Dec 30 WATCH: Aretha Franklin brings Obama to tears with rousing performance of 'Natural Woman' By Joshua Barajas Among the performances Tuesday night at the 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., there was one that brought President Barack Obama to tears. Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch 6:25 Poet Robin Coste Lewis evokes the black female form across history By PBS News Hour "Voyage of the Sable Venus," the first collection from Robin Coste Lewis, is the winner of this year's National Book Award for poetry. Lewis discussed her debut, her readers and her influences with Jeffrey Brown at the Miami Book Festival. Continue watching
Dec 29 How living as an undocumented immigrant inspired musician Diana Gameros By Kelly Whalen Her music is rooted in her own coming-of-age story as an undocumented immigrant in America. Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch 3:47 Saying farewell to two arts greats: Ellsworth Kelly and Haskell Wexler By PBS News Hour Haskell Wexler, 93, was a giant in the world of cinematography in the 1960s and '70s. The Oscar-winner helped create new looks for films like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Ellsworth Kelly, 92,… Continue watching
Dec 28 12 stunning snowflake photos you won't believe were taken by an amateur photographer By Abbey Oldham No, these designs aren’t the latest in 3D printing technology; they are photographs of snowflakes taken by self-taught Moscow photographer, Alexey Kljatov. Continue reading
Dec 28 Hieu Minh Nguyen challenges white supremacy in poems about his family By Corinne Segal Nguyen, a Minneapolis-based poet who writes on race, queerness and history, dove into the past with "White Boy Time Machine: Instruction Manual."… Continue reading
Dec 28 Ellsworth Kelly, acclaimed abstract artist, dies at 92 By Corinne Segal Ellsworth Kelly, who helped pioneer postwar American abstract art, died Sunday at 92 in his home in Spencertown, New York. Continue reading
Dec 27 New 'Star Wars' is fastest movie to $1 billion By News Desk Moviegoers flocked to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" over the Christmas holiday weekend, pushing ticket sales past the $1 billion mark -- the fastest movie to do so in history. Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch 7:24 In Mongolia, a new generation's rock 'n' roll rooted in history By PBS News Hour In Mongolia, rock 'n' roll music symbolized the revolution of the early 1990s that broke the country free from decades of Soviet-style rule. Now, 25 years later, the first generation to grow up in the new society is making its… Continue watching
Dec 26 Watch 2:58 A tribute to one of America's first female photojournalists By PBS News Hour In 1965, photographer and writer Dickey Chapelle was killed in Vietnam, becoming the first female American journalist to be killed covering a war. In the new book, "Dickey Chapelle Under Fire," author John Garofolo talks about Chapelle's work, influence, and… Continue watching