Sep 10 What happened to the remnants of the World Trade Center? By Michael D. Regan The artifacts come in various forms and sizes, collected from the wreckage of the World Trade Center buildings in the months following the attacks of Sept. 11. Continue reading
Sep 09 What it was like to watch the 9/11 attacks from your classroom window By Mary Jo Brooks On Sept. 11, 2001, Annie Thoms was 25 and just starting her second year teaching English at Stuyvesant High School, which is located just four blocks from Ground Zero. In the months that followed, she worked with her students to… Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch 5:13 Scotland’s national poet writes for those who’ve been asked ‘where are you from?’ By PBS News Hour Jackie Kay is Scotland's first black national poet. Adopted as a child, much of her poetry and prose speaks to her own experience of not feeling entirely welcome in her own country. “I wrote the poems that I wanted to… Continue watching
Sep 08 Watch 2:31 An illustrator explains the art of making pictures speak to children By PBS News Hour Christian Robinson says he had a hard time reading as a child, and so he didn’t have a great relationship with books. But he could always find solace in drawing. Today, he has turned his childhood hobby into a career… Continue watching
Sep 08 Real-life investigators object to portrayal in ‘Sully’ movie By Joan Lowy, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Losing thrust in both engines but still managing to land an airliner full of people in the Hudson River without the loss of a single life is plenty dramatic. But the drama in “Sully,” the movie about the… Continue reading
Sep 06 Mumbai meets Muddy Waters in a bluesy tribute to Bollywood By Kelly Whalen San Jose bluesman Aki Kumar has just released an album that combines old songs from Indian blockbuster films of his childhood with Chicago-style blues. Continue reading
Sep 05 A poet’s ode to the meaning of work By Mary Jo Brooks Philip Levine wrote 20 collections of verse, won a Pulitzer Prize and served as Poet Laureate of the United States. Yet he always considered his main mission was to document and honor the lives of working-class people. Continue reading
Sep 04 Rebecca Sugar, Cartoon Network’s first female creator, on writing LGBTQ stories for kids By Corinne Segal Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe, spoke with us about her new book, attitudes toward LGBTQ themes in children's media and her personal history with fairy tales. Continue reading
Sep 04 Watch 8:02 What caused Mexico’s drug war? By Ivette Feliciano Mexico's government has been waging a war against the country's drug cartels, whose territorial fights have left tens of thousands dead. "Kingdom of Shadows," a POV documentary that comes out this month, looks at the root causes of the violence… Continue watching
Sep 03 Light show turns primeval Kyoto forest, shrine into a kaleidoscope By Corinne Segal For a few brief days this summer, a sacred shrine and forest in Kyoto, Japan, became a technicolor dreamscape. Continue reading