May 04 Watch 6:17 Revisiting the Great Migration through paintings and poetry By PBS News Hour The Great Migration of 6 million African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North was a shift that reshaped America forever. Artist Jacob Lawrence captured that story in an epic work of art known as the Migration Series. Now… Continue watching
May 04 Watch 7:26 How America's first ladies balanced public and private life By PBS News Hour A new book takes an up-close look at the women who have called the White House home. "First Ladies: Presidential Historians and the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women" is a culmination of a year-long series by C-SPAN. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
May 04 Watch 3:27 Baltimore residents reflect on riots and share relief for curfew's end By PBS News Hour During Baltimore’s six-day curfew after the recent riots, some residents gave up wages and access to other necessities in order to be home by 10 p.m. Residents share their reactions to the protests and riots and the end of the… Continue watching
May 04 Watch 7:29 Why the place you grow up can limit earning power for life By PBS News Hour Poor children in Baltimore face worse economic odds than low-income kids elsewhere. That’s according to a new analysis by Harvard’s Equality of Opportunity Project, which found that where a child is born has a huge effect on their future financial… Continue watching
May 04 Watch 9:01 Will 2016 be the year of the political outsider? By PBS News Hour The field of Republican contenders for 2016 has grown by two: retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard CEO, have both announced their candidacies. Gwen Ifill talks to Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report and Tamara… Continue watching
May 04 Watch News Wrap: Bill Clinton defends foreign donations to Clinton Foundation By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 04 Watch FBI investigates Muhammad cartoon contest attackers By PBS News Hour The FBI searched for terror ties to an attack in Texas by two gunmen. Both attackers were killed after they opened fire outside a contest of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Federal agents searched an apartment that belonged to a… Continue watching
May 04 Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, emails this month By Erica Werner, Associated Press Hillary Rodham Clinton is willing to testify on Capitol Hill later this month about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and about her email practices, her attorney told lawmakers in a letter Monday. Continue reading
May 04 Former CIA leader defends drone strikes, torture By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ordered a barrage of CIA drone strikes in Yemen in 2013 that killed the al-Qaida operatives behind the most serious plotting against American interests in years, a former CIA leader says in a new memoir… Continue reading
May 04 Supreme Court rejects inmate's appeal for sex-change surgery By Mark Pratt, Associated Press BOSTON — A nearly two-decade legal fight by a convicted murderer in Massachusetts to get taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery ended in failure Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her final appeal. Continue reading