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Reallife interviews. She then interprets her subjects words playing many characters in onewoman shows. Ive followed several catastrophes over my career, and i find that catastrophe is the place where people become most creative in their language. One of her latest projects a play about the schoolto prison pipeline a trend in which children move from the classroom into the criminal justice system. I met a young man who was in prison outside of of washington, d. C. He is 18 years old. He says, onc...

Report from the turkish syrian border. The first,es not but this time sustained. Again and again throughout the , coalition were chains were tanks. It did not seem to stop the fighting, but seem to bring the militants advanced to wage uttering halt. At times, kobane was eerily quiet. Very different from the ferocious battles of recent days. These pictures released by the kurds showed just how intense the fighting has been. And a video put out by the fighters shows i. S. Advancing to a hill overl...

Welcome to Newsroom International im Suzanne Malveaux taking you around the world in 60 minutes. Heres whats going on rights now. Kind of weird. This is an online video showing new york city in flames, north korean rockets launching and a north korean man sleeping like a baby. The music in the background, we are the world, the video posted by a north korean propaganda web site hits the webs a few weeks after north koreas launch of a satellite. We will talk more about this video. We want to bring...

The east coast could be walloped with close to three feet of snow. Well tell you what you need to know about this major storm thats approaching. New this morning, u. S. Secrets possibly exposed. Iran releasing data that it claims it hacked from a drone. Well have a live report ahead. Governor Chris Christie has some harsh words for a doctor who said she was afraid he would die in office. He says come see him or zip it. Until that time, she should shut up. New details about Lance Armstrongs effor...

At first, the shooting that occurred in a late february night in a small town in Central Florida didnt make national headlines. What is your emergency for police, fire and medical . An unarmed africanamerican teenager wearing a hoodie was shot and killed by a neighborhood volunteer watchman who had hopes of becoming a policeman. The teenager, the watchman said, had attacked him. Police quickly responded and soon George Zimmerman was being led inside the Sanford Police station for questioning. Bu...

Talking with each other. Can we all get along . [ applause ] in about 20 minutes from now David Dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york citys 106th mayor and the citys first africanamerican mayor. I intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. David dinkins being inaugurated on new years day in 1990 is sort of an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of...

Mariah Stovall on her debut novel, a chocolate lover’s dream, Anna Deavere Smith at NGA, Bodega at Comet, and Belle & Sebastian.

The Grand Alliance between Black and Jewish leaders, known largely for shared work on Civil Rights in the 1960s, has a complicated legacy--and an uncertain future between these communities.

Certain scholars doubted an ex-slave could have written ‘The Bondwoman’s Narrative,’ a novel that channeled Dickens's ‘Bleak House’ and evinced…

Beloved political drama The West Wing was inspired by the Michael Douglas-Annette Bening rom-com The American President. Heres how it came to be.