Tag: PBS NewsHour

  • The PBS NewsHour Launches Year Long Conversation on Race, Diversity and Intolerance PBS NewsHour 2015-08-31 Media Relations Contacts: Nick Massella, Director of Audience Engagement and Communications James Blue, Senior Content and Special Projects Producer WASHINGTON, DC (August 31, 2015) – Michael Brown. Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. These are just three names that have dominated news…

  • Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina PBS NewsHour 2015-08-24 Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor & Managing Editor Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived Hurricane Katrina while staying at her grandmother’s house, she wrote “Salvage the Bones,” an award-winning novel about a…

  • Census Bureau may count Arab-Americans for the first time in 2020 PBS NewsHour Public Broadcasting System 2015-01-30 Jeff Karoub, Reporter The Associated Press DETROIT — The federal government is considering allowing those of Middle Eastern and North African descent to identify as such on the next 10-year Census, which could give Arab-Americans and other affected…