she sat down recently with the newshour's jeffrey brown. >> brown: in the hit series," mad men", peggy, the secretary turned ad executive played by elisabeth moss, is a character from the 1960's who somehow still speaks to our own time. >> i always try to be honest. >> brown: she's hugely flawed, very insecure, also very smart. develops a great sense of humor. really good at her job. horrible at her personal life. >> that's it? >> what do you want me to say? >> that you give a damn. >> she's-- there's a lot of us in her, you know? and i think that people identify with that. >> brown: people seem to be identifying a lot with elisabeth moss these days: the 32-year-old actress is on a major career role. >> thank you. >> brown: and now she's on broadway, playing another smart and strong, flawed and insecure woman: heidi holland in the first broadway revival of wendy wasserstein's 1989 pulitzer prize winning play, "the heidi chronicles". the play takes us through various episodes in the life of one woman, from the 1960s through the 'i80s, as she makes her way through the political and socia

jeffrey brown has our profile. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> brown: it's a powerful song-- "waterboy", first made famous bytta. ♪ ♪ ♪ now becoming a signature for a powerful new voice of today-- belonging to rhiannon giddens. at 38, giddens has just released her first solo album, "tomorrow is my turn." and though now stepping out into the spotlight, here recently at the big ears music festival in knoxville, tennessee, she told me she hasn't lost sight of what's important to her. >> i'm just so passionate about the history, i'm always reading books about history, and you know, i feel like my mission is to perform. you know, of course that's what i was here to do, but that extra thing is to bring attention to music that doesn't necessarily get the light of day a lot. >> brown: the album, "tomorrow is my turn" is named for a song made famous by nina simone, and like simone, giddens grew up in north carolina and trained as a classical musician. ♪ it's all become so complicated ♪ her debut celebrates women who influence her: some famous like dolly parton and patsy cline, others, like sister rosetta tharpe and l

jeffrey brown is back with the story, the last from his recent trip to the west african country of mali, and part of his ongoing series, culture at risk. ♪ ♪ >> brown: the song is titled "so long: the past." the singer on the edge of the river in mali is known as the golden voice of africa. ♪ ♪ one of the most famous musicians on the continent, a giant on the world music scene but it's easy to see what sets him apart here. he's an albino one who began life as a pariah but refused to be kept down. when you were young, you were outcast. >> yes. >> brown: but now you're perhaps the most famous person in mali. >> yes. if i was black, maybe i couldn't have this opportunity to be popular in the world. >> brown: he was born with the hereditary condition that depiefs a person's skin, hair and eyes of pigmentation. it left her nearly blind. he was ostracized by his village, even his own family as is common in africa. >> if your mother is blond your father is blond, you can be white. >> brown: with few opportunities, he turned to what he calls a god-given talent, music. >> music for me is my life

jeffrey brown recently traveled to knoxville, tennessee, to have a listen. >> brown: the big ears festivalt of strange sounds. ♪ ♪ a mix of traditional musical styles-- ♪ ♪ --and decidedly new ones. >> the idea of big ears is to invite people in. it's to share the experience. i i want it to be seductive, not frightening. ♪ >> brown: for more than a decade "big ears" founder ashley capps has been best known for another festival, bonnaroo, a massive gathering in the blazing june heat of middle tennessee that features major pop and rock stars of the moment. started in 2009, "big ears" is altogether different: smaller and more personal, eclectic in its tastes. aiming to show how different genres influence one another rather than exist in separate musical boxes. a big part of its charm is that it unfolds not in new york or san francisco, but in a walkable area of downtown knoxville, tennessee. you get this reputation for it's weird music, right? you're putting these things together, avant-garde, does that scare people off? >> i'm not sure what avant-garde means in 2015. >> brown: you don't like

arts correspondent jeffrey brown has profiled several of this year's nominees, including "disgraced,"hich is up for best play. it examines questions about identity and islam in america after 9/11. jeff spoke with playwright, ayad akhtar, about what he was hoping to convey to audiences. >> there was a character who was speaking to me with this kind of relentless passion, amir, the lead character in the play, who has this very particular point of view on islam. he's muslim birth, of birth and origin, but has sort of strongly moved away from it and is very critical of islam. but i came to understand that what the play was really trying to get at was the way in which we secretly continue to hold on to our tribal identities, our identities of birth, of education, despite our, despite getting more enlightened. >> brown: there's almost a suggestion that, whatever we do, our education, or our jobs, or our marriages, we can't, we never get past this kind of tribal allegiances. >> it-- i didn't seem to be able to pull the play away from that conclusion. i tried. but these characters continued t

jeffrey brown visits the new whitney museum in new york. >> brown: like all buildings, it begins as a construction site. >> everything needs to be ready, so there will be a moment when... >> brown: and when we visited the new whitney museum recently, work was still going on all around. architect elisabetta trezzani managed the project with world- renowned museum builder renzo piano. on a large outdoor terrace, she showed us how she and her colleagues thought of their mission here. >> to create places that are connected with the neighborhood and all the city. >> brown: so the city is the canvas in a way. >> yes exactly. >> brown: and what a neighborhood this is, or was. trezzani told me of her first time here. >> when we came there was only meat packing on this street, there was working 24 hours. and there was blood on the street. >> brown: there was blood on the streets? >> yes. >> brown: this is new york's meatpacking district, long a busy and messy and once- dangerous area where few residents or tourists ventured. now, it's a bustling neighborhood in a new way-- of restaurants and h

jeffrey brown recently talked to author jacob silverman at "busboys and poets," a restaurant and bookstore chain in and around washington. >> brown: welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. >> brown: the case you're making, and it's a strong case, we don't know or we don't seem to care enough about what we're giving away in our digital lives. >> right. well, the same systems that make it so easy to communicate with one another and live these lives where we're essentially all public figures make it easy the spy on us to, collect personal information, whether you're companies or governments or other bad actors, and i think that a lot of people don't really realize how much is being collected on each and every one of us, that there are big data burgers on hundreds of millions of people. >> brown: there's been a lot of emphasis on government surveillance. here's what we don't know as much about corporate surveillance. >> corporations have led the way the turn the internet into a remarkable surveillance machine. ever since the introduction of the cookie about 15 years ago, we've sort of shifted

at the smithsonian museum of african art in washington, i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour. >> woodruffe newshour online, an organization working in afghanistan is trying to convert fields of poppies-- used in the illegal production of opium-- into fields of the purple flower that produces the exotic, and costly, spice saffron. the boston-based company works with farmers to get them to cultivate the delicacy. read how they're doing it, and find a recipe for rice pudding with saffron, on our home page. all that and more is on our web site, pbs.org/newshour. >> ifill: tune in later this evening. charlie rose talks with hillary clinton campaign chairman john podesta on the 2016 elections and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, the u.n. high commissioner for refugees on why the u.s. should open its doors to more syrians displaced by war. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you on-line, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us here at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the

jeffrey brown has our look. >> master cromwell your reputation is bad. you don't defend yourself? >> brown: it's on television. >> your majesty can form your own opinions. >> sreenivasan: on broadway. >> sreenivasan: and in print, hilary mantel and her historic characters are seemingly everywhere. >> the ever expanding henry viii >> brown: literally. >> with his six wives, no one else has a ruler with six wives, who cuts the heads off two of them. so you're off to a flying start there. >> sreenivasan: mantel's novels "wolf hall" and its sequel, "bring up the bodies", have been an international sensation, with more than four million books sold in 37 languages. she won the prestigious man booker prize twice, a first for a woman. it's a familiar story in many ways: the momentous reign in the 1500's of the tudor king henry played on television by damien lewis, basking in power but needing a male heir, cutting loose one wife in favor of the young anne boleyn, only to cut her head off when no son is produced. but mantel has told the story in a new way, giving the lead role to thomas cro

and in our signature segment, the newshour's jeffrey brown sits down with elisabeth moss to talk about portrayal of peggy on mad men and her latest role in the heidi chronicles on broadway. luckily right now there seems to be a little bit of a resurgence of feminism. next

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jeffrey brown explains. >> brown: call it the case of the missing cases.es back to 2013 when 200 bottles of pappy van winkle's were stolen from a locked and secure distillery in frankfort, kentucky. by some estimates, the bottles were probably worth about $25,000 in retail. yesterday, authorities said they found a bourbon crime ring and inside job connected with the heist. nine people were indicted for taking more than $100,000 of whiskey, including 18 barrels overall. franklin county sheriff pat melton has been pursuing this case and joins me now from lousiville. sheriff pat melton, an inside job, how do you steal so much bourbon for so long? >> of course, toby was a singular employee of buffalo trace distillery and the other suspect a senior employee of wild turkey distillery, both having access to where the bourbon is stored and both worked on loading docks and transporting moving the bourbon. so it was actually -- you know, you trust your employees and they had the opportunity to do it and i think it was a continued pattern of behavior. that's why we i

jeffrey brown looks at what sets them apart, and how they've adapted to a new era. >> brown: last night university of connecticut women's basketball team claiming their third title in a row, and tenth overall for their coach geno auriemma. that matched him with the game's most famous coach, john wooden. on monday night, duke university won its fifth title for coach mike krzyewski. in the men's game, no other coach has won as many-- other than, again, john wooden. we're joined now by two who know the game well. danielle donehew, executive director of the women's basketball coaches assocation and a former collegiate player. and, john feinstein, author of several books about college basketball and columnist for the "washington post." he joins us from augusta, georgia for the masters golf tournament. let's start with you, danielle donehew. ten championships for coach geno auriemma. what has been his secret? >> i'll tell you, jeff, geno constantly pursues perfection and he's a master at knowing how to motivate his players. i think geno is one of the greatest masterminds, also in terms of his

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: it was a somber ceremony on a cloudy, gray day in armenia's capitalerevan. government officials and foreign dignitaries marked 100 years since the first mass killings by ottoman turks in 1915, during world war one. an eternal flame burned today at the heart of a memorial complex, surrounded by flowers honoring the estimated 1.5 million victims. the leaders of russia and france took part, with president francois hollande rejecting those who refuse to call it "genocide." >> ( translated ): france fights against nihilism, revisionism the wiping out of evidence, because to ignore or pretend to ignore what happened in history is to repeat the massacres. >> brown: in 1915, armenia was part of the ottoman empire, and was later absorbed into the soviet union. its border with turkey, to the west, remains sealed. the turkish government has always denied that what happened a century ago amounted to genocide. just yesterday, president recep tayyip erdogan again rejected the term. >> i've always said that we are ready to open our archives at every meeting i attend

jeffrey brown has a look at spieth's accomplishment. >> brown: jordan spieth led the tournament fromnish, the first time that's happened in 39 years, as he beat back challenges from some of the game's biggest names. along the way, he set several records, for lowest score after 36 holes, and after 54 holes, and for making the most birdies at one masters. after four days, he got to don the traditional green jacket of the master's winner, having tied the 72-hole record of tiger woods. spieth spoke about the moment, immediately afterwards. to put on this jacket is incredible. this feels great. i plan on not taking it off for quite a while. probably sleep in it for the next few nights. but it was a test. there is a reason i have a hairline like this right now and that's because it's stressful what we do on a daily basis and to be able to come to the world's greatest and to come out on top puts a lot of confidence in me -- >> brown: some perspective >> brown: some perspective now from john feinstein, a columnist for the "washington post" and the author of several books about golf, includin

recently, he sat down with jeffrey brown at "busboys and poets," a restaurant and bookstore chain in shington, d.c. area. >> hi, jeffery. glad to be here. >> brown: this novel i've read is based on real events. what pulled you in? what has to happen for you to say, i'm going to write this story? >> it's a story about american violence, particularly american gun violence, the lone shooter. so like everybody else in the country, i'm disturbed by why this happens, where it's happening. so i found a news store out of northern california in which a lone shooter who happened to be schizophrenic and supplied with automatic weapons by a generous society killed two people in the woods. >> brown: so there's the story that you have and you build up that, but then there's a quote at the beginning by d.h. lawrence, the essential american soul is hard, isolat stoic and a killer. it has never melted. the american soul, you're also somehow exploring that? >> i needed someplace to build the book. i have a ready-made story of the killer. i'm changing the names, but using the locale and the police repor

jeffrey brown has a look behind the work. >> brown: it grew into a major seven-part series documenting from many point of view victims, law enforcement and others a huge problem in south carolina and other states. domestic violence and abuse of women. among the violence, it was the most deadly state for domestic violence. glenn smith is one of the lead reporters who was part of the team. he joins me now. congratulations to you, first. i gather this all really began when members of your teem saw some of these statistics and they jumped out at you. tell us what happened. >> well, it was in the fall of 2013, the violence policy center in washington, d.c. they put out an annual ranking of the most dangerous states for women based on the rate of women killed by men. south carolina came out at the top of the list. they put out a press release. it didn't seem to attract much attention at all, and we started to wonder why is that so? why haven't we paid more attention this? looking bag over a 15-year period, we have led the list three times and been in the top 10 every year that the list had b

jeffrey brown is back with that. >> he's got an open three and it rattles home!t's march madness, when basketball rules and the n.c.a.a. revels in the attention. indeed, wisconsin's win on saturday, over unbeaten kentucky, was the most-watched semi-final in 22 years. >> look at this-- right back with it! >> brown: duke dominated michigan state in the other semi-final and will face wisconsin tonight. and on the women's side, the university of connecticut is aiming to continue its dynasty going for a third straight championship tomorrow against notre dame. but behind the backdrop of tournament time, there is serious pressure on a number of fronts, including whether and how schools should compensate student athletes. last year, former u.c.l.a. basketball star ed o'bannon won a lawsuit that calls for paying players at least $5,000 a year for rights to their names and images. the n.c.a.a. is appealing. >> everything has changed about the game, the rules have changed, everything has changed except for how players are compensated. >> brown: then, there's academic fraud.

jeffrey brown explores some of the very cosmic questions around this story. >> brown: that's worth saying: we can't see it, but we can, apparently, map it. what's called "dark matter" is, in fact, everywhere, and it's believed to play a crucial role in forming and holding together galaxies with its gravitational pull. in findings announced monday, researchers used a "dark energy camera" and a large telescope in northern chile to create this color-coded map, showing a small piece of the visible sky. orange and red areas represent denser concentrations of dark matter. blue areas are less dense. sean carroll joins me to tell us about it. he's a cosmologist and theoretical physicist at the "california institute of technology." thanks so much for joining us and helping us here. can we start with a basic question: what is dark mattered? >> sure. dark matter is some kind of particle, just like ordinary matter. you andry made of atoms. there's some other kind of particle, not anything you find in at toms not anything we've ever found here on earth it's dark, it's invisible but it's most of the ma

also pamela brown, our senior league analyst, jeffrey tuben and the former nypd chief department philipew york philip banks. there's a protest in union square boston and a huge one in baltimore. this is a sensitive moment for law enforcement. you want to show some presence but not go overboard, right? >> it's a delicate balance, wolf. the unfortunate thing about this is that it seems like a few months ago, there was a series of protests in multiple cities. unfortunately, we could see that in the shortcoming future. somebody thooz figure this out pretty soon. i'm so happy to hear the governor talk about the protests thus far turned peacefully. certainly, it's something we can't rest in laurels. it's potential to be a powder keg again. it needs to be settled country wide. >> everybody needs to be sensitive to that. tom, you are in baltimore for us. what does it feel like? what is the sense you are getting about the situation? we don't want it to be a powder keg. >> i think it is a powder keg, even though we don't want it to be. it could escalate the coming days especially friday when ther

pamela brown, thanks very much. >>> let's bring in jeffrey toobin right now, our senior legal analysteness of a justice department investigation. do you think it will be real? because this could go on and on and on. >> remember there are three investigations now going on or planned. you have the police investigation, which is going to make its report to the prosecuting attorney next week. you have an independent investigation that has been promised by the mayor and now you have the justice department investigation. i do think that in light of all those investigations we will learn a great deal more than we know now. but i think it is important to recognize how little we know now about why freddie gray was arrested. was were the circumstances of his arrest and, most importantly, how did he sustain these terrible injuries? none of those answers are clear. but i do think that with those three investigations we will know the answers. >> hopefully we will. stand by i want to bring don lemon in. don, i want it step away from what is going on in baltimore. as you know you're in new york. the