JEFFREY BROWN:And that allows you to look at various strains of American culture, right, in this case, the '60s. Post-Watts Riots is the setting. WALTER MOSLEY:And the beginning of the hippy movement, which is a whole other surprising event in Califo...
JUDY WOODRUFF:Finally tonight: Dolly Parton's longtime passion project, passing on the gift of reading. The NewsHour's special correspondent for education, John Merrow, has the story. JOHN MERROW:Most of you are probably familiar with Dolly Parton, b...
GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight, the tale of a top-secret town with a top-secret mission and the women who made history there. Ray Suarez has our book conversation. RAY SUAREZ:During the mid-1940s, thousands of young women got offers of good-paying jobs w...
JEFFREY BROWN:And finally tonight, bringing contemporary African-American poetry into the public eye. CHARLES HENRY ROWELL, Callaloo: I think we're going to have to omit Colson Whitehead. JEFFREY BROWN:Meeting to plan the summer issue of the literacy...
6.jpg RAY SUAREZ:Next: a story about love, life and the quest for success in a modern metropolis. Jeffrey Brown has our book conversation. JEFFREY BROWN:A poor boy from a rural village comes to a sprawling, wild, sometimes violent city and struggles,...
JEFFREY BROWN:And finally tonight: remembering a giant of country music, George Jones. It was that distinctive voice and the ability to convey heartache and sorrow in song that made George Jones a country music legend. He turned out number one single...
JUDY WOODRUFF:Next: a treasure trove of cubist art and a record gift for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Margaret Warner has more. MARGARET WARNER:Philanthropist Leonard Lauder, an heir to the Estee Lauder estate, is giving the Met his en...
JEFFREY BROWN:And finally tonight, remembering the popular movie reviewer and television co-host Roger Ebert. He was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. He died today at age 70. Hari is back with our remembrance. 83.jpg HARI SREENIVASAN:...
JUDY WOODRUFF:As the Supreme Court took up arguments last week in two high-profile cases looking at same-sex marriage, many users of Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media took to changing their profile pictures. What was behind that viral...
GWEN IFILL:Next tonight: the debate over the role of the federal government. The issue was a central focus of last year's presidential campaign, and it is at the heart of a new book by Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general and a candidate for g...