Aug 06 Born behind bars, this literary genre has ‘grown up’ to resonate with young adults By Kamala Kelkar A genre called urban literature was resurfaced by self-made entrepreneurs, often black women and many from prison. Continue reading
Aug 06 Watch 8:11 How a Hawaiian island is fighting invasive parakeets By Mori Rothman, Megan Thompson On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, rose-ringed parakeets, which are often kept as pets, have bred in the wild, destroying farms and bothering residents. They may also be threatening native plants. PBS NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson reports on local efforts… Continue watching
Aug 05 Watch 22:26 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Aug. 5, 2017 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, August 5, record heat sweeps across the western U.S. and parts of Europe. Later, one scholar offers a new perspective on income inequality, arguing that the top 20 percent of earners in American society, not… Continue watching
Aug 05 Watch 4:49 Usain Bolt, the fastest man in history, runs his last 100m dash By PBS News Hour Usain Bolt, the global track star from Jamaica, ran his last 100m dash on Saturday at the 2017 world championships, concluding a record-breaking career that spanned three Olympic Games. Christopher Clarey of The New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan to… Continue watching
Aug 05 These youth of color are organizing to address climate change By Jenna Gray On Thursday morning, hundreds of young people of color received an urgent message: they couldn’t afford not to be leaders in the fight against climate change. Continue reading
Aug 05 Usain Bolt, beloved star of track and field, runs final race By Omar Etman Usain Bolt, the global track superstar from Jamaica, ran the last race of his career on Saturday at the 2017 World Championships in London, placing third. Continue reading
Aug 05 Watch 4:29 Tillerson to address the Philippines’ deadly drug crackdown By PBS News Hour Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has embarked on a five-day trip across Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, he is expected to address President Rodrigo Duterte’s ongoing war on drugs, in which over 2,500 people have been killed. Lindsey Ford, the… Continue watching
Aug 05 Watch 7:09 How the upper middle class keeps everyone else out By PBS News Hour In the United States, people within the top 1 percent income bracket own one-third of the nation’s wealth. But scholar Richard Reeves, author of “Dream Hoarders,” argues that the top 20 percent has created an even starker divide with behaviors… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch 3:42 Arctic journey shows the glaring effects of climate change By PBS News Hour A Finnish icebreaker has completed the Northwest Sea passage, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Arctic. The trip, from Vancouver to Greenland’s capital city Nuuk, took 24 days -- a new record, in part because climate change… Continue watching
Jul 30 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode July 30, 2017 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, July 30, tensions rise following last week’s missile test by North Korea, and a deadly assault in the Philippines under the president’s violent crackdown on suspected drug users. In our signature segment, a model of… Continue watching