Feb 05 Watch 4:09 How the Atlantic’s first ‘underwater museum’ was created By Corinne Segal Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch 2:58 Why this writer chronicles uncompromising black artists By PBS News Hour She's written about Jimi Hendrix, Toni Morrison and Dave Chappelle, but essayist and critic Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah says she's more interested in the moments that these legends have been true to themselves. Ghansah offers her Brief but Spectacular take on… Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch 7:39 Amid death’s throes, young doctor examines life for meaning By PBS News Hour By age 36, neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi had earned five degrees across various fields and was at the end of a residency at Stanford. Then he was diagnosed with lung cancer, a disease that killed him 22 months later. Facing death,… Continue watching
Feb 04 Meet the women of ‘Hijabis of New York’ By Alexandra Sarabia Rana Abdelhamid, a Queens native and Harvard Kennedy School graduate student, started Hijabis of New York, a photo and interview project featuring Muslim women who wear a hijab. Continue reading
Feb 03 Using only materials from a refugee camp, artists recreate Syria’s lost treasures By Corinne Segal Palmyra, Syria, was invaded by the Islamic State last year. But the ancient city was still standing in the winter of 2014 when Mahmoud Hariri began recreating it in clay and wood. Continue reading
Feb 02 Watch 5:42 New York Times unveils lost snapshots of black history By PBS News Hour The New York Times has begun to unpack never-before-seen photographs that help fill in a portrait of African-American history. Why did these images of historic moments and well-known figures go unpublished for so long? Hari Sreenivasan learns more from Rachel… Continue watching
Feb 02 This youth classical music program turns no students away By Jenny Cunningham, KCTS A program in Yakima, Washington educates under-served students on classical music study and performance. Continue reading
Feb 01 ‘The Oregon Trail’ could have used a Native American viewpoint, co-creator says By Joshua Barajas One of the three co-creators of “The Oregon Trail,” took to Reddit on Monday to field questions on the video game, which introduced scores of school children to the trials and tribulations of pioneer life in America, including bouts with… Continue reading
Feb 01 How police harassment and hip-hop turned a Chicago teen into a poet By Corinne Segal Years after a troubling interaction with police, Nate Marshall would confront the experience in poetry. Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch 5:49 On a crowded toy shelf, making room for a new era of Barbie By PBS News Hour Barbie will now come in more shapes and sizes than its iconic, and unrealistic, original form. The decision to diversify was partly about softening sales, but also about the growing sense that the doll seemed out of touch. William Brangham… Continue watching