>> yeah. >> brown: do you think that's changing ankall? >> i thi it is.i feel like the school is a testament to that, thatg mindset of makings by hand and craftsmanship is starting to take america by storm. >> brown: as we close the gate on this story: that's quite a hope. for the pbs nehour, i'm jeffrey brown in charleston, south rolina. >> woodruff: on the newshour online right now, hurricane laura rapidly grew from a icategory 1 to a categorya day. how do storms build such intensity so fast? and what role might climate change play in increasing the likelihood of that happening? we explore that on our web site, pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for toght. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs safe, and we'll see you soon.tay >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> you can do the things you like to do with a wireless plan designed for you. with talk, text and data. conser cellular. learn more at consumercellular.tv >> when the world gets complicated, a lot grough your mi

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come on down. >> brown: and if not in person, then visit through song. a red bird morning in aberdeen ♪ >> woodruff: beautiful voice. and we go from finding common ground, to staking dividing lines. please join us next tuesday night for special live coverage of the first presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden. >> taking the stage. it's time for those two candidates to meat. >> if you can't beat him in a debate you've got a big problem. >> who has what it takes. e're in a bat fortunately the soul of the nation. >> how will the candidates handle their first one on one? a "pbs newshour" vote 2020 election special. the first presidential debate. stepped 29th at 9:00, 8:00 central on pbs. >> woodruff: join us tuesday night for our live coverage. that's the "newshour" for and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. have a great weekend. thank you, please stay safe, and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> when the world gets complicated, a lot goes through your mind. with fidelity wealth manage

jeffrey brown has our report.s story was produced in partnership with our pbs colleagues at maine public. >> brown: move-in y at colby college, with some 2,000 students arriving from across the country and abroad to attend scthis private liberal artol in central maine. >> everyone's very excited to return. i think we've all been cooped up, maybe getting a little tired of our families. >> brown: after being sent home last march because of the pandemic, students were especially eager to return. >> it's really good to be back on campus and, you know, things feeling somewhat normal. >> brown: "normal"-- except for the masks and the covid tests they underwent. and several weeks later, on the glorious fall day we visited, with students tossing a frisbee, eating and talking together outdoors, it was almost "normal," except for the extraordinary situation here, shaping up as a kind of test case for coping with covid.do >> there's nt that i want to bring students back, because i know what we do in terms teaching and learni

jeffrey brown has our look for our arts and culture series, "canvas." >> brown: appropriate fothe agesocial media, the cultural stardom of ruth bader ginsburg began in 2013 with a tumblr account: "the notorious r.b.g," a take-off on the well- known rapper "the notorious b.i.g." n.y.u. law student shanahen- knuzhnik, inspired by a powerful ginsburg dissent defending voting rights. >> justice ginsburg's words were sort of this beacon of hopand a call to action to those of us who cared about those issues. >> brown: knuzhnik would co- author a "notorious r.b.g." book, and get to know the justice herself, who even presided at knuzhnik's marriage. the power of the cultural symbol, she says, spoke especially to young people. >> particularly young women don't have that many examples of the sort of status that she had achieved, but more so who had experienced discrimination herself and then turned around and actually fought that discrimination. i so i think tergenerational aspect of the notorious r.b.g. phenomenon, somethinat i alf.ys was extremely proud o >> brown: once unleashed, the legend

governor brown: thank you, dick. to look up the santiam at the fire lines, to meet with first responders, and law national guards men and women and thank them for their incredibly heroic efforts. bring any press along in that particular tour. i did bring the senate president, peter courtney, along with me. i assume he will share his perspectives and his stories as well. dick, we plan , o tour the mckenzie river canyon area today. unfortunately, the conditions were not safe. going there. did not go there today. ook, i think it's really important that press have an accurate sense of what's ground.g on the the press has been critically important for us in terms of to ing our messaging out oregonians about evacuation regardinge situations the fire. we'll continue to bring the on, as it is safe to do so. dick: thank you. harles: last question is lashea. ahead. you.a: thank [indiscernible] 13 new fires downed sed by powerlines. why wasn't there coordination or the utility companies to shut off power before the windstorm? g

t brown: here we are and midst of an election.u know, it's a mome i wonder when you look at all this through the lors of labor hiand where we are with labor and unions. what's your political analysis? what do you see? >> one of the big reasons donald trump won in 2016 was that he won wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania all by ker. and i explain in my book tt if union membership in those three states hadn't declined by so mu in the previous decade. he very likely would have lost all three states and thus the presidency. you know, a lot of union members suppord trump. trump promised them change. he said he had to turn things around.th k a lot of union members i've been speaking to have kind of been disappointed that, you know, wages still haven't gone up very much, inme inequality has continued to get worse. e pandemic has not been handled very well. unemployment has gone through the roof. so i think people are really a lot of people in wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, minnesota, you know, other states, you know, unions are re

i'm dara brown. here's what's happening.tributes pour in for the late justice ruth bader ginsburg the political debate over her successor is getting started. on sunday joe biden called on the senate to wait until after the election to consider a replacement. president trump said he will name his nominee in days. >>> and history at the emmy awards. "schitt's creek" swept the comedy category. the show won best comedy series and awards for its stars, catherine o'hara, eugene levy, and his son daniel. now back to "dateline." >>> it was early evening. thermometer dropping in the gathering dark when michiel oakes came to talk to us partway through his trial for murder. he came with a message about himself. which he delivered more or less in the following manner. over and over again. >> i'm a single dad. i cook three meals a day for my kids. i bring them to dance. i bring them to school. this has been my life. >> reporter: and in case we didn't get it. >> the lens i look at the world through is really that of a single dad. i'm a nu

weeed to take a moment to think about it. >> brown: brown university visiting professor and historian renee ater has studied and written on the role of monuments and "memorialization." >> that's important that he is acknowledged. but we also know we have limited space this city for monument building and we need to think about who gets to be in those spaces as we proceed. the monumental sculpture certainly plays into that idea of the great man sculpture. as we start to think about future memorialization efforts, we need to actually more broadly include communities in that discussion about who gets to be, in public spho gets to be represented, and the types of artists that are going to do the >> brown: i asked david eisenhower about these broader and urgent questions of history and memory. iz my philosophy is, is that memoation is something that revea us at any given me. and so i think memorialization is a process that is renewed. memorial, i think you are investing or gambling in a sense sson the future, that the e that a memorial conveys will have a kind of timeless quality to i >> br

brown coal is a big employer here and they keep the jobs. to communism collapsed in 989 and germany reunited towns like shrem big did it tough as the christina hints here explains. i had just bought. into a further thought rushed home taught aided hurt kept as i am in the shite and foreshortened intel hours or. as a slight us or does not dare i need gunson under an industry class and mostly only textile industry back apartments and. brown coal is profitable because it isn't deep on the ground it's dug up near the surface taken to nearby power plants and burned to boil water to make electricity. but it's even dirtier than black culture. the problem isn't the steam you see pouring out of cooling towers it's the carbon emissions you can't send. in the cosmopolitan capital bloom environmentalists have been demanding politicians shouted down. we need to end fossil fuels right now we don't have any time to waste anymore we can't wait another 18 years so we're taking direct action to call for the immediate phase out of culture made. daniel hoffecke

mayor brown?e is an everyday reality from the issues and the environment in general, emissions, smog, i have seen the evolution of air quality of the last 20 years and now we are dealing with fires and historic proportions. i believe that the preservation of life supersedes the the main priorities are our health, the pandemic, economic issues are the issues of everyday people, it is urgent to be concerned about climate, but if you are concerned about whether or not they will have shelter, or for their children, whether they will be able to be safe and have a good quality of life is paramount at this time. and that is it for world questions: us election 2020. thank you to our esteemed panel, our questioners who has helped us cover some of the really big issues that are facing the country in this election and of course to all of you for watching. from across america and around the world, from me katty kay in washington, goodbye. hello. the week ahead promises to some pretty dramatic changes in our w

>> brown: yes. >> where did ts come from? this doesn't fit in. this isn't what's happening. like, thank you. thank you. >> brown: that's what you wanted to hear. >> because our job is not to be what's happening. our job is to be as honest as we can about this noise that we're making. ♪ ♪ >> brown: it allulminated in 1976 in san francisco with one of rock's most renownedan concerts, "thes last waltz," made into a film by martin scorsese, and featuring a long list of stars-- eric clapton, joni mitchell,va neil youngn morrison, and many others, capped off by dylan. it was music that changed time. but daniel roher, the director of "once were brothers," and alo,so from toront is just 26, and he says the music has lived on for many in his generation.ou >> i say that the cool kids know the band. >> brown: the cool kids know the band? >> yes.si i mean, the s timeless. well, when i came to this project, these guys were mythic, you watched "the lltz,"dary. and they're just the coolest, most incredible guys. you know, they just occupy this mythic space in rock ' a roll histor cultural

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he and john brown were very close friends. however, when it came time to shooting and fighting for real physically, frederick douglass was just up the man to do that. he said as much. that doesn't make them any less of a a hero or less of a man. it just provided some fodder for us. >> i understand. he wanted to talk about this project, "the good lord bird' and this is what he said. he said. ethan, -- [inaudible] he said we had coffee and he gave a copy of "the good lord bird'd and he said quote i thik you should play frederick douglass if you're into it by want to make sure you love the story and that's it, you know, a particular take on frederick make surehat to you're okay with it. the next few days it was so funny, i don't know, brilliant, getting to work with ethan was amazing and young joshua who plays onion was a fantastic young actor. a couple of things there. joshua, this is a big, big role for you. what is something you learned that you think you will take with you for the rest of your career? >> i think really being

as jeffrey brown reports, the four-acre memorial comes tofr tion after 20 years, internal controversy over its desi, and at a time when memorials generally are being re-examined. the story is part of our arts and culture coverage, canvas. >> brown: it's a sprawng tribute to the man known as" ike": republican president from 1953 to 1961, and five-star general who planned and executed the world war ii invasion of normandy. the memorial is situated in a prime but crowded spot within sight of the nation's capitol, across the street from the smithsonian institution's air and space museum and national seum of the american indian, directly in front of the u.s. department of education.e lution chosen to set it off from that 1961 box-style building:a steel tapestry,n representing astract view of the normandy cliffs, especially vivid by night. it's based on a drawing by the man who designed the memorial: famed aritect frank gehry. >> brown: gehry, now 91, is renoed for buildings such as the guggenheim museum in bilbao, spain, walt disney hall los angeles, the new world center in miami beach. me

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james brown legacy for me is the james brown academy of music peoples. these students are awesome.ents needed to continue learning how to play instruments. he said you put an instrument in a child's hand it changed their life. i've seen that literally happen with these students that i work with. i never in a million years thought that i'd be doing it. but what i have seen is the exact thing that my dad told me i would see. and these children have embraced his music. they learned music theory, music composition. they learn a lot of his songs. they learn a lot of artist music, but it's all clean because that was very important to my dad. >>> from the georgia home of the godfather of soul we now travel further south where the new orleans jazz museum features this form of american music. ♪ >> people say that jazz is the only original art form. i'm not sure it's the only original one but it certainly is the most famous and most world renowned change the world kind of music. ♪ >> it's something the country can be proud of. it's something that has defined america not only for americans bu

and joining by skype from cambridge massachusetts is meiko brown macon. and a constitutional law professor at harvard university. i would like to start with you, you met justice ginsburg a number of times, what kind of impact that you have on you? >> i did have the pleasure of meeting justice ginsburg, a couple of times. she was inspiring. she was strong, she was quite an intellect, and i will give you an example of a meeting with her, where she demonstrated both of those, i had the pleasure of being at a conference with her at the federal judicial center, many years ago. she gave an address in which she talked about the way in which her personal experience of loss, had shaped her career. she talked about losing her mother, when she was in high school, about to graduate. and she said something that stuck with me, many years. she said, i wasn't going to sit in the corner and cry. in other words, that loss, actually had the effect of inspiring her, to pursue her personal dreams. and of course to be an advocate for equity for all people. >> thank you for tha

i think of brown v. the board of education, many did not follow and the court was unable to enforce immediately brown v. the board of education. how do we get people, what is that third way, howdo to get people to do the things the court says our c constitutional? or to not do things that it says arel unconstitutional? especially when those decisions might be unpopular, when brown was decided it was unpopular. how do we make that third way work? >> yes, that's a brown. as i say, i finished college about five orn. six years after brown. i went to law school two years after that, and you know how much integration there wasmu in the south? not much. brown w was 1954. you know what happened in 1955? 1955? nothing. i mean next to t nothing. lucy try to go to university of alabama and sheas was kicked out the 1956, nothing. in 1950s in 1950s have little rock and that's when a judge in little rock said you better integrate the school, central high school, and nine grade students, black, decided they would bebe

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brown: thank you, mr. chair. i want to first recognize not my the hard work of colleague from ohio, representative marcia fudge, but commitment tolong improving the quality of education for all of our this country s regardless of your background and experience, regardless of that's what , and the strng streng act -- the diversity act does. i want to thank you, representative fudge, for your leadership, and giving me an present a portion of this en bloc amendment, the two amendments that i sponsored of the en e part bloc. so i rise, of course, in support strength in diversity act, and my amendment to this legislation, which will ensure reforms continue to have an impact well into the future. we still have work to do to persistent racial and ocioeconomic disparities that are in our schools. according to the 2016 g.a.o. all high-poverty schools were served in majority lack and hispanic student populations. the covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the racial and socioeconomic isolation throughout our country and our sys

how did you come up with john brown's voice? say,: this job, i like to it took me 50 years of life to be ready to play this part. haved every thing i learned about performance in some aspect, it was required for this role. i called james up. i drove up to lake placid to visit john brown's grave. if you will stand in somebody's shoes, you have to take off your hat. not, i don't know if it makes sense to you, there can be a sense of inadequacy if you try to step and pretend to be a great human being. so you have to kind of honor it. i went there and i was looking around and i kept saying what does this man sound like? i looked at his tombstone and iu can read his writing and went to the part of mcbride's book where he talked about what he sounded like and i called james like and asked what did he sound like? i could not make it come out of my voice. he said i think i got that wrong. i am paraphrasing. i think maybe he has a deeper town. when he gave me permission to do that, i heard my grandfather. my grandfather was a civil right

i mean, go back to brown. as i say, i finished college about five or six years after brown. i went to law school a few years after that. and you know how much integration there was in the south? not much. brown was 1954. you know what happened in 1955? nothing. i mean, next to nothing. lucy tried to go to the university of alabama and she was kicked out. 1956, nothing. in 1957 was little rock. and that's when a judge down in little rock said, you better integrate this school, central high school, and nine brave students, black, decided they would be the ones who went into little rock high school. white. and the governor sat in front of that door and he said, no. and he had the police. and he said, you have a judge's order but i have the state police. and there was a standoff and there was a lot of disagreement. and finally the president of the united states, dwight eisenhower, and i think this was a great thing that he did, dwight eisenhower called in the 101st ashe -- air born, the heroes of normandy, the heroes of the battle of the bulge, and they flew to little rock and 1

headed their father in brown headed by their monkey. it is estimated that there's less than $500.00 individuals in the wild. in the part of. people really important for them. i don't i can't. i. could wind up going out by not going. to be and i want to right now when you close them i. mean they're going you know our. command 0. 0. 000-000-0000 extension 000 number. there are still a lot of things that we need to discover that we need to find out iced tea did density of these tiny malls in a certain area and how to inform the conservation of the species. i discovered that brown had spidermonkey side by toll for dispersion of certain tree species and it took on forest and to see generally nation of these trees ease improved by passing through the gods of. this means that they are declared to nurse of to use. and as a number of the species well they feel if we conserve them and work on serving the habit that the political will of this forest for diversionary depends on this by them won't. get very excited when they see him because every ti

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: how dyou picture a pandemic?brief but spectacular focuses on a photographer documenting funeral homes and health care workers. his images captured in march appeared in the "new york times" magazine. he spoke with us about his work in new york city in late may. >> we were photographing in the emergency department at queen's hospital, where two f.d.n.y.ra dics had just wheeled in a man who was going into cardiac arrest from vid-19. the hospital at the time was completely overwhelmed with patients at that moment, it was all handh on deck to sav man's life. and we watched for 10 minupas as these twmedics flanked by hospit workers, nurses and doctors all like, gave this man all of possibly could in order to bring him back. they broughtim back after working tirelessly. casually, at the end of it, everyone just got back to work. it was just men and women operating at the highest level of professionalism and heroism. most of the work that i've done for covid-19 has been done with the "new york times" magazine. we really

so i feel like my brown act rights and i love the brown act, as you know, i feel like in those cases my brown act rights are kind of violated because there was not enough time given for me to even call it because of the delay. it changes all the time which is weird. sfgov gov needs to get rid of the lower third. shrink it down so we can see who is in the meeting. i appreciate most of the things about supervisors have done and and i don't support -- >> thank you for your comments. operations, is there another caller, please. > >> caller: hello. can you hear me? >> yes. >> caller: yes, this is gilbert crystal of district 8. i'm calling about transit issues and transit lack of transit. muni still has not restored service to many muni lines during the pandemic that they cut. it's time to restore services and lines that were cut during the pandemic. muni needs to open the subway and open the f line. muni is in a black hole of financial black hole and fiscal irresponsibility muni is mismanaged and corrupt. we need to fix muni so they can get around the city. poor people are kicked to the c

there aren't many politicians who are still relevant at 82, but jerry brown is one of them.rnor, former presidential candidate and former mayor of oakland, among the many roles and positions he has held, is still an active voice, especially when it comes to global warming. our own raj mathai chatted with brown from his ranch south of sacramento and began asking when the last time was that our country was so divided. >> i don't think we have ever been in this kind of turmoil. during the vietnam war there were massive demonstrations. there were shootings. it was bad. but somehow this feels like the republic itself is being torn apart by those on the right, those on the -- on the side of the left, and there doesn't seem to be a strong center holding this all together. i would say in my lifetime this is unprecedented. >> reporter: what's your biggest fear if donald trump gets reelected in november? >> take america wihat america w war by miscalculation or lack of clarity and prudence at the national level. my longer term fear is that the climate will accelerate in its warming, an

brown: that is a great question. fortunate that we have 300 75 national guardsmen and women who have been pre-trained to fight fires. those units will be deploying today, tomorrow and sunday. we will be training, thanks to the help of ourederal delegation, an additional 300 women.l guardsmen and we have requested assistance from our federal partners. we are hoping for active duty military, trained battalions from the department of defense,e trin firefighting. and hoping that some other states will be able to prove additional national guard resources. but as you know, this is a challenge facing the entirwest coast, and our firefighters are spread very in. we are working hard to get the resources as quickly as possible. judy: that is why i was askin if you think you will be able to get everything you need. governor, there are as our reporter was telling us, as wel these rumors and conspiracy theories going around about the cause of theires, leading some people not to heed evacuation orders. obhow much of a m is that an

brown is critical of san francisco's public health officials. he says, they have failed to communicate and work with the faith community about allowing indoor worship. >> we see the gyms open, theaters in some counties open, nail shops open and say well, why? >> reporter: a point that is raised by the department of justice in a letter sent to san francisco mayor london breed. he calls for ending the current ban on more than one person inside a place of worship. the letter says, in part there is no scientific or legal justification for permitting a 20,000 square foot synagogue to admit only one worshiper while allowing a tattoo parlor to accommodate as many patrons as it can fit, so long as they are six feet apart. >> one person inside of church dupree is an insult, not right and sold. an the archbishop with the catholic archdiocese of san francisco tells me he's grateful for with the justice department's intervention. >> there is a lot of outrage and people are fed up. >> reporter: city attorney dennis herrera said in a written statement, there

people be part of the clinical trials when the disproportionate impact on black and brown people hasare, the lack thereof of the health care, the jobs that make them more predisposed to covid but not necessarily the genetic makeup or their -- or anything with their dna? >> and that's part of the reason why we need to have them participate to prove that's the case. the second part of that which i think is also critical is making sure that there is trust built up and you would see in the op-ed we make the argument we should involve community leaders as well as trusted medical professionals who have been in those communities in order to make sure that they can trust that vaccine so at howard university hospital we are planning to participate in one of the trials and on the science side and on the recruitment side so you have to have a holistic approach. >> now we are looking at 37 days away to election day and listen to president trump who laid out for black voters during a speech here in atlanta why he is the one black americans particularly should vote for. >> we call it the platinum

♪ >> james brown's legacy for me is the james brown academy of music, jam.as students needed to continue learning how to play. you put an instrument in a child's hand, you change their life. ♪ i have seen that literally happened with the students i work with. never in a million years thought hi -- i never in a million years thought i would be doing it, but what i have seen is the exact thing my dad told me. these children have embraced his music. they have learned music theory, composition. they learned a lot of artists' music. they cling to that. announcer 1: from the georgia home of the godfather of soul, we now travel further southward where the new orleans jazz museum features this unique form of music. ♪ >> people say jazz is the only original american artform. i am not sure if it is the only, but it is the most famous and world-renowned, changed the world kind of music. >> ♪ i'm leaving here today going back home to stay i'm walking to new orleans ♪ >> something the country and be proud of, something that has defined america not only for americans, but

james brown.ept it cool. and other artists came in after him and said, be careful. you may be a target now. because now the government knows that if you can stop a riot, you can start one too. several times in our history, you have situations where the status quo looks at rock 'n' roll and says, it's making our kids do bad things. it's promoting elicit sexual activity, it's advocating drug use. it's not really music. it should be stopped. that happens with elvis, that happens with the beatles, that happens with twisted sister, that happened with frank zappa and nwa. they have the understanding that this music has the power to create tremendous unrest or to calm people and therefore they got to get involved and control it. this is one of my favorite displays in the exhibit. these are the original costume worn by the village people. and, you know, really when you think about the village people, they represent a time when our society is starting to change how they view homosexuality and the gay cultu

brown is critical of san francisco's public health officials. he says they have failed to communicate and work with the faith community, allowing indoor worship. >> sees now shops open and they say well, why? >> reporter: a point that is raised by the department of justice in a letter sent to san francisco mayor london breed. it calls for ending the current ban on more than one person in set a place of worship. the letter says in part, there is no scientific or legal justification for permitting a 20,000 square foot and about two admit only one worshiper while allowing a tattoo parlor to accommodate as many patrons as it can fit, so long as they are six feet apart. >> one person inside a church, that's an insult. >> reporter: the archbishop with the catholic archdiocese of san francisco tells me he's grateful for the justice department's intervention. last sunday hundreds of catholics marched in protest, calling on the city to revise covid-19 restrictions on places of worship . >> there is a lot of outrage. people are fed up. because they see we

we have the brown versus board of education in 1954, then brown versus board of education ii. and then the till lynching. you have rosa parks being arrested on december 1st of 1955. that was a thursday. and then the following monday, on december 5th, the montgomery bus boycott begins. that's a little bit of context for you to put it in a visual form. so, we're going to use the readings today to consider the busboy cot. we'll continue that conversation in our next lecture as well. and certainly if people have questions. so, i want to focus on montgomery because more than any of the other origin events that we've talked about, montgomery is most often cited as the beginning of the civil rights movement within the popular narrative. and i find the popular narrative of the boycott itself within this larger narrative to be somewhat problematic. and i want to talk -- i want to dig into that myth, or that story of the montgomery bus boycott. in doing that, i think an effective way of doing that is looking to a central figure in that myth, rosa parks, right? i want to look at what i c