Dec 24 Watch Iconic Portland skate park on the front lines of gentrification By Christopher Booker, Connie Kargbo Continue watching
Dec 24 Watch ‘Othello: The Remix’ gives Shakespeare the hip-hop treatment By Zachary Green, Ivette Feliciano 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,… Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch 25:02 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Dec. 18, 2016 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Dec. 18, waging an information war, North Koreans who have escaped the country are smuggling media on USB sticks back to their homeland in hopes of helping others learn about life outside the country. Later,… Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch 3:26 Under Trump, White House staff shifts to right By PBS News Hour Since winning the election six weeks ago, Donald Trump has nominated most of his cabinet and picked top White House staff, all significant players in shaping U.S. policy. He’ll also have Republican majorities in both houses of Congress on his… Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch 3:31 Heroin deaths exceeded gun homicides in 2015 By PBS News Hour Last year, more than 30,000 people died from opioid overdoses, which cause almost two-thirds of all overdoses in the U.S., according to data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those data also show that last… Continue watching
Dec 18 From media cutoffs to lockdown, tracing the fallout from the U.S. prison strike By Kamala Kelkar On Sept. 9, thousands of inmates began a labor strike across the country. Here's what followed that strike. Continue reading
Dec 18 Watch 9:43 Defectors lift curtain on North Korea’s information blackout By Mori Rothman, Karla Murthy North Korea’s totalitarian government exercises tight control of all media consumed within its borders to maintain power over nearly 25 million citizens. But some who have escaped the country are waging an information war, smuggling media on USB sticks in… Continue watching
Dec 18 How media smuggling took hold in North Korea By News Desk In recent years, North Koreans who have escaped to South Korea have sought to undermine the regime's grip by smuggling outside media back to the country. Continue reading
Dec 17 Watch 25:59 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Dec. 17, 2016 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Dec. 17, President-elect Donald Trump wraps up his post-election tour. Later, Cubans are scrambling to accommodate a new surge in American tourists. Alison Stewart anchors from New York. Continue watching
Dec 17 Watch 5:31 In North Carolina, new laws to limit governor’s power By PBS News Hour Last month, incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory lost the governor's race to Democrat Roy Cooper. The election spurred Republican state lawmakers to call a special legislative session and pass laws that limit the power of the incoming governor. Michael Gerhardt,… Continue watching