved to Egypt and, eventually, the United States. But nobody in her adopted country had heard her voice — until she performed at a sold-out concert in… Continue reading
May 08 From Trayvon Martin to Sandra Bland, these poems use court documents to honor black lives cut short By Elizabeth Flock The Black Lives Matter movement asks us to say the names of the black men and women who have died in encounters with police. Poet and educator Simone John wants us to also understand their stories, through her debut collection… Continue reading
May 06 In a changing corner of Brooklyn, public art teaches kids ABCs By Corinne Segal Local artists in a Brooklyn neighborhood are contributing to a public art project aimed at helping kids learn the alphabet. Continue reading
May 05 Watch In ‘Behold the Dreamers,’ the American dream and immigrant reality collide By PBS News Hour Imbolo Mbue, author of "Behold the Dreamers" and winner of the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, sits down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss her first novel, the story of immigrants coming to the U.S. from Cameroon to confront the reality… Continue watching
May 05 WATCH: How to make a Kentucky Derby-worthy mint julep By Meredith P. Garretson Make the mint perfect julep with this recipe from Parker Girard, the beverage director at Barrel, a bourbon bar in Washington, D.C. Continue reading
May 05 Disco deserves more respect. These 5 songs prove why By Joshua Barajas As the Library of Congress celebrates disco for the first time, we asked music historian Bill Brewster to spotlight five revolutionary disco tracks. Continue reading
May 04 Watch Why summer is the season of movie sequels, reboots and spin-offs By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 04 Watch TV pioneer Norman Lear finds joy in creative stress By PBS News Hour Legendary writer and producer Norman Lear was responsible for some of America’s most popular and groundbreaking sitcoms, like “All in the Family,” “Maude” and “The Jeffersons.” Lear, 94, gives his Brief but Spectacular take on what it means to live… Continue watching
May 03 South Sudan’s violence hasn’t stopped the spirit of dance hall music By Elizabeth Flock Despite civil war, many young people seek to keep living life as usual, a major part of which is the infectious, can't-stop-dancing, culture of dance hall music. Continue reading
May 02 Returning home, these West Virginians are rewriting the poetry of Appalachia By Elizabeth Flock The poetry community is growing in West Virginia. Many are poets who left and have come back home. Continue reading