Ten years after the bloody genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 people in just 100 days, Rwanda’s women are leading their country’s healing process and taking their society forward into a different future. This report reveals the challenges facing them and their country as Rwanda struggles to build the peace that has eluded the country [...]
Pennsylvania is facing decaying bridges, freeways, railways, and more. PA’s Governor Rendell talks to NewsHour’s Ray Suarez about how to pay for repairs. See interview…
Submit questions for NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff to answer on Sept. 30, on PBS’ ‘Engage’ website. It’s the first in a monthly series of live online chats with various producers, reporters, writer on PBS programs and documentaries. See all chats also.
The Human Spark crew visited neuroscientist Helen Neville in her Brain Development Lab at the University of Oregon. Check out some behind-the-scenes photos from the visit and the process of videotaping brain activity. View photo gallery…
Every year there are rumors that Coney Island is about to die, and every year the amusement park gets a reprieve. This time, with the closure of Astroland, things look grim. For now, Coney’s indomitable spirit lives on at the Coney Island Film Festival. Learn about the event…
The NYC Teaching Fellows program is designed to provide a steady influx of qualified teachers to NYC’s desperately underserved school systems. Learn more about the program’s failures, successes, problems and challenges…
Randall Filer, a professor of economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, speaks with Martin Savidge about how the crisis affects the borrowing power and interest rates in developing countries. Filer also expects the crisis to subside in a few months with a boon to U.S. taxpayers. Watch…
This is your chance to ask documentarian Ken Burns about his career, his documentaries, and plans for the future. PBS Engage will ask Ken Burns 5 questions from the ones submitted by you. They’ll post the Q&A next week. Ask here…
Read an interview with Cass Warner Sterling, granddaughter of Harry Warner, on her film about her grandparents and the rest of her family that founded Warner Bros. Studios.
