Politics Jan 06 Acting U.S. Attorney General says U.S. Capitol insurrection an ‘intolerable attack’ Rosen said Wednesday that the Justice Department has been working with U.S. Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement agencies to secure the Capitol.
Arts Dec 30 20 mementos that carried you through 2020 In your own words, here are the stories behind 20 mementos that got you through 2020.
Arts Dec 23 The 101 songs you turned to in 2020 We asked our readers which songs helped them survive a strange and devastating year. Some tracks offered an escape. Some infused joy and despair.
Arts Dec 17 The songs we turned to in 2020 Fifteen artists and authors share the songs they played again and again.
Arts Dec 16 In a new Billie Holiday documentary, friends fill in the missing notes “Billie,” wants to go beyond the black-and-white — and incomplete — narrative of self-destructive jazz artists.
Arts Dec 14 The objects that carried us through 2020 The PBS NewsHour spoke with 11 artists and writers about which memento best expressed their experience, an artifact they’d tuck inside a time capsule.
Arts Dec 04 How Leah Chase became a ‘driving force’ of inspiration for chef Marcus Samuelsson In Marcus Samuelsson’s new cookbook, the chef pays tribute to Black women who have been the “backbone of American food.” Among the restaurateurs he names is Leah Chase, the Queen of Creole Cuisine.
Poetry Nov 27 A poem that extends a hand in our lonely times Throughout the year’s pain and distress caused by the pandemic, people have connected with the core theme of loneliness in Elizabeth Acevedo’s poem. Yet the final, gentle moment, set inside a nail salon, is one of reaching out, and having…
Poetry Nov 25 New anthology shares Black poetry’s history of ‘struggle and song’ In 250 years of Black poetry, the act of writing is itself a form of protest.
Arts Nov 19 Joy Harjo will serve a rare third term as U.S. poet laureate Harjo is the second poet laureate to serve this many terms in a row since the current duties of the position were established 77 years ago.