May 19 Watch 2:57 Pell tells his story through trial, some error — and lots of ‘experimental soul’ By PBS NewsHour How 'experimental soul' has become artist's guiding force… Continue watching
May 18 Watch 7:13 Step aside Seinfeld — meet Mark Twain, the stand-up comic By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 17 Watch 1:03 Divers find ancient Roman shipwreck — and its treasure — off Israel’s coast By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 17 Empowering young girls of color with art that looks like them By Jackie Shafer, WOSU When she couldn't find paper dolls that looked like her, she made her own. Today, Katurah Ariel creates art to inspire and empower girls and women of color. Continue reading
May 16 ‘Hamilton’ creator says ‘immigrants get the job done’ in UPenn graduation speech By Associated Press Lin-Manuel Miranda says even as politics traffics in "anti-immigrant rhetoric," there is a musical "reminding us that a broke orphan immigrant from the West Indies built our financial system."… Continue reading
May 16 The poetry of simmering Chicago summers By Mary Jo Brooks Parneshia Jones is a child of the North and grandchild of the South, and her poetry reflects that duality. The smells, tastes and sounds of Mississippi and Louisiana mingle with the rhythms and realities of the northern industrial city she… Continue reading
May 14 This stargazing photographer wants to inspire an end to light pollution By Corinne Segal Most people alive today have never seen the Milky Way. That's a problem that Matt Dieterich, a night sky photographer, has spent his life working to fix. Continue reading
May 12 Watch 6:55 A dad learns to ‘Love That Boy’ when son diagnosed with Asperger’s By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 12 Watch 2:54 Concerts for Cats? Dances for dogs? Yes, it’s come to this By PBS News Hour Humans tend to view animals as a source of entertainment, but anthropologist Laurel Braitman is more concerned with entertaining them. That’s why she started putting on music concerts for everything from wolves to miniature donkeys. The only rules: no people,… Continue watching
May 11 Watch 6:49 A modern retelling of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ By PBS News Hour Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is one of the most celebrated novels in the English language, but time may have diluted its impact for modern audiences. Author Curtis Sittenfeld set out to update the classic work to 21st century Cincinnati… Continue watching