• 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

    ... over political differences. Mark Shields: While, to the world, we may be sophisticated grownups who know what wine to order with swordfish, our families (especially brothers and sisters and parents and cousins) remember us today as yesterday—when we were scared of the dark, before we could ride a bike ...

  • 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 her new collection, “On the Desire to Levitate.” The Fields A boy is raised up in the fields. He knows his hard feet in the husks. He knows his mother, her bottles and naps. Knows his brother's war dreams ...

  • DSCC stops running TV ads in Kentucky Senate race

    DSCC stops running TV ads in Kentucky Senate race

    Oct 14, 2014 08:55 PM EDT

    ... million immigrants living in the country illegally. Grimes was heavily recruited by Democrats to challenge McConnell, but her support eroded in recent polls under the weight of attacks by McConnell and his allies. While McConnell has been plagued by low approval ratings, he has sought to turn the election into ...

  • Protesters converge on Wall Street to call attention to climate change

    Protesters converge on Wall Street to call attention to climate change

    Sep 23, 2014 01:03 AM EDT

    ... and its human and natural resources. So we have to stop them. GWEN IFILL: A short distance away, Secretary of State John Kerry lent his weight to the cause, opening what organizers are calling climate week. He underlined findings that 2013 saw the largest single-year increase in carbon pollution ...

  • How scandals could change the business of football

    How scandals could change the business of football

    Sep 18, 2014 12:32 AM EDT

    Some sponsors of the NFL have started to complain publicly about the league's handling of the cases involving players and domestic abuse of spouses and children. Despite extra scrutiny, ratings and fan attendance have held. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Andrew Zimbalist of Smith College and Gregg Easterbrook, author of “The King of Sports: Football's Impact...

  • The issue that could roil the midterms

    The issue that could roil the midterms

    Aug 28, 2014 01:03 PM EDT

    Today in the Morning Line: Executive action on immigration could shake up midterms Both parties eyeing Obama’s decision for impact Rand Paul takes aim at Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy The GOP’s trouble winning over women voters Both sides on edge over Obama immigration action: Could President Barack Obama’s impending decision on executive steps to address...