Arts Jul 29 Artist Mario Moore’s work seeks to enshrine Black Americans’ presence By Jeffrey Brown, Lorna Baldwin
Arts Jul 21 Watch 6:58 Need a new summer read? Here’s a diverse list to pick from With summer in full swing, you may be wondering what books to take along on vacation — or enjoy right at home. Jeffrey Brown talks with two writers who have answers to that question. It’s part of our arts and… By Jeffrey Brown, Alison Thoet
Arts Sep 24 Watch 7:23 Memory is a superpower in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel about the Underground Railroad To make the case for reparations for the toll of slavery, acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has offered forceful advocacy and powerful data-driven argument. With his first novel, "The Water Dancer," he uses fiction to illuminate the Underground Railroad. Coates joins… By PBS NewsHour
Poetry Sep 19 Watch 7:23 U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo on opening a ‘doorway of hope’ for indigenous artists Joy Harjo, the new poet laureate of the United States, is the first Native American to achieve that honor. Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with Harjo, a member of Oklahoma's Muscogee Creek Nation, in Tulsa to discuss how arts shaped… By Jeffrey Brown, Kira Wakeam
Arts Nov 17 WATCH: Jeffrey Brown interviews authors at the Miami Book Fair This Saturday and Sunday, watch live interviews with author John Grisham, young adult novelist Kwame Alexander, novelist Sandra Cisneros, historian Michael Beschloss, commentator Rebecca Traister and more. By artsdesk
Oct 24 Watch 5:46 Octavio Solis on growing up a ‘skinny brown kid’ on the U.S.-Mexico border By Jeffrey Brown As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a “skinny brown kid” in El Paso in his memoir “Retablos”. Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite… Continue watching
Apr 21 WATCH: Jeffrey Brown interviews authors at the LA Times Festival of Books By News Desk The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is bringing more than 500 authors and thousands of fans together for a weekend-long celebration of reading. Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch Forging art and business in Dale Chihuly’s workshop By PBS News Hour Artist Dale Chihuly has become synonymous with reimagining what glass can do. Having long ago stopped blowing glass himself, at 75, he heads an art world enterprise at his Seattle studio. But using a team of artists to create his… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 8:02 Can a new generation of Americans serve up great tennis? By PBS News Hour For the first time since 1981, all four women’s U.S. Open semifinalists are American. But it’s a different story for their male counterparts, who haven’t won the semifinals since Andy Roddick in 2003. It’s a long drought that American tennis… Continue watching
Sep 04 Watch 5:10 Remembering John Ashbery, acclaimed writer who pulled poetry ‘from the air’ By PBS News Hour Considered one of the country’s most influential poets, John Ashbery died Sunday at the age of 90. He was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Jeffrey Brown revisits his conversation with Ashbery from 2007, where… Continue watching