Stax Music Academy is located on the site of the original Stax Records studio in historic Soulsville, which many legendary musicians -- including Aretha Franklin, Memphis Slim, and Booker T. Jones -- called home. It aims to nurture the next…
Dave Chappelle doesn't think audiences "want to pay to see somebody worried about the repercussions of what they say." A comedian who made a name for himself as one of the smartest and sharpest comedians around, Chappelle's latest comedy sets…
Comedian Dave Chappelle sat down recently for an interview with the PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about his career in comedy, his four Netflix specials and the boundaries of humor. He also sang this.
"I have published two novels in 22 years, and I have tried very hard to focus on things that matter most to me — craft and themes — rather than focusing on the things that seem pressing at the time,"…
Director Claude Lanzmann, whose 9½-hour masterpiece "Shoah" bore unflinching witness to the Holocaust, has died at 92.
Millions loved Fred Rogers and his neighborhood. Filmmaker Morgan Neville watched the iconic PBS show as a kid, and then rewatched it as an adult. He found something worth celebrating, a voice that he says he doesn't hear in our…
Five of the alleged offenses took place in London between 1996 and 2008, and the sixth in the western English city of Gloucester in 2013.
As a writer, editor and archivist, Kevin Young is a poet actively engaged with the world. In his new collection, "Brown," Young draws heavily on his boyhood in Topeka, Kansas, tying it in large and small ways to the wider…
“I don’t want to say it’s prophetic, but it is,” says Rose's teacher who found the poem. “If you knew this kid, he was a really nice kid. It’s such a loss."…
Our July pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This” is Min Jin Lee’s historical novel “Pachinko.”…
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