• How students experience and cope with racist stereotypes

    How students experience and cope with racist stereotypes

    Jan 20, 2020 05:35 PM EDT

    ... King said those words, American students say they still encounter racial stereotypes in their daily lives. To mark today’s anniversary of King’s birth, PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs collected testimonies about racism from our recent No Labels Attached project on misconceptions and stereotypes. In interviews with their ...

  • Trump dishes out double helping of presidential turkey pardon

    Trump dishes out double helping of presidential turkey pardon

    Nov 26, 2019 11:15 PM EDT

    ... is the eighth I have had the privilege to meet and set free in the Rose Garden. Amna Nawaz: In 2000, Jerry the turkey from Wisconsin sported a White House pass around his neck. Four years later, the Bush administration also had some fun. The names of that year's ...

  • Why on-screen representation matters, according to these teens

    Why on-screen representation matters, according to these teens

    Nov 14, 2019 10:33 PM EDT

    ... feel that Hollywood is overcompensating for their lack of diversity by depicting exaggerated and stereotypical characters. Eric Wojtalewicz from Black River Falls High School in Wisconsin said that he sees a lot of gay characters that seem “over-the-top,” playing on old tropes. “I definitely think that not all ...

  • Why the 2019 Nobel Prizes in STEM struggled with diversity

    Why the 2019 Nobel Prizes in STEM struggled with diversity

    Oct 14, 2019 08:06 PM EDT

    ... scientific mindset or approach to these issues,” said Angela Byars-Winston, the first black woman to become a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Research has proven that good intentions are not enough, Byars-Winston said. Organizations that are serious about increasing diversity must implement well-thought ...

  • What 2020 hopefuls can learn from ghosts of Septembers past

    What 2020 hopefuls can learn from ghosts of Septembers past

    Aug 28, 2019 08:16 PM EDT

    We are about to cross into a new zone in presidential politicking, moving from “it’s too early” to “it all matters” in the Democratic nomination fight. This threshold has a name: September. The PBS NewsHour looked at the past six presidential races and found some patterns in the Septembers ...

  • WATCH: Ryan thinks Biden would have better chance against Trump than other 2020 Democrats

    WATCH: Ryan thinks Biden would have better chance against Trump than other 2020 Democrats

    Jun 24, 2019 09:35 PM EDT

    ... voters away from President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. "I think we can beat [Warren and Sanders] in our kinds of states," Ryan told PBS NewsHour managing editor and anchor Judy Woodruff in an interview at the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival. Instead, the former Republican congressman from Wisconsin said ...

  • Why children struggling with mental health say stigma can be deadly

    Why children struggling with mental health say stigma can be deadly

    Jun 06, 2019 10:20 PM EDT

    A new documentary produced by our colleagues at Milwaukee PBS in collaboration with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel follows four young people from Wisconsin who are navigating mental health challenges. They’ve endured assault, bullying, incarceration and discrimination, and in some cases considered suicide. Yet through it all, these children in ...

  • Across the country, 2020 Democrats appeal to working-class voters

    Across the country, 2020 Democrats appeal to working-class voters

    Apr 29, 2019 10:45 PM EDT

    ... working families. Lisa Desjardins: Biden is zeroing in on a key set of 2020 battlegrounds, seeking to rebuild the so-called blue wall, states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, home to many white working-class voters. Biden and President Obama won those three states both in 2008 and 2012. But ...

  • Lethal plans: When seniors turn to suicide in long-term care

    Lethal plans: When seniors turn to suicide in long-term care

    Apr 10, 2019 10:26 PM EDT

    When Larry Anders moved into the Bay at Burlington nursing home in late 2017, he wasn’t supposed to be there long. At 77, the stoic Wisconsin machinist had just endured the death of his wife of 51 years and a grim new diagnosis: throat cancer, stage 4. His son ...

  • Durbin set to reintroduce his anti-domestic terrorism bill. Here's how it would work

    Durbin set to reintroduce his anti-domestic terrorism bill. Here's how it would work

    Mar 27, 2019 07:05 PM EDT

    ... questions about the administration’s response to domestic terrorism writ large, as well as the still-unscheduled joint meeting, DHS spokesman Tyler Houlton told the PBS NewsHour in an email, “The Department of Homeland Security is committed to combating all forms of violent extremism, especially movements that espouse racial supremacy ...