• What challenges remain for Selma 50 years since march?

    What challenges remain for Selma 50 years since march?

    Mar 10, 2015 12:01 AM EST

    ... civil rights movement that came to define Selma. Fifty years after protesters crossing the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge here changed the civil rights tide for a nation, Selma finds itself at a crossroads again, this time between success and stagnation. Georgia Congressman John Lewis, who, as a young organizer, had ...

  • Obama challenges Arab and Muslim states to fight violent extremism in U.N. address - Part 1

    Obama challenges Arab and Muslim states to fight violent extremism in U.N. address - Part 1

    Sep 24, 2014 11:13 PM EST

    ... correspondent Margaret Warner is in New York for the U.N. gathering. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States: We come together at a crossroads between war and peace, between disorder and integration, between fear and hope. MARGARET WARNER: That stark statement headlined the president's address on a ...

  • Explore the future of higher education with Hari Sreenivasan

    Explore the future of higher education with Hari Sreenivasan

    Aug 22, 2014 10:20 PM EST

    ... will share five of stories he found as part of a week-long look at how America is rethinking the college experience. The series comes at a time when many believe higher education is at a crossroads. During the week of Aug. 25, PBS NewsHour will explore that crossroads with ...

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    Embracing Difference: Telling Other People's Stories Well

    Apr 05, 2013 11:43 AM EST

    ... because someone else had opened them. I just had to walk through. This is what I have now found on the other side. Journalism is at a crossroads. We have stories to tell, but many of our audiences have stopped listening to us because they can tell we're not ...

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    As Farmers Age, Japan Rethinks Relationship With Food, Fields

    Jun 12, 2012 10:29 PM EST

    ... is done by hand on small plots of land that have been cultivated by the same families, sometimes for centuries.  But,today, Japanese agriculture is at a crossroads.  Japan's farmers, like 71-year-old Yurinori Mori and his wife, Fukiko, are getting old.  And their children and grandchildren are ...

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    In Ohio, How 2 Counties' Economic Paths Diverged Over 30 Years

    Mar 15, 2011 11:53 PM EST

    ... I really am. (LAUGHTER) PAUL SOLMAN: Neff was born in the days depicted in this mural in Bucyrus, Crawford's county seat, when it was at a crossroads between an agricultural past and industrial future. Just a few miles south sits Delaware County. In 1980, incomes there were roughly the ...

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    Shooting of Rep. Giffords Pauses Partisan Rhetoric in Washington

    Jan 10, 2011 01:30 PM EST

    ... all wondering what the president will say next. In Monday's edition of POLITICO, Glenn Thrush and Carol E. Lee write that the shooting presents "a critical opportunity to a president at a crossroads, a chance for Obama to elevate the debased tenor of politics, much as President Bill Clinton ...

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    Papal Visit Prompts Reflection on U.S. Catholic Identity

    Apr 15, 2008 10:25 PM EST

    ... success of my visit, that there may be a time of spiritual renewal for all Americans.JEFFREY BROWN: The pope will find an American church at a crossroads. There are about 65 million Catholics in the U.S. today, about one-quarter of the nation's population.AMERICAN CATHOLIC: At ...

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    FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps

    Jun 02, 2003 07:52 PM EST

    The following is the entire prepared statement from FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps dissenting on the agency's proposal to ease media ownership rules, and his bench remarks following the vote.

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    Syria at the Crossroads

    May 02, 2003 04:00 AM EST

    Colin Powell arrived in Syria Friday for talks with President Bashar al-Assad and Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa. Simon Marks reports on what may lie ahead for Iraq's western neighbor now that Saddam Hussein's regime has been ousted.