• PBS NewsHour's guide to holiday civility

    PBS NewsHour's guide to holiday civility

    Nov 22, 2017 09:08 PM EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... is a moral imperative to help us, to come to our aid. And, yes, this is a humanitarian crisis. The world can see it. Our brothers and sisters from unions see it. Our brothers and sisters from New York, from California, from Miami Beach, from Boston, from Chicago see it ...

  • 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 EDT

    ... the lights on, and doing what we do after we have these damaging hurricanes. JUDY WOODRUFF: So, what would you say your greatest needs are right now? GOV. KENNETH MAPP: Infrastructure development, help in terms of building the power systems up, help in getting the road systems back up and ...

  • Agent Orange puts a new generation at risk in Vietnam

    Agent Orange puts a new generation at risk in Vietnam

    Sep 27, 2017 11:43 PM EDT

    At the height of the Vietnam War in 1968, two young Americans who shared a sense of service made two very different decisions: one joined the Marine Corps and one went to Saigon to help war orphans. Decades later, they share a common mission to help victims of illnesses caused by exposure to Agent Orange...