jeffrey brown has the story for our arts and culture series "canvas." ♪ >> one of the first casualtiesy tv show cops. it had faced criticism in the pa for normalizing heavy-handed behavior by t police especially against african-americans. but for more than 30 years, it remained on the air untilast month, when the paramount network says itg was removine show from its schedule. soon after, the even more popular series "live pd," one of the highest rated shows on basic cable, m the same fate. at moment when policing is the subject of protests and demands for change, hollywood is beg forced to re-examine i long-running love affair with cop shows and mh more. npr tv critic -- >> there are a lot of discussions now about what kind of stories hollywood is telling, who gets to tell themand how that can change. make cop shows less propagandistic for law enforcement and try to make them more realistic. try to increase the diversity and shows the don't have diversity. >> t re-examination of recent weeks has at times become quite personal. >> i realize i can't not say i'm horrified and i'm sorry an

the bo is published today and jeffrey brown has this conversation for our ongoing arts and culture seriessha: three weeks gone, my mother came to me in a dream, her body whole again but for on. perfect wo jeffrey: in the poem "articulation," natasha trethewey writes of the violent death of her mother and how that forever shaped her life and work. natasha how then could i not : answer her life with mine, she who saved me with hers? and how could i not, bathed in the light of her wound, find m calling ther jeffrey: natasha trethewey was born to a black mother, gwendolyn turnbough, and white father, eric truth away. it was 1966 in mississippi mixed race marriages had only recent been legalized, but jim crow customs continued. hin 197 parents divorced. her father, who became a poet english professor, died 2014. the young natasha spent her teenage years in atlanta, where her mother met and married another man,oel grimmette, who would beat, abuse, a in 1985, murder her. natasha was 19 at the time. now at 54, she has written "memorial drive: a daughter's memoir." natasha: i am trying to pay homa

my colleagues amna nawaz and jeffrey brown are here with a preview.cerpt from the conversation with legend bruce springsteen. >> a great singer has to learn how to inhab a song. you may not be able to hit all the notes. that's ok. you may not ve the clearest tone. you ma range.ve the greatest but if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate. join me now.ff and amna hello to both of you. jeff you sat down with the one and only nbruce spgsteen. but it's just a sampling of mano ersations remarkable conversations you've had with these artists that have made this the special portalt it is. >> yeah, that's right, judy. that was o course a very memorable one. just to sit with him and here him talk about both the power of the music but also the vulnerability he feels as an individual human being. he talked later in thatab intervieout bouts of depression, i remember being so moved by it. it'snot just the stars and weebrities like spring teen, traveled around the country. all over the world and i'm just ved by the artists and the writers and the store radi

jeffrey brown talked to four views on it.ans on their varied it's part of our ongs and culture series, "canvas." >> reporter: a hot afternoon in washington, d.c. >> i am reminded every single day that i am less than a white person whether i want to admit it or not. >> reporter: a heated exchange over a statue of abraham lincoln, standing above a kneeling, newly freed african american man. last month, protesters gathered to demand the statue be taken down. the national park service, whice ov the site, erected aro fence as ptection.d 20-year-rvard university student glenn foster helped organize the call to take down the statue. he sees one man shirtless, with brok shackles, at the feet o another man in a position of power. >> how are you going to represent ack people looking free when you have them kneeling before a white man? young children about our history? and what does that teach them moving forward in terms of achieving their liberation and freedom on their own terms? a lot of older peopleve that the statue is fine because of the context of where they've learned why it ce to be, i

and it did. >> brownfor the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: now, to a very different storyl, or c.b.d., products are everywre right now, and the growing trend isn't only fashionable, it's also big business. it can be derived from both hemp and cannabis, with t hemp extraction used to produce fabrics, oils and food. from the cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university, marcella baietto before the pandemic, who hasho jumped at this growing business opportunity, but some within his own tribe are saying, "not so fast." >> reporter: in the heart of the navajo nation, not far from thee four corners-- arizona, new mexico, colorado and utah meet-- millions of hemp plants are growing, many of them ready to be harvested. it's theirst time this kind of plant is being grown on such a massive scale on the navajo nation. hemp plants contain less than 3% of t.h.c., so they cannot get u high, but dineh benally says the crop provides his community with a natural health andne we product.s >> doing toject, i really got to know what our people are really made of, what type of ski

jeffrey brown has the story for canvasts and culture series, >> brown: one of the first casualties: thepopular reality tv show "cops". past for normalizing heavy- handed behavesr by the police, pecially against african americans. but for more than 30 years it remained on the air, untilast month when the paramountwaetwork said iremoving the show from its schedule. soon after, the even more popular a&e sees "live p.d.," one of the higst rated shows on basic cable, met the same fate at a ment when policing is the subject of protests and demands for change, hollywood is being forcedo re-examine its long- running love affair with cop shows and much more.tv np critic eric deggans:>> think there are a lot of discussions now about what kind of stories hollywood is tellg, who gets to tell them and how that can change. make cop shows less pragandistic for law enforcement and try to make them more realistic, try to increase the diversity in shows that don't have diversity. >> brown: the re-examination o quite personal, asnights become stars and star popular sitcoms have apologized or pulled episod

and in a recent survey of small jeffrey brown s our lo, part f our ongoing arts and culture series, "canvas." ♪ ♪se >> reporter: derrick jones, better known by his stageame," nice," calls it "club quarantine." ♪ ♪ a creative responsborn of necessity in march when covid-19 brought live music perfmances to a stop. >> i'm used to interacting with people and feeling energy fm people, i mean, you can drop are hocord and you can watch theow go crazy. well, how do you, you know, do that online? >> reporter: arominent hip hop producer, rapper, and d.j. who's used to playing live in clubsld around the wohe now performed from home, on instagramive, spinning records for hours, mixing in artists, watching the digital crowd swell, from a few hundred to more than 100,000 around the. wor >> oh, my god, michelle obama is michelle obama isere! >> reporter: including celebrities as eager as everyone else for a dance party.s what d do for you in terms of reaching an audience? because it's really a totallywa differenof interactingen with an audience, right? >> oh,totally. i just started reading the comme

out here that truly needed this experience to still feel >> reporter: for the pbs newshour, im jeffrey browne turn now to president trump's agenda.ed he retuo the podium this evening, reinstating covid updates. so, yamichnow yowere watching and listening.ni what is the news from what the president said? >> reporter: well the president held a brilfing that wasd with mixed messaging much he had a stark warni about the virus but also was sharie s misleading information. the information said that things are going to get far worsef e they get better which is a stark cake, because he has been down playing sayin it would disappear. but said that using notes. minutes later without notese said actually it will disappearh re's no evidence. the president did about face. issue of facial coughing..e >> we're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask. get a mask.sk whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, theyy will have an impact we needwe everythin can get. thing about patriotism, maybe ie ps. it help. now, we have experts that have said in the recentas

black jeffrey brown talks with author lauren wilkinson as part of our arts series "canvas." >> the west burkina faso in the 1980's and the real-life figure of a revolutionary leader, whomci the is eager to be rid of. a cold war espionage thriller," with a twist. its protagonist is a blackoman . author lauren wilkinson. >> the thing tha was after was creating a very complicated female charactern the spy genre. i felt that the spy genre is a really good opportunity to talk about double consciousness because it is so much about -- to me, being a spy is so much about being very aware of how other people perceive you. >> this idea of the double consciousness -- i was thinking aboutalph ellison with invisible manhe says i've been a spyor in this countrys long as i can remember. >> the main charactins grandfathesible man says something very similar to him that kind of confounds the protagonist for most of the book. i think this book was my own version of exploring that idea. with the grandfather was saying when he said that he was a spy's >> in this case, it is a spy but as a black man in his

here's jeffrey brown's race matters report. our ongoing arts and culture series, canvas. >> it began as a storable media callout, #publishing paid me. a request for authors to reveal the advances they'd been paid for their books. the result, based on responses from o hundre writers, a clear disparity between black and nonblac authors. the hashtag was starts build l.l. mckinney, a writer of fantasy novels for young adults. >> in advance has lot to do with how well the publisher thinks the story will do, and lot of it has to do with this idea of a universal story. a story is more universal then more people will have access to it and in highlights what publishing views as the default for the universal story. >> the callout struck a nerve and many prominent black authors weighed in, including novelist jasmine ward who wrote of how she fought and fought for a $100,000 advanc for her third novel, sing on berry sing, even after her second had won the national book award for fiction. by contrast, linda keysling, who isro white, of heav

jeffrey brown talks uthor lauren wilkinson, part of our series, "canvas." >> brown: the west africanon of burkina faso in the 1980s, and the real-life figure of revolutionary leader thomas sankara, whom the c.i.a. is eager to be rid of.it the setting of "american spy," a cold-war espionage thriller with a twist-- its protagonist is a black woman named marie mitchell.lk author lauren son: >> the thing that i was after was creating a very complicated female character in the spy genre. i felt that the spy genre is actually a reallgood opportunity to talk about double consciousness, because it is so much about, you know-- to me, being a spy, so much about being very, very aware of how other people perceive you. >> brangham: this idea of the double consciousness, that du bois wrote about, and others have--i mean, i was thinking abt ralph ellison, of course, with "invisible man." were you-- youmain character's father says, at one point, "i've been a spy in this country for as long as i can remember."ea >> i mean, that to me was a direct hat tip to ellison. you know, that the main character

jeffrey brown talks with author and poet claudia rankine aboutiz "cit: an american lyric," for our ongoing arts and culture series, canvas. >> brown: in 2014, american cities were convulsed in thehe aftermath ofeaths of michael brown and eric garner, eltwo of the killings thatd catalyze the ¡black lives matter' movement. that year, the book: "citizen: an americalyric" was published, with prose poems, monologues, and imagery capturing the moment but through a different lens: the inner lives and thoughts ofdi duals, the almost casual racism that permeates daily life for so many. r author claudkine. >> racism is institutional, we know, but institutions are made up of people. so whaare those thousand cuts that lead to the big institutional failes around racism? i asked people who i knew, friends, other colleagues tol just t moments where they were going along in their day. and suenly somebody said or did something that reduced them to their race. and so i collectedhese stories, rewrote them, got to the heart of what i was trying portray. >> brown: one of them that stuck with me, a man is narra

jeffrey brown exores that for our ongoing arts and culture black ask non-black authors. hashtag was staed by l.l. mckinney a writer of fantasy novels for youngdults. >> >> this advance has a lot to do with how we publher thinks the story will do. if the story is more universal, then more people will have access to it. publishing views as the default for the universal story. >> reporter: the callout struck a nerve, and many prominentac blk authors weighed in, including novelist jesmyn ward, who wrote of how she "fought ano foughta $100,000 advance for her third novel, "sing, unburied, sing," even after her second, "salvage the bones," for which she received about $20,000, had won the national book award for fiction. by contrast, lydia kiesling, who is white, wrote of receiving a $200,000 advance for her literary debut. n.k. jemisin, a black novelist who won the hugo award recognizing the best science fiction and fantasy writing three years in a row, said she received just $25,000 advances for each of the booker award-winning "broken earth" trilogy. >> you have an award-wi

one of thr institutions grappling with the change is the university of wn.consin, madi jeffrey brownke with its chancellor rebecca blank, a short time ago.>> eporter: rebecca blank, thank you for joining us. we heard from several students. i understand you have some 5,800 foreign sudents on cam there. what do you think is the impact on them? >> so this is an unwise and a policy. disruptive we have many students who are in the middle of programs, many o them doing research work in labs with faculty. having to tell them all to go home if they can't take in-person classes simply doesn't make any sense. now, we're trying to run a hybrid model of bh in-person and online classes this next semester, so i'm hoping many of them will be able to stay in madison.s but some stude can't get home. some students it's not safe for them to be in their home country. this arinfections are worse there an here in madison, you know, and some students if they stop out it's not good to get teback. >> rep the secretary at d.h.s. said if they're not a student or 100% oline they don't have a basis to be here. t

jeffrey epstein's alled co-conspirator appeared remotely in court and pleaded not guilty. stripped of her power and privilege in a brownson top, she sat mostly expressionless during the hearing. her lawyer said she was not jeffrey epstein and had been unfairly portrayed as a monster by media spin. prosecutors successfully argued she was anxtreme flight risk and skilled at living in hidingb they say sght her property in new hampshire under the alias janet marshall to conceal her identity. when fbi agent's rated the estate, she ignored orders and lock herself in another room. one of maxwell's accusers phoned in to the hearing and imploredd the judge to hr detained. she said maxwell was a sexual apredator who groom abused her and never show remorse. ghislaine xwell has been photographed alongside powerful people -- celebrities, future presidents,ormer ones, even yalty. >> i don't think this is going to be over this year. nadaep david rresents 12 epstein accusers. he says he has handed over evidence to prosecutors which could implicate others. somebody who is going to come under even more scrutiny now than he did before. t

it takes very long time, as you say, for brown to actually be implemented. as jeffrey pointed out, there is a decision where the court speaks to the issue of school desegregation. the problem is that, unless there is in the early years after brown -- if there is not these dramatic instances ever is assistance to the decision, and the school districts are able to proceed whatever they see fit. for a very long time. it is not until the late 1960s after the civil rights act that brown is implemented in any substantial way. >> our next video is thurgood marshall. he gave an interview to mike wallace on cbs, on president eisenhower and what he thought of the presidents decision. and his response rather, to the desegregation of schools. this was taped on april 16th, 1957. let's. watch >> >> i do not think that president eisenhower has done anywhere near what he could have done. >> i wonder whether it is too late. i don't think it's too late. the president should have sharply after the decisions, at least by now, had gotten on a television network or radio and spoken as the c

jeffrey epstein's alleged co—conspirator appeared remotely in court from a small white room and pleaded not guilty. stripped of her privilege in a browned back, she sat mostly expressionless during the 2—hour hearing. her lawyer said she was not jeffrey epstein and had been unfairly portrayed as a monster by endless media spin. but prosecutors argues she was an extreme flight risk and skilled at living and hiding. they say she bought her property in new hampshire under an alias, janet marshall. when agents raided the estate, she locked herself in another room. annie farmer, one of maxwell's accusers in the indictment, phoned into the remote hearing and implored the judge to hold her detained. she said maxwell was a sexual predator who groome and abused her and never showed remorse for her heinous crimes. i don't think it is something that will be over with this year. david boies represents 12 epstein accusers, including annie farmer. he says he has handed over evidence to prosecutors which could implicate others if introduced during the trial. prince andrew is clearly somebody who is going to come under even more scrutiny now than he

jeffrey epstein‘s alleged co—conspirator appeared remotely in court from a small white room, and pleaded not guilty. stripped of her privilege in a brownck, she sat mostly expressionless during the 2—hour hearing. from the moment the judge from the moment thejudge read out the decision, ghislaine maxwell hung her head, trying to absorb the news and at times, she used herfinger to wipe under her ride. her lawyers said she was not jeffrey epstein, and had been unfairly portrayed as a monster by endless media spin. but prosecutors successfully argued that she was an extreme flight risk and was skilled at living and hiding. they say she bought her property in new hampshire under the alias janet marshall to conceal her identity. when fbi agents raided the estate, she ignored orders and locked herself in another room. annie farmer, one of maxwell's accusers in the indictment, phoned into the remote hearing and implored the judge to hold her detained. she said maxwell was a sexual predator who groomed and abused her, and never showed remorse for her heinous crimes. i don't think it is something which is going to be over this year. david boies

bars.e partner of jeffrey epstein il and asked the court for a $5 million bail and home arrest in a luxury manhattan hotel. the elusive 58-year-old appeared via video conference in a brown prison uniform. >> maxwell looked completely different than the pictures we are used to seeing her on socialite pages she had much longer hair, darker, back in a ponytail >> reporter: though her defense team argued the covid pandemic made preparing for trial behind bars not realistic the judge rejected the proposal saying maxwell poses according to prosecutors maxwell was less than candid about her wealth in court documents investigators say she holds a swiss bank account worth more than $4 million and a british account worth more than $2 million prosecutors say she took deliberate steps to avoid law enforcement including wrapping her cell phone in tin foil. what they called a seemingly misguided effort to evade detection. her attorneys haveextra steps d the media not the police one accuser told the judge maxwell enjoyed drawing her victims in with perceived caring. annie farmer said she was 16 years old when sexually trafficked by maxwell and told the court by phone maxwell has lied

jeffrey epstein appearing via video conference. >> she wasn't in a glamorous dress and she didn't have her trademark short hair. instead, she had dark hair in a pony tail and in dark brown prison garb. >> reporter: maxwell pleaded not guilty to charges she enticed minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, asking to be released on $5 million bail and house arrest. maxwell's attorneys saying she hadn't had contact in more than a decade with epstein, who died by suicide in federal prison last year while awaiting sex trafficking charges. u.s. district judge alison nathan decided maxwell was a flight risk, saying, quote, crucially, the defendant not only has significant financial resources, but has demonstrated so far istation in hiding those resources and herself. in court documents, prosecutors say maxwell controls a swiss bank trust worth more than $4 million, and has accounts with a british bank worth more than 2 million. annie farmer says maxwell trafficked her for sex with epstein when she was 16 years old. by phone, she told the court maxwell has never shown any remorse for her heinous crimes or the devastating, lasting effects her actions caused. >> and i was t

jeffrey epstein's alleged co—conspirator appeared remotely in court from a small white room, and pleaded not guilty. stripped of her power and privilege in a brown back, she sat mostly expressionless during the more than 2—hour hearing. her lawyers said she was not jeffrey epstein, and had been unfairly portrayed as a monster by endless media spin. but prosecutors successfully argued that she was an extreme flight risk and was skilled at living and hiding. annie farmer, one of maxwell's accusers in the indictment, phoned into the remote hearing and implored the judge to hold her detained. she said maxwell was a sexual predator who groomed and abused her, and never showed remorse for her heinous crimes. i don't think this is something that is going to be over with this year. david boies represents 12 epstein accusers, including annie farmer. he says he's handed over evidence to prosecutors which could implicate others if introduced during the trial. prince andrew is clearly somebody who is going to come under even more scrutiny now than he did before. there's...too much evidence of their connection, both independent of epstein, and with epstein.

brown whose own reporting helped lead to the criminal indictment and arrest of epstein last year tweeted this about the daily mail exclusive if this is true it shows that hillary maxwell is using jeffrey epstein's playbook to corrupt the u.s. criminal justice system almost the same way abstaining did i hope someone is investigating because questions need to be asked. one question being asked could the daily mail story about maxwell be more fake news peddled by jacob all for publicity the sleazy and twisted world of glee maxwell and jeffrey epstein taking even more twists and turns for the news with rick sanchez john honey. joining us now is lionel of lionel media boy there's so much to one pack here the big news item in the last 4 hours has been the fact that she says she thinks she's going to be murdered or for years it she's convinced that epstein himself was murdered a man identifying himself or identifying as her husband has suddenly come out of nowhere a federal judge 2 yesterday was apparently attacked in her home and it turns out that she was the judge that was dealing with the bank that was tied to jeffrey epstein my god lionel where do you start where do we start with this. l

jeffrey epstein, accused of helping epstein's sex trafficking of underaged girls. so what is the relationship between ghislaine maxwell and president trump? cnn's pamela brown >> reporter: prmp's retuesident return to the briefing took an unexpected turn with his response to a question about ghislaine maxwell, arrested earlier this month on multiple charges related to sexual abuse of underage girls by her longtime companion, convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. she has pleaded not guilty. >> i haven't really been following it too much. i just wish her well, frankly. >> reporter: the warm wishes for maxwell are bringing renewed scrutiny to trump's relationship with her and epstein, who government officials say died by suicide in his jail cell last year after being charged with sex trafficking. some republican lawmakers reacted to trump's comments on twitter, saying, this is unacceptably obtuse for a woman accused of the most morally depraved of crimes. and, she is despicable and he needs to say that. >> i've met her numerous times over the years, especially since i lived in palm beach and and they lived in palm beach, but i wish her well, whatever it is.

jeffrey epstein‘s alleged co—conspirator appeared remotely in court from a small white room, and pleaded not guilty. stripped of her power and privilege in a brownstly expressionless during the more than 2—hour hearing. but the moment the judge read out the decision, ghislaine maxwell hung her head, visibly trying to absorb the news, and a few times, she used her finger to wipe under her eye. her lawyers said she was not jeffrey epstein, and had been unfairly portrayed as a monster by endless media spin. but prosecutors successfully argued that she was an extreme flight risk and was skilled at living in hiding. they say she bought her property in new hampshire under the alias ‘janet marshall‘ to conceal her identity. when fbi agents raided the estate, she ignored orders and locked herself in another room. annie farmer, one of maxwell's accusers in the indictment, phoned into the remote hearing and implored the judge to hold her detained. she said maxwell was a sexual predator who groomed and abused her, and never showed remorse for her heinous crimes. i don't think this is something that's going to be over with this year. david boies represents

jeffrey epstein's sex trafficking ring, but she also knew donald trump before he became president. now mr. trump is downplaying how well he knows her, yet he says he wishes her well. cnn's pamela brown has our report. >> reporter: president trump's return to the briefing room took an unexpected return with his response to a question about ghislaine maxwell, arrested earlier this month on multiple charges related to sexual abuse of underage girls by her long-time companion convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein. she has pleaded guilty. >> i haven't been following it too much. i just wish her well frankly. >> reporter: this is bringing renewed scrutiny to trump's relationship with maxwell and epstein. he died after being charged with sex trafficking. some republican lawmakers reacted on twitter saying this is unacceptably obtuse for a woman accused of the most morally depraved of crimes and she is despicable and he needs to say that. >> i've met her numerous times over the years, especially since i lived in palm beach and i guess they lived in palm beach, but i wish her well, whatever it is. >> reporter: trump says he's known epstein since the late '80s and pictures from the '90s show

brown in self-defense. >>> new overnight for you newly unsealed court documents are revealing new connections between billionaire sexual predator jeffreypstein and his confidant ghislaine maxwell. the two were still in contact in 2015 despite maxwell's lawyers arguing she had not talked to epstein for more than a decade. meanwhile in 2016 depositions from a victim is released. in itirginia jeffrey describes being recruited by she was a teenager and alleges she was told to have sex with numerous men including prince andrew. >>> well, if you are headed to chicago anytime soon, you should expect to self-quarantine once you get there. chicago's updated travel requirements go into effect today. travelers from 22 states including california are being told to self-quarantine once they fly into the windy city. >>> 5:26 for you this morning. nbc bay area responds to dozens of consumer complaints every day. >> that's right. chris chmura is looking at what the team has gotten done over the last bit of time. >> reporter: good morning. we are just past the midpoint of 2020 and so far this year we have helped viewers like you save or get back $482,7