Apr 10 Watch 6:13 Big Ears Festival breaks barriers for open-minded music lovers By PBS News Hour Big Ears is a small, personal and eclectic music festival that aims to showcase how diverse genres can stretch and influence one another. This year, acts like the Kronos Quartet and Rhiannon Giddens and musicians from Wilco and The National… Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch 12:38 Brooks and Marcus on recording the police, Clinton's campaign launch By PBS News Hour New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including whether cops should wear body cameras in the wake of the video of a police shooting in South Carolina,… Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch 9:05 Is the supplement industry doing enough for consumer safety? By PBS News Hour Some popular weight loss and workout supplements contain a chemical called BMPEA that includes an ingredient nearly identical to amphetamine, according to a new study. Dr. Pieter Cohen of Harvard Medical School and Daniel Fabricant of the Natural Products Association… Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch Why the battle over guns is being fought at the state level By PBS News Hour At the NRA’s annual convention, potential Republican presidential candidates took to the stage to try and woo one of the party’s biggest constituencies: the gun lobby. To discuss the politics of guns and how the debate is playing out on… Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch 7:12 Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality By PBS News Hour Video that captures violent abuse by police or a government can send shockwaves through a society, but even if it goes viral, it may not stand up in a courtroom as evidence. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how one organization is… Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch 4:34 News Wrap: Leaders of U.S. and Cuba to meet for first time in decades By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro planned a historic encounter at the Summit of the Americas. Leaders of the two countries have not held any substantive, face-to-face discussions in decades. Also, federal authorities charged… Continue watching
Apr 10 Quiz: Famous quotes that are always misattributed By Nathalie Boyd In honor of Maya Angelou’s misquoted U.S. postage stamp, can you guess who didn’t say these oft-repeated quotes?… Continue reading
Apr 09 Watch 3:24 News Wrap: NAACP calls for federal investigation of police force after shooting in South Carolina By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 09 Black immigrant population in U.S. expected to triple by 2060, study finds By Laura Santhanam The number of black immigrants living in the United States has nearly quadrupled since 1980 and is expected to continue to grow, according to a new report released today from the Pew Research Center. Continue reading
Apr 09 Obama prepares for historic encounter with Castro By Josh Lederman, Associated Press PANAMA CITY — Turning the page on a half-century of enmity, President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will soon remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, boosting hopes for improved ties as he prepared for a… Continue reading