• A mentoring program that aims to keep Latino males in school

    A mentoring program that aims to keep Latino males in school

    Sep 13, 2016 11:44 PM EST

    ... Student: I want to make money after high school, so that when my mom gets older, I can put her in a house, and my brothers, like, keep them good. I just want to help my family after high school. HARI SREENIVASAN: Even when students get to college, financial obligations ...

  • Should 9/11 trials be held at Guantanamo Bay?

    Should 9/11 trials be held at Guantanamo Bay?

    Sep 10, 2016 06:36 PM EST

    ... to let people know everything about him. My thoughts are to celebrate what I had with him. PHIL HIRSCHKORN: Nebbia has also stared down her brother’s alleged killers in person at legal proceedings called military commissions at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. PHIL HIRSCHKORN: These ...

  • As a past accusation comes to light against filmmaker Nate Parker, will viewers want to watch?

    As a past accusation comes to light against filmmaker Nate Parker, will viewers want to watch?

    Aug 31, 2016 11:11 PM EST

    ... s to come, a rise of good against evil. ACTOR: What are we going to do? NATE PARKER: We will fight. Once it begins, our brothers and sisters will join. And we will number in the hundreds, thousands even. JEFFREY BROWN: Thirty-six-year-old Nate Parker wrote, directed and ...

  • 100 years later, National Park Service lands still grant us 'breathing space'

    100 years later, National Park Service lands still grant us 'breathing space'

    Aug 25, 2016 11:11 PM EST

    ... pipe in the American West, it was this wonderful juxtaposition between intrusion in the land and protected land. JEFFREY BROWN: The story of the land, right? TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS: So, I feel like the American West is in my bones in the deepest way. And I also felt conflicted at ...

  • What it will take to create quality preschool for all

    What it will take to create quality preschool for all

    Aug 16, 2016 05:12 PM EST

    ... scale,” meaning they needed to create systems that would work for thousands of teachers and tens of thousands of children, not just a few hundred. Right now, as a country, we are way behind New York City. The majority of the country’s preschool teachers and child care workers are ...

  • Kenyan entrepreneur grows business by helping young farmers

    Kenyan entrepreneur grows business by helping young farmers

    Aug 15, 2016 04:26 PM EST

    ... supply food for themselves, but because they see it as an economic opportunity and "they want to make money." Mumo, 28, grew up with five brothers in a poor village in eastern Kenya. His father was a primary school teacher and his mother stayed at home to care for the ...

  • Bringing ballet to the townships of South Africa

    Bringing ballet to the townships of South Africa

    Aug 07, 2016 02:36 PM EST

    A sprawling township outside of South Africa's biggest city of Johannesburg has become synonymous with a continued struggle nearly two decades after the end of apartheid. But while many cultural divides still remain, some black South Africans are now turning to ballet, once reserved for wealthy whites. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Martin Seemungal has the...

  • Column: The economic issues roiling South Africa on election day

    Column: The economic issues roiling South Africa on election day

    Aug 03, 2016 10:56 PM EST

    Political scandals and economic weakness have driven the party of Nelson Mandela to a moment of reckoning.

  • ‘Mothers of the Movement’ to end gun violence speak out

    ‘Mothers of the Movement’ to end gun violence speak out

    Jul 27, 2016 12:51 AM EST

    The mothers of seven African-Americans to die in gun violence were to take the convention stage in Philadelphia in a national call for gun control and police retraining. One of them is Florida’s Lucia McBath, whose 17-year-old son Jordan Davis was fatally shot for playing his music too loudly. She joins Gwen Ifill and Judy...

  • Hillary Clinton's campaign tries to reset Democratic National Convention

    Hillary Clinton's campaign tries to reset Democratic National Convention

    Jul 25, 2016 07:19 PM EST

    For Clinton, it was a turbulent start to a historic four-day gathering that will culminate in the nomination of the first woman to lead a major U.S. political party. It also sapped some of Clinton's energy coming out of Republican Donald Trump's chaotic convention last week and the well-received rollout Saturday of her running mate,...