class

First Section of Long-Planned Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens

Education Jun 24

White, wealthy communities are forming their own school districts

By PBS NewsHour

In ‘Whitman’s Descendants,’ photographing some of America’s greatest living poets

Photographer B.A. Van Sise, himself a descendant of Walt Whitman, has set out to create a portrait of his legacy.

By Corinne Segal

The origin of ‘white trash,’ and why class is still an issue in the U.S.

In “White Trash,” Nancy Isenberg delves into the history of class in America, starting with British colonization. At that time, America was seen as a wasteland -- a place to discard the idle poor. The agrarian communities they subsequently formed…

By PBS NewsHour

Poet Franny Choi pictures a world without police

What world a world without police look like? Poet Franny Choi’s work attempts to answer that question.

By Corinne Segal

What’s splitting a new generation of haves and have-nots

Political scientist Robert Putnam grew up in Port Clinton, Ohio, a town where, he says, both rich and poor children grew up together and had bright opportunities. But in the past few decades, social mobility has declined and the haves…

By PBS NewsHour