Arts Oct 11 Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s ‘My People’ looks back on her trailblazing career in journalism By Judy Woodruff
Arts Jul 02 Watch 4:10 Drag Queen Story Hour offers a different kind of page-turner Children’s story hours are intended to instill a love of reading in young kids. But one reading program also seeks to spread messages about self-love, acceptance of others and appreciation of diversity: Drag Queen Story Hour, a national organization that… By Julia Griffin
Nation Jan 31 Watch 3:49 Melissa Malzkuhn on the power of connecting through language Melissa Malzkuhn was born deaf, and into a deaf family of gifted storytellers. In her brief but spectacular take, Malzkuhn describes how early access to sign language allowed her to connect with humanity. She's now the creative director of the… By Steve Goldbloom
Arts Aug 02 Watch 3:06 How art connects us to our ancestors and ourselves Growing up in a family with Chinese, Dutch-Indonesian and Native American ancestry, Kayla Briët says the first medium that really allowed her to express her identity was music. Briët offers her Brief but Spectacular take on storytelling through art, language…
Nation Mar 19 Watch 3:22 The power of your suffering is in how you tell your story Writer Aminatta Forna is often asked if she was traumatized by personal tragedy and national turmoil. To Forna, the ability to shape your own narrative, rather than having others shape it for you, is ultimately what matters most; being told… By Aminatta Forna
Jan 16 Watch 7:42 John Lithgow brings the magic of the bedtime story to Broadway By Jeffrey Brown When John Lithgow was a child, his father would act out his bedtime stories, a tradition he carried on when his father grew ill later in life. Now Lithgow brings his own tradition of storytelling to a one-man show on… Continue watching
Dec 26 Column: Why you should tell your kids tragic stories this holiday season By Marshall Duke, Emory University In every culture that anthropologists have ever studied, people tell stories. Families most frequently tell stories around the time of vacations, family reunions, (sadly) funerals, Thanksgiving and, of course, the family-oriented winter holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch 6:00 Telling stories helps refugee children learn a new language By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch Saturday, December 28, 2013 Unemployment benefits, rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward, and 'The Strangers Project.'… Continue watching
Jul 05 Watch Storyteller Jack Hitt on ‘Making Up the Truth’ Jeffrey Brown speaks with master storyteller Jack Hitt about his new solo show and what it's like to be a self-employed writer. Continue watching