Aug 04 Watch 5:21 A Nobel laureate writes from her own experience living under Soviet rule By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch 6:52 Imagining the Underground Railroad as an actual train system Colson Whitehead’s new novel considers a startling premise: what if slaves had fled southern plantations via an actual subterranean train? Jeffrey Brown sits down with the author at BookExpo America in Chicago to discuss the challenge of blending fantasy with… Continue watching
Aug 02 Seattle artist takes viewers on a voyage to other worlds By Stephen Hegg, KCTS The boat is the emblem of Steve Jensen’s Norwegian soul. Boats carried his grandparents to America from Bergen, and boats are where he spent his young life as son and grandson of fishermen and boat builders. Boats are what he… Continue reading
Aug 01 A poet sees the light after the darkness of illness By Mary Jo Brooks Judith Barrington writes about memory, childhood, love and mortality. “When anything impacts me emotionally or spiritually or intellectually, my immediate response is to put it into words, to capture it — which of course no one can do. The written… Continue reading
Jul 30 Latino stars voice both outrage and caution in election year By Lynn Elber, Associated Press The reaction has been cautious from some, fiery from others as Latino stars search out their own path in an extraordinary political year. Continue reading
Jul 29 Watch 2:45 The reporter who's been "schlepping" around with Hillary Clinton for eight years By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 29 Artists use Twitter and translation to rally behind poet jailed in Saudi Arabia By Kassia Halcli Artists and activists this week showed their support for Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet who has been held in a Saudi prison for more than two years, by translating his writings and tweeting his picture with the hashtag #FreeAshraf. Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch 2:20 Collecting the pins, hats and bumper stickers of the 2016 campaign By PBS News Hour People collect everything and the memorabilia of the 2016 GOP and Democratic campaigns is no different. But one of the biggest, most ardent collectors may surprise you. It’s The Smithsonian Museum Of American History and curators have been on hand… Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch 3:11 The 2016 campaign through a photographer's lens By PBS News Hour The NewsHour marks the end of the presidential primary with a look back at some of the 2016 campaign’s iconic photographs and talks with the talented men and women who captured those images. Among their observations: Hillary Clinton is full… Continue watching
Jul 26 Giving artists the attention they didn't get during their lifetimes By Jackie Shafer, WOSU When under-recognized artists die, their art lives on here. Continue reading