• 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

    ... Brown: But this is what you were telling me about when you were a kid. You would just run into people? Troy Andrews: That's right. That's right. We would just run in. Jeffrey Brown: And everybody's a musician. Troy Andrews: everybody's a musician, yes. Even though ...

  • 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

    ... harrowing experience. She says four government soldiers from President Salva Kiir’s Dinka tribe stopped her as she was fleeing South Sudan and raped her right in front of her family. AGNES: (translated to English) When they started raping me, they told me not to raise alarm, otherwise they would ...

  • Battle to retake Raqqa inches toward conclusion

    Battle to retake Raqqa inches toward conclusion

    Oct 05, 2017 11:14 PM EST

    ... Okab, said speed was the best defense against rocket-propelled grenades. He handled his Humvee with the skill of a rally driver. Okab lost two brothers to the Islamic State, one shot, one beheaded. The commander we meet is nicknamed Earthquake. For three weeks, his unit has laid siege to ...

  • San Juan mayor: Trump can attack me as long as it gets out the message that Puerto Ricans are hungry

    San Juan mayor: Trump can attack me as long as it gets out the message that Puerto Ricans are hungry

    Oct 04, 2017 11:22 PM EST

    The federal response in Puerto Rico continues to draw criticism from locals, their dissatisfaction amplified by President Trump’s visit to the island on Tuesday. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz talks with special correspondent Monica Villamizar about the president’s visit and the disconnect she sees between the White House and the reality in Puerto Rico.

  • U.S. Virgin Islands need help rebuilding hospitals ‘from the ground up’

    U.S. Virgin Islands need help rebuilding hospitals ‘from the ground up’

    Sep 28, 2017 10:32 PM EST

    Along with Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria left the U.S. Virgin Islands in ruins. The islands are moving out of rescue and into recovery operations, but battered infrastructure and power grids will mean a full recovery is likely to be a long haul. Judy Woodruff speaks with U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp about how the...