Wednesday,
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19
, 2008
10
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President-elect Barack Obama is beginning to create his cabinet and assess roles within the upcoming administration.
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May 1st, 2008 at 6:18 pm
American Masters: Marvin Gaye premieres Wednesday, May 7 at 8 p.m.; excerpts from the show are online, including part of a short but sweet American Bandstand appearance from 1964. Gaye sings “Pride and Joy”, his first top 10 single. Watch it here.
April 30th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
The death factory at Auschwitz was a closely guarded secret of the Third Reich — until two men, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, escaped to tell the world.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:48 am
“Every age,” writes Shakespeare scholar and cultural critic Marjorie Garber, “creates its own Shakespeare.”
P.O.V. / Tavis Smiley
April 29th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Ever since the ‘breast cancer’ gene BRCA was identified, women who have the gene have struggled with decisions of how that affects their bodies and futures. The two profiled below …
April 28th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
The award for Best TV Documentary from the Overseas Press Club for the program “Child Brides: Stolen Lives” was given to NOW this week. In the show, originally broadcast 10/12/2007, Maria Hinojosa traveled to Niger, India, and Guatemala for a revealing exploration of forced child marriage in developing countries. WATCH FULL EPISODE.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
The Korea Society just opened a new exhibition, Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic, a collection of photographs by award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris. The collection documents …
April 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
New research indicates that ancient Americans valued dogs not just for their companionship and work ethic, but for spiritual reasons too. Hundreds of prehistoric canines — along with jewelry and …
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Much was made in the recent Democratic debate about a connection between Barack Obama and ‘60s radical Bill Ayers, a founding member of the violent student protest group known …
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Pitch your ideas for a compelling video short by May 2. If selected, P.O.V. and WGBH will give you $2,000 to make it happen. Afterwards they’ll feature it online and may broadcast it on national TV! Part of P.O.V.’s new web initiative for the 2008 election. GO
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:31 am
Archaeologists make a grisly find: Four hundred skeletons buried in a mass grave. The bodies have lain undisturbed for 500 years, since the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. But this is no ordinary gravesite.
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Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
07
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Just two days after the judge declared the trial of three men suspected of involvement in Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder would be open to...
Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
06
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Jeff Seelbach
Juan Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, spoke in New York on Tuesday as part of the Columbia University World Leaders Forum. Morales, the...
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