Jun 24 Watch 50 years later, ‘Freedom Summer’ leaders recall pivotal fight against discrimination By PBS News Hour A new documentary “Freedom Summer” looks back to the deeply segregated Mississippi of 1964, and the young people who came from around the country to lend a hand in the struggle against racism. For a look back at the moment,… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch News Wrap: Homeland Security sends agents to address child migrant crisis By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, 115 Homeland Security agents were deployed to the Rio Grande Valley to handle a surge of thousands of undocumented children at the U.S. border. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said another 150 agents may… Continue watching
Jun 24 Explorers close in on 17th-century Great Lakes shipwreck By Lorna Baldwin Shipwreck hunter Steve Libert thinks he has found the remains of the Griffin… Continue reading
Jun 24 What employers really want: Skills get you hired; behavior gets you fired By Gerald Chertavian How does Year Up, a career development program for urban young adults, place students without college degrees in stable jobs? Paul Solman speaks with Year Up founder and CEO Gerald Chertavian about teaching the cognitive abilities that land their students… Continue reading
Jun 24 Amazon drone plan runs into FAA challenge By Sam Lane The Federal Aviation Administration has, at least for now, squashed plans by online shopping giant Amazon to deliver packages via drone. Continue reading
Jun 24 Remembering ‘Freedom Summer,’ the civil rights effort that changed America 50 years ago By Lyndsay Knecht, KERA Fifty years ago this summer, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. But that didn’t come without a price. It was the era of the Freedom Summer, a brave and bloody campaign to get blacks registered… Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch ‘Ivory Tower’ explores why American higher education is so pricey By PBS News Hour The rise in U.S. college tuition is unsustainable. That’s the argument of a new television documentary, “Ivory Tower,” which tackles growing worries and critique over college costs and student debt. Jeffrey Brown talks to filmmaker Andrew Rossi about the origins… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Crackdown on Al Jazeera journalists helps government control Egypt’s narrative By Ariel Min The controversial convictions of three Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt are among the most high-profile cases in a general crackdown on dissent. Jeffrey Brown talks to Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Michael Hanna of the… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Year Up raises employment odds for young adults by teaching job-ready skills By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Can U.S. break away from World Cup ‘group of death’? By PBS News Hour U.S. soccer fans watched Portugal extinguish an American victory with less than a minute left. The match ended in a tie of 2-2, but a win by the U.S. would have carried the team to the next round of the… Continue watching