Sonia Manzano is best known for her long-running role on Sesame Street. She joined the cast of the iconic PBS children’s ...

Matthew Bannister on Dick Cheney, the Republican politician who was Vice President under George W Bush and played key roles in both Gulf Wars. Yvonne Brewster, the Jamaican-born director and actor who ...

Although the NEA is the largest funder of the arts in the United States, it is also one of the smallest federal agencies.

In 1971, James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni sat down for a two-hour conversation broadcast on the PBS show SOUL! The two ...

Uganda has had the same president for nearly four decades, and opposition leaders face challenges in elections. Mamdani, born ...

Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected ...

Philanthropist Tom Golisano gifts $253 million to six hospitals to form a 10-hospital alliance of which Lee Health's Golisano Children's Hospital is a part.

The warming of the world's oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa's wind speed in less than 24 hours ...

A PBS documentary profiles the storied diplomat who was obsessed, for better and worse, with keeping his adopted country safe ...

Arkansas PBS and 60 organizations across the state have partnered for the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Sweater Drive as a tribute to Fred Rogers and his example of being a caring neighbor. The drive ...

The year 1971 marked the beginning of the end for the original Pontiac GTO. It was the final year the fabled nameplate stood alone before becoming a mere option package on the LeMans. Emissions rules, ...

Fun facts about Cleopatra: Although associated in the public mind with ancient Egypt, she lived closer to our time than to the building of the pyramids of Giza. When she was ruling Egypt and ...