Crash Course
Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214
In which John Green teaches you about Beloved by Toni Morrison. I'll warn you up front, this book is something of a downer. That's because it deals with subjects like slavery, the death of a child, a potential haunting, and a bunch of...
Crash Course
Toni Morrison: Crash Course Black American History #48
Today, Clint Smith will teach you about the legendary writer Toni Morrison. Morrison is best known for her novels which chronicle the experiences of Black Americans throughout history. She was the first Black American Woman to win a...
TED-Ed
Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"? | Yen Pham
Two tiny handprints stamped into a cake. A mirror that shatters without warning. A trail of cracker crumbs strewn along the floor. Everyone at 124 Bluestone Road knows their home is haunted— but there's no mystery about the spirit...
Mr. Beat
Why You Don't Hear Dirty Words on Radio or TV | FCC v. Pacifica Foundation
In episode 18 of Supreme Court Briefs, a son doesn't like his teenage son hearing bad words on the radio, so takes action. George Carlin, meanwhile, remains perplexed.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - 'If We Think of Light' (for Eve, Jibreel and Gideon)
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Roberto Carlos Garcia - Elegy in the Key of Life
Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Film Threat'
Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Renee Linnell - Still On Fire: A Memoir - Magic, Miracles, Travel and Romance
Renee Linnell is a serial entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded five companies and has an MBA from New York University; before that she was a model and professional dancer. Having an unorthodox childhood and being surrounded by death...
Poetry Foundation
Hannah Hart reads Khalil Gibran
Hannah Hart reads "On Work" from Khalil Gibran's book, The Prophet.
Poetry Foundation
Shailene Woodley reads Khalil Gibran
Shailene Woodley reads a poem on love from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran.
Bloomberg
Goodbye, Tom: Why Boston Loved Mayor Menino
Oct. 30 -- Remembering the Boston mayor who shook more hands and ate more chowder than any other. (Source: Bloomberg)
Curated Video
Obama makes surprise appearance at NBA event
Former President Barack Obama made an unannounced appearance Friday at an NBA Cares event during All-Star weekend in his hometown of Chicago with several of the league's top rookies, second-year players and coaches.
Curated Video
Obama makes surprise appearance at NBA event
Former President Barack Obama made an unannounced appearance Friday at an NBA Cares event during All-Star weekend in his hometown of Chicago with several of the league's top rookies, second-year players and coaches.
Curated Video
Trump comments on Europe attacks, IS threat
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLYYoungstown - 15 August 2016++ NO SETUP AND END SHOT++1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Trump, Republican Presidential Candidate:"In Europe, we have seen the same carnage and...
Curated Video
More than 1000 belongings of actress Elizabeth Taylor go on the auction block this weekend
MORE THAN 1000 BELONGINGS OF ACTRESS ELIZABETH TAYLOR GO TO AUCTION THIS WEEKEND
Curated Video
Dignitaries visit Reagan coffin in rotunda
POOL - Washington DC
1. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist walking towards coffin
2. Thatcher and Frist near coffin
3. Thatcher touching and bowing to the coffin
4. Thatcher touching...
Curated Video
WRAP Reax as Israel agrees to swap soldiers' bodies for prisoner
Beirut
1. Mid of photograph of Samir Kantar
2. Photograph of Samir Kantar and other militants before Kantar was captured in 1979
3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Bassam Kantar, Samir Kantar's brother
"I think that this decision and the voting, the...
Sky News
Sermon being delivered in a mosque
CLEAN: Interior shots of a group of men sat in mosque listening to an Imam preaching a sermon ahead of Open Mosque Day on 1 March 2019 in London, United Kingdom
Bloomberg
2020 to Be Euro's Smallest Annual Trading Range by Miles: SocGen
Dec.24 -- Kit Juckes, chief FX strategist at Societe Generale, discusses the outlook for European Central Bank policy, inflation and the euro in 2020. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: European Open."
Curated Video
Obama makes surprise appearance at NBA event
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AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Hundreds of New York couples celebrate unions after weddings derailed by pandemic
Around 500 couples whose weddings were derailed due to the pandemic participate in a symbolic marital ceremony at the Lincoln Center in New York (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)