Sep 30 Watch Understanding the rise of the Islamic State By PBS News Hour As a young man, Lawrence Wright first visited the Middle East when he taught English in Cairo. He has spent much of his life since reporting on the region -- documenting culture by sharing the stories of individuals. His new… Continue watching
Sep 30 This Chinese American cartoonist forces us to face racist stereotypes By Joshua Barajas The first comic that cartoonist Gene Luen Yang ever bought was a two-in-one issue that featured a man made out of rocks and an intergalactic cyborg. He loved comics, especially the kind that featured space aliens. So he started making… Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch 2:45 Photographer documents the beauty of difference across the LGBT spectrum By PBS News Hour It’s hard to look someone in the eye and deny their humanity, says iO Tillett Wright. Now Wright has spent the past six years photographing people who identify across the LGBT spectrum. Wright offers a Brief but Spectacular take on… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 6:19 This DJ mixes the world's local music to create a global sound By PBS News Hour Jace Clayton, aka DJ/rupture, spends his time traveling, absorbing music as well as creating it. To create his art, he mixes various melodies and rhythms from all over the world in order to create new, complex sounds. Jeffrey Brown speaks… Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch 4:03 Boston brings the music back by boosting arts education By PBS News Hour At a time when schools across the country are cutting arts education, this city is aiming to make it universal. Myran Parker-Brass, a classically trained mezzo-soprano who sang for the Boston Symphony, is working to provide weekly arts education to… Continue watching
Sep 26 Watch 6:17 The musical rumble that makes listeners love 'West Side Story' By PBS News Hour On this day nearly six decades ago, “West Side Story” premiered on Broadway. And the music of the Sharks and the Jets, and star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria is as vibrant as it was in 1957. Jeffrey Brown sits down… Continue watching
Sep 26 Seeing a culture of fear, poet explores the immigrant dream By Mary Jo Brooks Poet Tishani Doshi has long reflected on the idea of immigration and creating a new home in new land. But she has become alarmed about the “culture of fear” that has developed toward immigrants in the United Sates and Britain. Continue reading
Sep 24 Watch Architect on African American History Museum's unique exterior By PBS News Hour Architect Philip Freelon talks about how light affects the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened on Saturday on the National Mall. While other structures on the Mall are made of marble, granite or concrete, the museum’s… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch: Jeffrey Brown interviews authors at the National Book Festival By artsdesk Watch interviews with Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates and more than a dozen other authors at the National Book Festival. Continue reading
Sep 24 New Smithsonian museum chronicling black history opens By Jesse J. Holland and Darlene Superville, Associated Press Decades of planning culminate today with the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Continue reading