Mar 30 Watch 5:20 Seeing Holocaust survivors' stories in the books they left behind By PBS News Hour In 1942, Jews from then-Czechoslovakia were taken to the Auschwitz death camp. A window into their lives before the deportation can be found in a new book, "Last Folio," and a traveling exhibition at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in… Continue watching
Mar 29 Watch 53:56 PBS NewsHour full episode March 29, 2016 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, an endorsement and a criminal charge dominate the campaign trail as attention turns to the Wisconsin primary. Also: Unions make an unlikely win at the Supreme Court, the FBI cracks a locked iPhone, Iraqi Christians take… Continue watching
Mar 29 How I use comic books as a learning tool in my social studies classroom By Tim Smyth Comic books have had a long history of tackling social issues. Teacher Tim Smyth says comic books and graphic novels are powerful vehicles to engage students in both history and current events. Continue reading
Mar 29 These young poets show there's more to Flint than a water crisis By Corinne Segal These young Flint poets say the water crisis is overshadowing the innovative artists and activists that live and work there every day. Continue reading
Mar 29 Melvin Edwards' steel sculptures reveal a history of racial violence By WOSU Melvin Edwards' welded steel sculptures address social issues and civil rights in abstract pieces that call on the viewer to interrogate the history of race in the U.S. Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch 4:40 Remembering author Jim Harrison in his own words By PBS News Hour Jim Harrison, a prolific and influential writer of fiction and poetry, was known for his preoccupation with rural American life and his eclectic professional pursuits: he’d been everything from a Hollywood screenwriter to a food writer for Esquire Magazine. Harrison… Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch 7:20 How Balkan war criminals were hunted down and brought to justice By PBS News Hour Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is the latest perpetrator to be convicted of war crimes committed during the 1990s Balkan wars. In "The Butcher's Trail," author Julian Borger examines how tough it was to hunt down those responsible for… Continue watching
Mar 28 Poet Fatemeh Shams takes on politics in post-revolution Iran By Corinne Segal Fatemeh Shams grew up in Mashhad in northeast Iran, in a conservative environment where she said she found it challenging to express her doubts about religion and explore her identity as a woman. Continue reading
Mar 25 Watch 3:27 Remembering the lives of Garry Shandling and Phife Dawg By PBS News Hour Two groundbreaking artists died this week. Comedian Garry Shandling, star of the Emmy-winning “The Larry Sanders Show,” and rapper Malik Taylor, who co-founded the Grammy-nominated group A Tribe Called Quest under the stage name Phife Dawg, died within two days… Continue watching
Mar 25 Argentine filmmaker remembers his country's disappeared By Meredith Lee As President Barack Obama concluded his Latin America trip in Argentina this week, he sought to mend one of the U.S.’s most historically troubled relationships in the region involving the rise of a brutal military regime. Continue reading