Jun 11 A Bone to Pick With Genocide? Try a Million By Tom LeGro For 48 hours, the grass on the National Mall disappeared underneath a million white and grey "bones," a symbolic mass grave on the footsteps of the U.S. Capitol. The One Million Bones project is a public art installation created to… Continue reading
Jun 10 Hit the Road, Poet Laureate: Trethewey Partners With NewsHour for Second Term U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey joins our own Jeffrey Brown in a series of on-location broadcast reports for the NewsHour. Drawing on the poet's own life experiences, they'll explore, through the framework of poetry, issues that matter to Americans. Continue reading
Jun 10 Hit the Road, Poet Laureate: Trethewey Partners With NewsHour for Second Term By Tom LeGro The Library of Congress reappointed U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to a second term on Monday. Though she is not the first in her position to receive the honor of an extended post, the announcement does have special meaning for… Continue reading
Jun 10 Weekly Poem: Charles Hood Reads ‘Skype’ By Tom LeGro Charles Hood is the author of "South x South" (Ohio University Press), winner of the 2012 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His previous books include "Bombing Ploesti" and "Rio de Dios" (Red Hen Press). He has been the recipient of a… Continue reading
Jun 10 Bead for Life Participant: Don’t Keep Your Money, Invest It By David Pelcyger EmbedVideo(6568, 482, 304); A co-founder of Bead for Life and its participants talk about the business training program. In 2009, the PBS NewsHour profiled a group, Bead for Life, that trained Ugandan women to start businesses by rolling… Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Daughter’s Search for Her Dissident Father Inspires Fictional Retelling Daughter's Search for Her Dissident Father Inspires Fictional Retelling… Continue watching
Jun 07 One Photographer’s Experience Documenting Mentally Ill Inmates By Victoria Fleischer For her project "Trapped," photographer Jenn Ackerman spent months in the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit (CPTU) of the Kentucky State Reformatory to learn about the experiences of the mentally ill confined in the prison system. Continue reading
Jun 07 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro Visitors gather on artist Ryoji Ikeda's "Test Pattern," an installation featuring sound and light components, during the VIVID Sydney festival in Australia. Continue reading
Jun 06 Breadwinners At Work: Rice, Power, Evers & Obama Myrlie Evers-Williams, Samantha Power, Michelle Obama and Susan Rice -- unwavering women who all drew headlines this week. Four women who dominated headlines this week could not be more different from one another. But each one, we are told, possesses… Continue reading
Jun 05 Around the Nation By Tom LeGro Here are four arts and culture videos from public media partners around the nation. Continue reading