May 20 First Lady Michelle Obama promotes arts education program with White House talent show By Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Count on singing and dancing, maybe even a few magic tricks, when the curtain goes up Tuesday on the very first White House talent show. Continue reading
May 19 Watch Former Burmese movie star finds leading role as activist By PBS News Hour In the 1980s and '90s, Kyaw Thu was one of Myanmar's leading film stars, appearing in more than 200 movies. He was so popular that the military government cast him in several propaganda films. But when he turned down a… Continue watching
May 19 Weekly Poem: W. S. Di Piero uses language to create ’emotional immediacy’ By Victoria Fleischer W. S. Di Piero never wants to hear again that his poems are intense. “You get tired of hearing certain things if they get said so many times about the kind of work you do. I don’t write poems that… Continue reading
May 15 Vietnam War reenactors go full metal in the woods of Oregon By Victoria Fleischer Deep in the woods of western Oregon, a group of men trudges through mud and rain, wearing full army fatigues and using slang not overheard since the Nixon administration. The men are reenacting the Vietnam War and award-winning filmmakers Mike… Continue reading
May 15 Yo-Yo Ma plays to near capacity at Supreme Court By Associated Press Yo-Yo Ma played his 300-year-old cello for eight of the nine Supreme Court justices. Ma entertained Wednesday at the court's annual spring musical concert in an ornate conference room beneath portraits of Chief Justices Warren Burger and William Rehnquist. Continue reading
May 14 Lost and found identities in Dinaw Mengestu’s ‘All Our Names’ By Victoria Fleischer Life in post-colonial Africa and the civil rights era in the United States aren’t typically compared, but Dinaw Mengestu, author of the new novel “All Our Names,” saw those moments in history as an echo of each other. Continue reading
May 14 Watch ‘All Our Names’ tells story of war, love and identity across two continents By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 14 Watch Viet Cong soldiers are captured during a Vietnam War reenactment in ‘In Country’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 14 Watch Adapting to life after war in documentary ‘In Country’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 14 Watch American Vietnam Vet on re-enacting the war in ‘In Country’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching