Jun 25 Watch Actress and Singer Audra McDonald Feels at Home in Whirlwind of New Challenges Actress and Singer Audra McDonald Feels at Home in Whirlwind of New Challenges… Continue watching
Jun 25 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Audra McDonald By Arts Desk More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with actress and singer Audra McDonald. Continue reading
Jun 25 Profile of Phish’s Trey Anastasio to Air July 2; Share Your Show Photos Now By Mike Melia Editor's note: This post will be updated with new videos leading up to the July 2 Trey Anastasio interview on the PBS NewsHour. // All right Phish fans, get ready: the PBS NewsHour's profile of Trey Anastasio will air… Continue reading
Jun 24 Weekly Poem: ‘I Go Back to May 1937’ By Molly Finnegan Actor John Lithgow reads the poem "I Go Back to May 1937," by Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds. Continue reading
Jun 24 Supreme Court Decisions: Affirmative Action Reaction Live By Meena Ganesan The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court for another look. The court's 7-1 decision Monday leaves unsettled many of the basic questions about the continued use of race as a… Continue reading
Jun 21 Conversation: Novelist Colum McCann, Author of ‘TransAtlantic’ By Tom LeGro Frederick Douglass traveling through Ireland in 1845 to stir up support for his abolitionist cause. The first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919. Sen. George Mitchell in 1998 trying to forge a peace treaty in Northern Ireland. Those actual… Continue reading
Jun 19 Clarinet Player Seeks Cicadas for Jam Session EmbedVideo(6721, 482, 304); Musician David Rothenberg plays his clarinet with the buzz of cicadas as his accompaniment. In early June, David Rothenberg journeyed to the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New York's Hudson Valley in search of fellow… Continue reading
Jun 18 Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict For centuries, Pashtun women have traded stories, feelings and life wisdom in the form of two-line oral poems called landays. Eliza Griswold, a journalist and poet herself, traveled to Afghanistan to learn more about daily life there through the modern… Continue reading
Jun 18 Watch Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict… Continue watching
Jun 18 Short, Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afghan Life By Meredith P. Garretson Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, has been… Continue reading