• We asked every senator for their reaction to Trump’s anti-Muslim retweets

    We asked every senator for their reaction to Trump’s anti-Muslim retweets

    Nov 29, 2017 11:25 PM EST

    President Donald Trump shared three blatantly anti-Muslim tweets on Wednesday morning from the leader of a far-right, extremist British group called Britain First. The tweets, which contain videos that claim to show Muslims committing violent acts, drew sharp backlash from U.S. civil rights groups and government leaders ...

  • This filmmaker followed 45 years of change in Cuban life

    This filmmaker followed 45 years of change in Cuban life

    Nov 25, 2017 09:18 PM EST

    ... the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. JON ALPERT: If this film would have stopped in 1977 we'd all be headed down to Cuba right now based on where the revolution was at that particular point. But now the United States says, ‘You know, we know how to fix ...

  • This author is challenging what we know about Ulysses Grant and the Civil War

    This author is challenging what we know about Ulysses Grant and the Civil War

    Nov 22, 2017 11:25 PM EST

    ... snapping my fingers and singing in rhymed couplets. So, I'm trying to get beyond the image of the hip-hop historian. Jeffrey Brown: All right, so you -- but you provide the research for these things. It is interesting to think, though, about changing reputations and views of people. That ...

  • PBS NewsHour's guide to holiday civility

    PBS NewsHour's guide to holiday civility

    Nov 22, 2017 09:08 PM EST

    ... our loved ones are saying and then be as generous as we can be. You may come to the conclusion that your mom or your brother’s vision of the world is one you simply reject. So begin a conversation about what kind of world we want to live in ...

  • How Amy Tan’s family stories made her a storyteller

    How Amy Tan’s family stories made her a storyteller

    Nov 14, 2017 11:20 PM EST

    ... in the book, as you're pulling out documents and looking at photographs, each one is clearly a story, connecting to you as a storyteller, right? Amy Tan: It was finding out that my father and mother were illegal, and that's why my parents had lied on a form ...

  • South Africa grapples with contentious reminders of apartheid

    South Africa grapples with contentious reminders of apartheid

    Nov 10, 2017 11:25 PM EST

    Jeffrey Brown: A lot of people just wonder what a monument is, right, and what's it for. Jane Mufamadi: It's about the message that you're sending to the nation through a particular monument. It's about the lessons that we need to learn and draw from our ...

  • Puerto Rico faces huge challenges in rebuilding and reinventing K-12 education

    Puerto Rico faces huge challenges in rebuilding and reinventing K-12 education

    Oct 27, 2017 06:16 PM EST

    ... same school, or better. ... We can do it,” she said. Two of those meals from Bernardo Gonzalez Colon School went to Josh and Abdiel Rivera, brothers who were trying to keep up with English and math lessons while living in a classroom at Utuado’s Judith Avivas Elementary School. The ...

  • How Trombone Shorty is training the next generation of musicians in his hometown

    How Trombone Shorty is training the next generation of musicians in his hometown

    Oct 19, 2017 10:20 PM EST

    Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty, grew up with music all around him in New Orleans, first playing on the streets at age 4. Now with a Grammy, an international following and a new album, Andrews also devotes himself to the role of music educator in his hometown. Jeffrey Brown reports.

  • South Sudan civil war causes Africa’s worst refugee crisis

    South Sudan civil war causes Africa’s worst refugee crisis

    Oct 15, 2017 08:56 PM EST

    The United Nations says South Sudan’s four-year-old civil war has left half of the nation’s population -- 6 million people -- in need of humanitarian aid. The conflict began when South Sudan’s army split between factions loyal to President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar. The two men mobilized their respective tribes, the...

  • Battle to retake Raqqa inches toward conclusion

    Battle to retake Raqqa inches toward conclusion

    Oct 05, 2017 11:14 PM EST

    The U.S. has engaged its most intense bombing campaign since Vietnam in order to support militia forces in the battle for Raqqa, the Syrian city the Islamic State calls their capital. Capturing the city has been difficult because civilians inside have been trapped by ISIS and used as human shields. John Irvine of Independent Television...