Dec 26 Watch 2:45 Jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd on his lifelong intoxication with music By Frank Carlson For the latest installment in our music series, the NewsHour’s Frank Carlson caught up with jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd. Lloyd reflects on his lifelong love of music, his childhood in the musical haven of Memphis and why he believes jazz… Continue watching
Nov 29 Watch 8:23 In the black community, a division over charter schools By PBS News Hour With the election of Donald Trump, a big proponent of school choice, and his like-minded pick for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, the topic of charter schools is likely to attract more attention. But among African-American parents and the NAACP,… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch 8:51 To improve lifelong health, Memphis tries rooting out childhood trauma By PBS News Hour Childhood trauma such as abuse, neighborhood violence or the death of a parent has been found to lead to dire health and social problems later in life. How can communities intervene to spare future generations the same pain and illness?… Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch 9:42 How Memphis has changed the way police respond to mental health crises By PBS News Hour For decades, the Memphis Police Department has pioneered a model to better serve people experiencing a mental health crisis. The "Memphis Model," which aims to keep both officers and citizens safe and send fewer people to jail, has spread to… Continue watching
Aug 22 Watch Colleges emphasize student ‘stickiness’ to boost graduations By PBS News Hour In Tennessee, a disturbingly high dropout rate at public universities prompted the state to change how they fund schools: the more students graduate, the more a school gets paid. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the rise of performance-based funding and innovations… Continue watching
Jul 24 Blues musician John Németh gets ‘greasy’ in Memphis By Frank Carlson The first gigs that blues musician John Németh played were not in darkened, smoke-filled dives near the muddy banks of the Mississippi River, but at bright luncheons in Boise, Idaho for the religious group Catholic Daughters of America. Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch Blues musician John Németh gets ‘greasy’ in Memphis By Frank Carlson, Ariel Min Continue watching
May 23 Watch Memphis churches rally to close disparity in breast cancer survival rates By PBS News Hour The rate of breast cancer deaths for African American women nationally is 40 percent greater than that of white women, according to a study published in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology. In Memphis, the city with the widest disparity, a… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch Gibson Guitars Under Investigation Jeffrey Brown talks to Anita Wadhwani of the Tennessean about the case against Gibson. Continue watching
May 11 Watch All Eyes on Mississippi River Levees, Spillways as Flood Tensions Continue Crews filled sandbags and shored up levees along the Mississippi River as enormous volumes of water surged south. Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the levee and floodgate system with the Association of State Floodplain Managers' Larry Larson and… Continue watching