Rev. William J. Barber has long tackled the issues of race, poverty and hatred through his political activism and his role as Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign. However, COVID-19 has brought to light deep-rooted fissures in our country's treatment…
The Rev. William J. Barber has long tackled the issues of race, poverty and hatred. His Poor People’s Campaign in June will hold a digital assembly and march on Washington to draw attention to civil rights issues. Hari Sreenivasan spoke…
https://youtu.be/sdVdXFfBwDk Miami is one of the worst cities in the U.S. to live in when it comes to affordable housing, and residents pay among the highest share of their incomes on rent. Combined with the city's vulnerablabiltiy to sea level…
Among more than 20 of the major U.S. symphony orchestras, only one woman has the top job of principal conductor.
A third of the Marshall Islands’ population has moved to the U.S., leaving a country reeling from high unemployment and the looming effects of climate change. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Mike Taibbi reports. This story is part of an ongoing…
Troy Williams did his time -- 18 years of a life sentence in California prison -- and he survived by using his experiences as bases for podcasts, videos and other documentation on the inside. Continuing these pursuits after parole in…
After reporting in Alabama and California, NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Simon Ostrovsky visits the final state that the UN says can exemplify some of the country’s most egregious human rights issues. More than one third of residents in McDowell County,…
Sanitary and living conditions for an estimated 2,000 homeless people along Los Angeles’ Skid Row are so severe that the United Nations recently compared them to Syrian refugee camps. How does extreme poverty persist in one of the country’s most…
The Trump administration has signaled it plans to strip employment authorization from spouses of some H-1B visa holders. The change would mean that nearly 100,000 people -- predominantly women from India who followed their spouses to the U.S. -- would…
A federal judge recently ruled against Kentucky’s work requirement for Medicaid recipients after it became the first state to impose it. The judge called the mandate “arbitrary and capricious” in a decision that could have an impact on other states…