• Seeking solace in poetry after a mass shooting

    Seeking solace in poetry after a mass shooting

    Jun 13, 2016 04:20 PM EDT

    ... call across the wounded Charleston sky, we close our eyes and listen to the same stillness ringing in our hearts, holding onto one another like brothers, like sisters because we know wherever there is love, there is God. https://youtu.be/QnfrzvWsJD4 Black Cloth By Marcus Amaker Racism, let us ...

  • Loretta Lynn asks, 'Who's gonna miss me when I'm gone?'

    Loretta Lynn asks, 'Who's gonna miss me when I'm gone?'

    Mar 05, 2016 03:01 PM EDT

    ... get together and play. A shrinking coal town, Van Lear is also known as the birthplace of Lynn, her sisters Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue Wright, who are also professional country music singers, and her brother Jay Lee, who played lead guitar for Lynn’s band. Webb lives several hundred ...

  • New House GOP chairman had early democratic roots

    New House GOP chairman had early democratic roots

    Nov 08, 2015 09:39 PM EDT

    ... spent one night sweating off pounds in the gym when a teammate was hurt and Brady was too heavy to compete in his 132-pound weight class. He lost the necessary weight - Brady says 12 pounds - and wrestled, losing his match but preventing his team from forfeiting. "They were tough ...

  • The new tool colleges are using in admissions decisions: big data

    The new tool colleges are using in admissions decisions: big data

    Aug 21, 2015 06:24 PM EDT

    ... how many IC PEERS friends they made. The idea is to learn how interested a candidate is in the college, Ithaca officials said. The Big Brother approach to using data in this way is not without its critics. “I really didn’t think about how the school might use that ...

  • How a city reckons with its 'Straight Outta Compton' roots

    How a city reckons with its 'Straight Outta Compton' roots

    Aug 14, 2015 09:05 PM EDT

    ... rapper,” Wright Jr. said. “I miss him. I feel like the world’s forgotten about him; he’s not getting his due justice.” His younger brother Derrick Wright, also known as the rapper “Baby Eazy-E,” is at his side as he remembers his father. “He was a genius. He ...

  • Obama returns to Kenya, reunites with father's family

    Obama returns to Kenya, reunites with father's family

    Jul 24, 2015 07:31 PM EDT

    ... in 1982, at age 46. "I didn't have a dad in the house," Obama said last year during a White House event for My Brother's Keeper, his initiative for young men. "I was angry about it, even though I didn't necessarily realize it at the time." Obama ...

  • Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition nearly killed by the Khmer Rouge

    Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition nearly killed by the Khmer Rouge

    Apr 07, 2015 08:55 PM EDT

    ... that I had not only been naive but culturally insensitive was the sight of Burt and her sister walking toward the studio, laboring under the weight of numerous stuffed satchels and rolling a suitcase. When the bags were opened, they overflowed with embroidered silk, massive gold jewelry and a couple ...

  • Terrorist training of Paris attacker puts spotlight on Yemen

    Terrorist training of Paris attacker puts spotlight on Yemen

    Jan 13, 2015 01:19 AM EDT

    ... GWEN IFILL: The discovery that one of the brothers involved in the Paris attacks received al-Qaida training in Yemen put that terrorist group and Yemen back in the spotlight. Joining me for more on the threats from both, and the U.S. strategy to try to contain them ...

  • 12 Days of NewsHour: Download the 2014 Shields and Brooks Guide to Holiday Civility

    12 Days of NewsHour: Download the 2014 Shields and Brooks Guide to Holiday Civility

    Dec 18, 2014 09:40 PM EDT

    Recognizing that Thanksgiving has passed, and that many of the social and political issues facing the nation have changed, we are offering an updated version of "The Mark Shields and David Brooks’ Guide to Holiday Civility."

  • Weekly Poem: Alison Powell reads 'The Fields'

    Weekly Poem: Alison Powell reads 'The Fields'

    Dec 15, 2014 09:40 PM EDT

    Listen to Alison Powell read her poem “The Fields” from “On the Desire to Levitate," Powell's debut collection of poetry.