Feb 27 Around the Nation By Molly Finnegan Here are three arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation. Continue reading
Feb 27 Remembering Master Pianist, Maestro Van Cliburn By News Desk // This video first aired on PBS NewsHour April 11, 2008. Read the full transcript. Van Cliburn, the classical pianist who was vaulted on the world stage when, at the age of 23, he won the first International Tchaikovsky… Continue reading
Feb 27 The Daily Frame By Molly Finnegan Visitors pass by "Sphere rouge," a work by Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, 85, a pioneer of Op Art, at the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris. Continue reading
Feb 27 Donnel Baird Uses Community Power to Generate Green Energy Projects EmbedVideo(5818, 482, 304); The rugged setting of Donnel Baird's youth helped shape his social entrepreneur goals later in life. Baird grew up in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his parents and sister in the 1980s. Continue reading
Feb 26 Watch Gloria Steinem: Women Can’t ‘Have It All’ Until There’s Equality Gloria Steinem: Women Can't 'Have It All' Until There's Equality… Continue watching
Feb 26 Our Past Still Speaks: Re-examining the Voting Rights Act By Ray Suarez President Lyndon Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965, the year it was signed into law. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images Let me begin this discussion of the landmark Voting Rights… Continue reading
Feb 26 The Tuesday Cutline… a Winner! By Colleen Shalby Did you do a double take at last week's bus-riding panda photo? Don't even pretend that you didn't have to verify that you were actually looking at person wearing a costume… Continue reading
Feb 26 My Friend Who Made History By Judy Woodruff Charlayne Hunter-Gault broke barriers when she arrived to the University of Georgia in 1961. Her strength and fortitude allowed her to thrive on a racially hostile campus would serve her in her future career as an award-winning journalist. Continue reading
Feb 26 Holmes Dixon Crossed the Altar, Busted Barriers Jane Holmes Dixon was the second woman bishop in the Episcopal Church and served as the Bishop of Washington pro tempore from 2001-2002. In honor of "Makers: Women Who Make America," Ray Suarez remembers a woman who inspired his family. Continue reading
Feb 26 How To Lift Half the World Perhaps new forms of advocacy and different types of activists can help us re-frame thinking about inequality from a problem for women to a problem for humans. Continue reading