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An outsider artist’s unblinking look at racial terror
Mary Frances Whitefield said her art shifted when she made a trip to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in the early 1990s, where she saw images of lynching and the Ku Klux Klan. Whitfield could not shake the images and…
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Lee Fields used to be ‘Little James Brown,’ but these days, he’s all himself
Now touring on his new album, "It Rains Love," soul singer Lee Fields spoke with the PBS NewsHour on how he forged his own path, why he left the music business for several years, and what it was like meeting…
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In Nashville, the nonprofit Music for Seniors connects the city's musicians with its older residents in an effort to build community and improve seniors' quality of life. Now, the organization is teaming up with researchers at Vanderbilt University to see…
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Jane Fonda: ‘Older women have always tended to be the bravest’
Jane Fonda spoke with the PBS NewsHour about getting arrested and being an older activist. "When you're older, what have…
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An artist died without widespread recognition. His daughter wants to change that
O. Gail Poole was a prolific artist. But like his artistic hero, Vincent Van Gogh, Poole died in relative artistic…
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Since 2012, the families of several unarmed young American black men shot to death by police in high-profile incidents have…
‘Sesame Street’ turns 50
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Why Edward Norton fought to deliver his new film, ‘Motherless Brooklyn’
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Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation town germinated the stories of black struggles that…
Justice Department sends letter to publisher of anonymous book on Trump’s presidency
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Writer called county ‘worst place to live,’ then moved there
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