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Poetry helps youth at a juvenile detention center find peace

By PBS News Hour, Frank Carlson

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who…

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David Bowie made androgyny cool, and it was about time

By Corinne Segal

Androgyny doesn’t get a lot of style icons. David Bowie meant so much to so many, but for a number of people who have fought to subvert gender binaries and resist labels in a world that demands them, he made…

This Chicago program connects incarcerated youth to poetry

By artsdesk

PHOTOS: How David Bowie transformed into a cultural icon

By Abbey Oldham

From David Robert Jones to Davie Jones to David Bowie to Ziggy Stardust and back, transformative British rocker David Bowie was a counterculture icon with a following that transcended music, fashion and beyond.

Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts returns to the city that nearly broke him

By Frank Carlson

Betts' new book touches on the way he believes institutions -- schools, the police, the judicial system -- helped create a lost generation of young black men.

David Bowie, the man who fell to earth, dies at 69

By Joshua Barajas

David Bowie, legendary pop singer-songwriter, died at the age of 69, following a months-long battle with cancer, a rep confirmed Monday to The Hollywood Reporter.