• How Smokey Robinson knows a good song when he sees one

    How Smokey Robinson knows a good song when he sees one

    Feb 11, 2017 12:42 AM EDT

    ... Detroit's North End, where, quite literally, the stars aligned. SMOKEY ROBINSON: Diana Ross grew up four doors down the street from me, Aretha Franklin right around the corner, you know, and the Temptations right across the area, I mean, right across the avenue, and the Four Tops. We had ...

  • News Wrap: Trump visits CENTCOM, defends travel ban

    News Wrap: Trump visits CENTCOM, defends travel ban

    Feb 07, 2017 12:34 AM EDT

    ... Washington, families previously denied entry under President Trump's travel order now met with applause, some due to the weekend's court orders, others like brothers Tareq and Ammar Aziz from Yemen because they are green card holders who had to reschedule after confusion over their status. TAREQ AZIZ, Green ...

  • 5 important stories that aren't getting much attention this week

    5 important stories that aren't getting much attention this week

    Jan 30, 2017 09:58 PM EDT

    ... children buzzing around the camps that get set up for internally displaced persons." Now, they're seldom seen, the organization said. "We saw only older brothers and sisters. No toddlers straddling their big sisters’ hips. No babies strapped to their mothers’ backs. It was as if they had vanished," they ...

  • Jeff Sessions to face Sen. Cory Booker and civil rights questions at confirmation hearing

    Jeff Sessions to face Sen. Cory Booker and civil rights questions at confirmation hearing

    Jan 10, 2017 02:35 PM EDT

    ... flooding across the border, spikes in violent crime in American cities and low morale among police. "These trends cannot continue. It is a fundamental civil right to be safe in your home and your community," the Alabama Republican said in laying out conservative priorities for the Justice Department at the ...

  • Column:  What I learned about motivation from being a teenage burn victim

    Column: What I learned about motivation from being a teenage burn victim

    Jan 05, 2017 09:19 PM EDT

    ... one of her kids had just passed away. She asked me whether she should tell her surviving son (I’ll call him “Bill”) about his brother’s death. I had no idea what to say, but again I tried to transport myself back in time. I tried to think about ...

  • Column: Work means everything to us — and hereafter it can’t

    Column: Work means everything to us — and hereafter it can’t

    Jan 05, 2017 06:56 PM EDT

    ... line is this: most jobs aren’t created by private, corporate investment, so raising taxes on corporate income won’t affect employment. You heard me right. Since the 1920s, economic growth has happened even though net private investment has atrophied. What does that mean? It means that profits are pointless ...

  • Column: Why we need to say goodbye to work

    Column: Why we need to say goodbye to work

    Jan 03, 2017 09:44 PM EDT

    Work means everything to us. But our beliefs around work are no longer plausible. In fact, they’ve become ridiculous, because there’s not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won’t pay the bills.

  • Column: I'm predicting an economic recession in 2017. Are you ready?

    Column: I'm predicting an economic recession in 2017. Are you ready?

    Jan 03, 2017 07:05 PM EDT

    The current U.S. economic expansion is nearly the third-longest since the 1850s, making a recession likely in 2017. It's time to get ready.

  • The shows you should have watched in 2016

    The shows you should have watched in 2016

    Dec 29, 2016 12:22 AM EDT

    What were the best TV or streaming shows of 2016? Jeffrey Brown sits down with television critics UPROXX’s Alan Sepinwall and NPR’s Eric Deggans to discuss their picks.

  • ‘Othello: The Remix’ gives Shakespeare the hip-hop treatment

    ‘Othello: The Remix’ gives Shakespeare the hip-hop treatment

    Dec 24, 2016 07:15 PM EDT

    At the Westside Theatre in New York City, audiences are watching "Othello: the Remix," a retelling of William Shakespeare's classic play that transforms the protagonist into a rising hip-hop star. NewsHour Weekend's Ivette Feliciano sits down with the Q Brothers, the rap and theater artists who created the show, and other cast members.