Jul 06 Watch New opera tells story of Auschwitz prisoner and her SS overseer By PBS News Hour "The Passenger," an opera opening at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York on Thursday, is based on a radio play and novel by a concentration camp survivor, Zofia Posmysz. The opera tells the story of two women during the… Continue watching
Jul 05 Public radio’s iconic ‘Prairie Home Companion’ celebrates 40 years By Megan Thompson A three-day anniversary event kicked off Friday at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where Garrison Keillor first broadcast "A Prairie Home Companion" on July 6, 1974. Back then, there were about 12 people in the audience. Today the show… Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Documenting gay rights activists at dawn of the movement By PBS News Hour KQED presents a report on photographer Anthony Friedkin and his efforts to document gay life more than 40 years ago. Friedkin's photographs were ahead of their time and most galleries wouldn’t show them -- until now. The culmination of Friedkin’s… Continue watching
Jul 03 Rebuilding Thomas Jefferson’s library By Anne Azzi Davenport Jeffrey Brown visits the Library of Congress to explore what rebuilding Thomas Jefferson's vast book collection can teach us about the very roots of the United States. Continue reading
Jul 03 Willie Nelson on his bloody first performance By Joshua Barajas In an interview on his tour bus in June, country music legend Willie Nelson described to PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown how a nosebleed didn't stop him from completing his first performance. Continue reading
Jul 02 Watch 7:25 What drives Willie Nelson to keep singing and traveling By Jeffrey Brown, Josh Barajas, Mike Fritz Country legend Willie Nelson, 81, is still on the road. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Nelson to talk about the burst of songwriting behind his new album, “Band of Brothers,” controlling his temper and how he stays fit on tour. Continue watching
Jul 02 Author Walter Dean Myers dies at 76 By News Desk Young adult and children's author Walter Dean Myers has died at age 76. Continue reading
Jul 02 Rappers respond: ‘This is how we express ourselves’ By Saskia de Melker A man shoots his foe in the head over and over again, leaving him to bleed out on the street. The man has no remorse. He even brags about it. Only this man isn’t real. He’s a… Continue reading
Jul 01 ‘I’m contemporary, I’m Native American and I’m an artist’ By Carrie Saldo and Lisa Olken, Rocky Mountain PBS Too many people think only of "beads and feathers" when they hear Native American art, says Merritt Johnson, a multi-disciplinary artist of Mohawk and Blackfoot descent. But her sculptures, paintings and performance art go well beyond that. Johnson was one… Continue reading