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jeffrey brown looks back at his life and many contributions. >> what actions or deeds are you prepared to make to improve relations between cuba and the united states? >> robert macneil had a knack for being where the action was. he covered major stories around the world, entitled his 1982 memoir, the right place at the right time. >> i am a wordsmith. that is my trade. >> he was a lifelong lover of language, literature and the arts, who called himself in a later memoir word struck. and he was the visionary and driving force in the creation of the institution that with jim lehrer became the newshour. he described their approach this way. >> of fundamental fairness and objectivity and also the idea that the american public is smarter than they are often given credit for on television. they don't all need things in little bite sized candy sized mcnuggets of news. how can we add a respect for complexity to the news that was already there. and that's how our concept was born. >> robert macneil known to his friends as robin was born in montreal and raised in halifax, nova scotia. his canadi
jeffrey brown looks back at his life and many contributions. >> what actions or deeds are you prepared to make to improve relations between cuba and the united states? >> robert macneil had a knack for being where the action was. he covered major stories around the world, entitled his 1982 memoir, the right place at the right time. >> i am a wordsmith. that is my trade. >> he was a lifelong lover of language, literature and the arts, who called himself in a later memoir...
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for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in the san francisco bay area. ♪ geoff: kevin j. patel is a climate activist from los angeles. after experiencing health issues due to poor air quality in his city, he founded an organization aimed at giving young people from under-served communities a chance to be change-makers. on this year's earth day, he gives his brief but spectacular take on giving climate activism a shot. >> when i was younger, my parents told me the story of them leaving india. they had to come to america to seek better opportunities but as climate migrants. generations of my family are farmers. in india, with extreme droughts and extreme weather, it was not tenable for farmers. ♪ living in a community like south-central, you get to experience and see a lot of the injustice. one potent example is a lack of access to fresh fruit, non-gmo and organic, healthy produce. what we have an abundance of his fast food. i want to do something about it. my father taught me the ways in which to grow food. that sparked me teaching fellow peers about where their food com
for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in the san francisco bay area. ♪ geoff: kevin j. patel is a climate activist from los angeles. after experiencing health issues due to poor air quality in his city, he founded an organization aimed at giving young people from under-served communities a chance to be change-makers. on this year's earth day, he gives his brief but spectacular take on giving climate activism a shot. >> when i was younger, my parents told me the story of them leaving...
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jeffrey brown recently visited the san francisco bay area. >> accredited exhibition. the san francisco museum of modern art. they show quirks of leading contemporary artists. on display here, a large abstract payment -- painting by joseph aylett. >> it is a big thing. a big accomplishment. in my life. to see a painting like this and to imagine how i did -- it is well. >> he probably did not expect that when you started 21 years ago. >> no. here i am today, doing exhibitions. >> the cocreative growth art center their creative home. the organization celebrating its 50th year in office and open space, supplies and instructors like amy keefer. camaraderie and other support with develop mental, mental and physical disabilities. here is the executive director. >> the idea of being an artist is often privileged act so i think if we bring people into an artistic studio and said you can be creative here, we will support you, please tell us your story, please experiment, there is no right or wrong here. that is an incredible opportunity. >> wasting these are people of of mental
jeffrey brown recently visited the san francisco bay area. >> accredited exhibition. the san francisco museum of modern art. they show quirks of leading contemporary artists. on display here, a large abstract payment -- painting by joseph aylett. >> it is a big thing. a big accomplishment. in my life. to see a painting like this and to imagine how i did -- it is well. >> he probably did not expect that when you started 21 years ago. >> no. here i am today, doing...
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he spoke recently to jeffrey brown for our arts and culture series, canvas. jeffrey: as we sit here a little more than a year and a half after the attack, how are you? >> i'm surprisingly good. i mean, it's surprising to myself certainly, but also actually surprising to quite a lot of the army of doctors that i've been involved with, many of whom have said that the recovery is much in excess of what they would have expected. jeffrey: the knife attack, 15 stabs, came at the chautauqua institution in western new york, during a public talk on, of all things, the importance of keeping writers safe. it left salman rushdie near death. he would lose the use of his right eye and suffer numerous other injuries to his hand, and, chest and abdomen, , and undergo multiple surgeries, numerous setbacks, a painful, slow recovery. when he decided to write about it, he says now, the first word that came: the title, knife. >> at its most basic, it's the story of a knife attack, you know? but then i came to think of it in another way, a kind of metaphorical way. i came to think
he spoke recently to jeffrey brown for our arts and culture series, canvas. jeffrey: as we sit here a little more than a year and a half after the attack, how are you? >> i'm surprisingly good. i mean, it's surprising to myself certainly, but also actually surprising to quite a lot of the army of doctors that i've been involved with, many of whom have said that the recovery is much in excess of what they would have expected. jeffrey: the knife attack, 15 stabs, came at the chautauqua...
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jeffrey brown reports from hazard, kentucky. >> i have a book. reporter: mandy has long dreamed of having a place where she and fellow readers could gather to discuss books in hazard, kentucky. >> it is so out of what i typically read. reporter: it wasn't until january, 20 20 that her dream became a reality when she opened at this bookstore. >> access to a bookstore was two hours away. reporter: what made you think you could make it work? >> a lot of people ask that. reporter: what things did you hear? >> my husband said that people don't even read physical books anymore and i said that i do. reporter: her bookstore has not only survived but thrived first through a major flood and then the pandemic. >> appalachian literature is the best-selling section of the story. an author originally from hazard cells well. reporter: it is an unlikely success story made more remarkable by her own story. >> i was a junior in high school the first time i saw oxycontin. and from that point on, from the very first one i knew that this is what i needed. reporter: a
jeffrey brown reports from hazard, kentucky. >> i have a book. reporter: mandy has long dreamed of having a place where she and fellow readers could gather to discuss books in hazard, kentucky. >> it is so out of what i typically read. reporter: it wasn't until january, 20 20 that her dream became a reality when she opened at this bookstore. >> access to a bookstore was two hours away. reporter: what made you think you could make it work? >> a lot of people ask that....
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jeffrey brown first brought us appalshop's story in 2018. he recently returned for our arts and culture series, canvas. jeff: oh boy, not like i remember. roger: a lot different. jeffrey it's a center for : cultural preservation, now struggling to preserve itself appalshop, in whitesburg, kentucky. operations director roger may recalls the mess of water and mud he found when he first entered after the floods. roger: it was hard to reconcile what i was seeing with what i was supposed to be seeing. jeffrey for most of appalshop's : 55 year history, this building teemed with the vibrant sights, sounds, and stories of appalachia. first through filmmaking, expanding to the renowned roadside theater. a radio station, and music classes, all while building an ever-growing, one-of-a-kind archive that documented everything from music to mining. the central idea: to allow the people of this region to tell their own stories. the good as well as the hardships. >> i didn't know that you could do journalism in your own community. i didn't know you could te
jeffrey brown first brought us appalshop's story in 2018. he recently returned for our arts and culture series, canvas. jeff: oh boy, not like i remember. roger: a lot different. jeffrey it's a center for : cultural preservation, now struggling to preserve itself appalshop, in whitesburg, kentucky. operations director roger may recalls the mess of water and mud he found when he first entered after the floods. roger: it was hard to reconcile what i was seeing with what i was supposed to be...
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jeffrey brown spent a day around the nation's capital with them recently for our arts and culture series, canvas. ♪ >> the jerusalem youth course. israelis and palestinians, muslims and jews. residents of the same city experiencing life in the ongoing war in vastly different ways. disagreeing about fundamental issues and policies. but singing with and speaking to one another across the great divide. the 17-year-old is a palestinian muslim from east jerusalem. >> i stayed because it was so much more. >> how was it more? >> we have dialogue. we talked. if it were not for the choir, i would not have interacted with israelis like ever. it offered you that and a space to share my voice. i feel as a palestinian, you don't have many of those places where i live. >> this 15-year-old's from a jewish family living in westerleigh shall him. >> i thought it was only -- in west jerusalem. >> i thought it was only singing and never got separated into groups and started talking and sharing. . at first it was shocking but it was so interesting to >> you said it was shocking at first? >> a little bit.
jeffrey brown spent a day around the nation's capital with them recently for our arts and culture series, canvas. ♪ >> the jerusalem youth course. israelis and palestinians, muslims and jews. residents of the same city experiencing life in the ongoing war in vastly different ways. disagreeing about fundamental issues and policies. but singing with and speaking to one another across the great divide. the 17-year-old is a palestinian muslim from east jerusalem. >> i stayed because...
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jeffrey brown talks to the film's director as part of our arts and culture series, canvas. >> the time: the near future. the place: the eastern part of the united states, now a battle zone of armies, militias, armed individuals guarding their property. >> you don't know what side they are fighting >> someone is trying to kill us. we are trying to kill them. jeffrey: we don't know why this is happening, what factors brought the country to the brink. we just see and feel what it could be like if america really was at war with itself. >> what kind of american are you? jeffrey: british director and writer, alex garland. alex: i took on the subject because i had a set of anxieties and worries, and i wanted to join the conversation surrounding those anxieties and hopefully contribute to it. jeffrey: and those anxieties, those fears. how do you define them? alex: i would define them as a real concern about the power and the growth of extremist thinking within your country, my country and many european countries. the essence of the film in political terms is absolutely extremists versus centri
jeffrey brown talks to the film's director as part of our arts and culture series, canvas. >> the time: the near future. the place: the eastern part of the united states, now a battle zone of armies, militias, armed individuals guarding their property. >> you don't know what side they are fighting >> someone is trying to kill us. we are trying to kill them. jeffrey: we don't know why this is happening, what factors brought the country to the brink. we just see and feel what it...
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jeffrey browns speaks to author percival everett for our arts and culture series, canvas. jeffrey: a trip down the mississippi river in 19th century america, taken by a young white boy, huck finn, and an enslaved black man named jim, running for his life. huck told the story in mark twain's 1884 novel. but what if jim had his say? >> it's only fair smile. jeffrey it's only fair? : everett: yes, jim, this character who has become iconic in our literary landscape has, he's never had a chance to speak. jeffrey: in percival everett's novel, jim, or, james, does, in a voice that is knowing, funny, pained and deeply humane. expanding the world everett first found in the adventures of huckleberry finn. >> i read an abridged version of it when i was very young. but when i was a teenager and i read it again, it had a lot more resonance, even though it was also problematic because of the depiction of jim. jeffrey: we joined everett at new york's renowned strand bookstore'.where he was signing an enormous stack of his widely acclaimed new book. >> i've seen this novel described in di
jeffrey browns speaks to author percival everett for our arts and culture series, canvas. jeffrey: a trip down the mississippi river in 19th century america, taken by a young white boy, huck finn, and an enslaved black man named jim, running for his life. huck told the story in mark twain's 1884 novel. but what if jim had his say? >> it's only fair smile. jeffrey it's only fair? : everett: yes, jim, this character who has become iconic in our literary landscape has, he's never had a...
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jeffrey brown reports from hazard, kentucky. correspondent: 42-year-old manny has long dreamed of having a place where she and fellow readers get together. it was not until january 2028 that her dream became a reality when she opened the small bookstore in downtown hazard. >> access to a bookstore was two hours away, so i knew there were other people who would buy into this idea. correspondent: what made you think it could work? >> that is what my husband said. he said people do not read physical books anymore. i said i do and i know people who do. correspondent: bookstore is not only survived, but derived first of a major flood and then the pandemic. >> as far as appellation literature, silas house, someone originally from hazard. correspondent: made to more remarkable by her own story. >> i was probably a junior in high school the first time i saw oxycontin, and from that point on, from the very first one i knew that this is what i needed. correspondent: after several years of daily opioid use she kicked a prediction in 2005,
jeffrey brown reports from hazard, kentucky. correspondent: 42-year-old manny has long dreamed of having a place where she and fellow readers get together. it was not until january 2028 that her dream became a reality when she opened the small bookstore in downtown hazard. >> access to a bookstore was two hours away, so i knew there were other people who would buy into this idea. correspondent: what made you think it could work? >> that is what my husband said. he said people do not...
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jeffrey brown, jolene, hunter, anthony, kate, pamela, alice, helen, ronald, patrick mcgrath, adam from the enforcement bureau. brendan murray and rae lynn from the media bureau. johan, paul often pain, jamie from the office of economics and analytics. joslyn james from the office of communications business opportunities. denise, kate, francis, tom sullivan from the office of international affairs. michelle ellison, michael janssen, doug klein, jake lois, scott novak, eric olson, joe, jeffrey steinberg, from the office of general counsel. ken, rebecca and debra jordan, mickey, jim, and james wiley from the public safety and homeland security bureau and stephanie, garnet, suzanne, paul, roger noel, jessica quentin lee, peter, linda ray, nadia, and matthew warner from the wireless telecommunications bureau. they are broadband champions, all of them. and with that, we will take a vote on the item. the item is adopted with editorial privileges as requested. madam secretary, can you mention the next item for today's agenda? [applause] >> madame chairwoman and commissioners, items 3, 4, 5, 6,
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gloria brown, marshal jeffrey rosen, thanks so much for being with us cnn's special coverage of the oral arguments before the supreme court. they will start in just a few minutes at the top of the hour, sarah. >> all right ahead. >> if the judge decides donald trump violated a gag order, there's a very, very small i'll chance he might put the president, former president, in jail, the secret service is getting ready just in case that happens. >> also after a tense night of standoffs, administrators at columbia university are giving pro-palestinian protesters t additional days to negiate breaking down their encampment. we have the very latest from canvas a the clock ticking o tiktok tod, presidt biden set to sign the bill that would force china-baseowner to sell the app or face a nationwide ban. >> we'll dis riyad saves new album is breaking records for decades. >> venture capital has arguably been one of the highest performing investment except for most investors, it was out of reach until now at the. fund drives innovation fund. you can invest in some of the world's top tech companies in
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brown, colman domingo, jeffrey wright, amber ruffin. >> seth: amber, you weren't nominated for an oscar. >> yet. just wait until you see my work in "my boss is a monster, the amber ruffin story." [ laughter ] anyway, these oscars are so black, they might as well be the b.e.t. awards. >> seth: good one. >> you don't know what that is. >> seth: i know what the b.e.t. awards are. >> "i know what the b.e.t. awards are." every time you give me lip, it's going in the movie. [ light laughter ] then i heard that the alabama supreme court said that frozen embryos are children, and i was like what -- classes did you take to get your law degree, biology for misogynists? and if frozen embryos are children, i'm going to make a bunch, move myself and my freezer down to alabama so i can claim 47 dependents on my taxes. [ laughter and applause ] and i'll get there fast too, because me and my eggs can take the carpool lane. [ laughter ] then the best thing in the world happened. a new york judge ordered trump to pay $355 million, and i was like wha-ha-ha-hat! now, i got to be honest. i'm not sure for wh
brown, colman domingo, jeffrey wright, amber ruffin. >> seth: amber, you weren't nominated for an oscar. >> yet. just wait until you see my work in "my boss is a monster, the amber ruffin story." [ laughter ] anyway, these oscars are so black, they might as well be the b.e.t. awards. >> seth: good one. >> you don't know what that is. >> seth: i know what the b.e.t. awards are. >> "i know what the b.e.t. awards are." every time you give me...
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, jackson going over some of these arguments with jeffrey green, a lawyer for one of those defendants, and i'm back out here with paula reid and shan wu fascinating case. obviously lots of implications for all of those january 6 defendants, possibly for the former president and all of this, but now one of the things that we jumped on this as soon as we came on the air with as paul on that is clarence thomas yesterday was missing missing an action yesterday. we didn't really get a clear explanation as to what was going on. >> he is back today and a shan was noting as we're watching this, you couldn't see us. >> we're off camera at that point. >> he was pretty active there yeah, he clearly making a point. >> right. because as we said before the argument started, the biggest question before we get to the legal arguments. whereas justice clarence thomas, because as you said yesterday, not only was he absent, they didn't provide an explanation. and as the most senior associate justice on the supreme court, that raises a lot of serious questions because we are in an election she near never
, jackson going over some of these arguments with jeffrey green, a lawyer for one of those defendants, and i'm back out here with paula reid and shan wu fascinating case. obviously lots of implications for all of those january 6 defendants, possibly for the former president and all of this, but now one of the things that we jumped on this as soon as we came on the air with as paul on that is clarence thomas yesterday was missing missing an action yesterday. we didn't really get a clear...