Apr 13 Poet delivers a challenge: 'change is not made by cowards' By artsdesk Jonathan B. Tucker is the Youth Programs Coordinator for Split This Rock, a national nonprofit organized devoted provoking social justice through poetry. Listen to Tucker recite his poem "Live United" at the 2015 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Minneapolis. Continue reading
Apr 13 Watch 2:38 Jonathan B. Tucker recites his poem 'Live United' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 4:28 Photographer Gordon Parks' hunt for childhood friends reveals 1940s black life under segregation By PBS News Hour One of the most celebrated African-American artists of his time, Gordon Parks, is the subject of a photography exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that focuses on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s. WGBH's Jared… Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch 6:13 Big Ears Festival breaks barriers for open-minded music lovers By PBS News Hour Big Ears is a small, personal and eclectic music festival that aims to showcase how diverse genres can stretch and influence one another. This year, acts like the Kronos Quartet and Rhiannon Giddens and musicians from Wilco and The National… Continue watching
Apr 10 Quiz: Famous quotes that are always misattributed By Nathalie Boyd In honor of Maya Angelou’s misquoted U.S. postage stamp, can you guess who didn’t say these oft-repeated quotes?… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch 5:41 How can we return privacy control to social media users? By PBS News Hour What’s the cost of being constantly connected through social media? A new book, “Terms of Service” examines the erosion of privacy in the digital era. Author Jacob Silverman sits down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss what data is being tracked,… Continue watching
Apr 07 Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition nearly killed by the Khmer Rouge By Cynthia Stone, KQED Charya Burt trained as a classical Cambodian dancer, Now, she's passing on her art and drawing on a painful family history under the Khmer Rouge to push her dance in new directions. Continue reading
Apr 06 Poet Bill Berkson reads 'The One God' By artsdesk Listen to Bill Berkson read “The One God” from his new collection “Expect Delays.”… Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch 7:34 Elisabeth Moss embraces 'everywoman' characters from Mad Men's Peggy to Broadway's 'Heidi' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 03 Watch 1:43 Heavenly music turns Missouri nuns into chart-topping stars By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, an order of monastic nuns in rural Missouri topped Billboard’s classical music chart, their fourth consecutive No. 1 debut since 2012. The co-founder of the group offers a look at the lives… Continue watching