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PBS NewsHour, Toni Morrison On Capturing A Mother's "Compulsion" To Nurture In "Beloved"

produced by NewsHour Productions; interview by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, 1942-, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions), 13 mins

To remember Toni Morrison, the PBS NewsHour unearthed this 1987 interview with the celebrated American author. At the time, Morrison's "Beloved" had just been published.

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PBS NewsHour, Interview with poet Seamus Heaney

produced by NewsHour Productions; interview by Elizabeth Farnsworth, 1943-, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2000), 11 mins

Interview with poet Seamus Heaney on his translation of the poem Beowulf"

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PBS NewsHour, Americans Are Drowning In Medical Debt, So This Nonprofit Is Buying — And Forgiving — It

produced by Public Broadcasting Service; interview by Paul Solman, 1944-, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2019), 7 mins

Collectively, Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars of medical debt, and Congress is trying to figure out a policy response. But in the meantime, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on an unusual non-profit’s effort to relieve the burden of medical debt for those in need.

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PBS NewsHour, How Chanel Miller took her story back after her rapist’s lenient sentence left her feeling ‘invisible’

produced by NewsHour Productions; interview by Amna Nawaz, 1979-, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2019), 9 mins

For years, she was known to the world as "Emily Doe," the survivor of a sexual assault that garnered national attention in part because her attacker served only three months in prison, a sentence that sparked outrage. This week, Chanel Miller is stepping into the spotlight with a new memoir, "Know My Name." Miller...

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PBS NewsHour, These Forest Fungi Are A Bounty For Arizona Mushroom Hunters

produced by Public Broadcasting Service, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2019), 3 mins

Mushroom hunters have long fanned out across the forest floor seeking what can be lucrative and delicious finds for teas, broths and medicinal remedies. But what does climate change mean for the fungi? From the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, Melanie Porter reports on what the foragers o...

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PBS NewsHour, Why Chernobyl has suddenly become a hotspot for global tourists

produced by NewsHour Productions, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2019), 6 mins

"The site of the world’s worst radiological catastrophe is unexpectedly coming back to life -- due to an American television show. Scores of tourists are visiting Chernobyl, located in northern Ukraine, in response to an HBO miniseries that illuminates the disaster, which occurred before Ukraine’s independence...

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PBS NewsHour, Water-Stressed Cities In India Turn To Innovation For A Safe, Stable Supply

produced by Public Broadcasting Service, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2020), 7 mins

Half the population of India lives in areas where water resources are highly stressed. In the coastal city of Chennai, rapid economic development and a population boom have jeopardized supplies of freshwater, prompting officials to rely on desalination of the ocean. But some local residents have found a simpler an...

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PBS NewsHour, How This Philanthropist Hopes To Boost Mid-Career Women Artists

produced by Public Broadcasting Service; interview by Jeffrey Brown, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2020), 6 mins

The work of women artists makes up only 3 to 5 percent of major museums' permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe. Many of these artists struggle financially -- but Susan Unterberg is trying to change that. For decades, the artist has supported her female peers as an anonymous benefactor. Jeffrey Brown sits do...

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PBS NewsHour, This Philadelphia Art Exhibit Pushes The Envelope With Designs For The Future

produced by Public Broadcasting Service, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2020), 6 mins

What will the future look like? That’s the big question posed by a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eighty designers from around the world have put their imaginations to work, leveraging both anxiety and excitement over the possibilities offered by innovation and new technology. Jeffrey Brown re...

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PBS NewsHour, The "Speechless: Different By Design" Exhibit Uses Brain Science To Inform Art

produced by Public Broadcasting Service, in PBS NewsHour (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2020), 6 mins

At the exhibition "Speechless: Different by Design," touching pieces of art is actually encouraged. As Jeffrey Brown reports, the Dallas Museum of Art show -- created as a collaboration between designers and brain researchers -- explores how people interact with their surroundings and how they communicate with eac...

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