jeffrey brown traveled to oakland california, for the latest from our newshour bookshelf. >> brown: dimondrk in oakland california: tommy orange spent hours here as a kid-- and now visits with his wife and son. he grew up down the street, the child of a white mother and eetive american father. >> sometimes youlike you belong right in the skin that you have, and sometimes you feen beke an alieall the different spaces ieen. >> brown: orange's acclaimed debut, "there there,o" is novel oices-- a dozen characters exploring what it means to be nativemerican in an urban setting, not on a reservation. >> i wanted have the range of experiences for these native charactersso different ages in different contexts and different struggles and backgrounds, various different proximities to their native identity.me truggle with it and some don't. so i wanted to have a range of what it means to be native right now. >> brown: for 36-year-old orange, an enrolled member of the cheyenne and arapaho tribes, his native identity came mostly through visits tfather's childhood home in oklahoma. back in oakland, ident

jeffrey brown has more. >> brown: the trolley, the cute sock-puppets, the cardigan sweater-- millions loved mister rogers and his neighborhood, others found it all a bit, well, o "nice." filmmaker morgan neville watched as a kid and, looking again as an adult, found something worth exploring, celebting today. >> when i started digging into f him i jut like this was a voice i don't hear in our culture anymore.t it's a voice teds a place at the table and it's a voice that speaks up for a lot of things that nobody else is eaking out for. it's arownup voice that's empathetic and that's looking out for our own cultural long- term well-being. >> brown: neville, who won an oscar for his documentary, "20 feet from stardom," s now made "won't you be my neighbor," a new, fuller look at the life and work of fred rogers. >> a television program for children made its inauspicious debut on wqed in pittsburgh. its host? fred rogers. >> brown: "mr. rogers neighborhood" had its national debut on public television in68 original episodes and re-runs would air until 2001. the show quickly hit a chord wit

. >> woodruff: finally tonight, hip-hop goes high art, and gets the full museum treatmen jeffrey brown takes us on a trip to oakland, california for an exhibition that captur the local, and now international, spirit of the music, and much more. >> brown: sounds, colors, fashions of the street: it's where hip-hop has always lived. but now, it's also in a museum. rene de guzman is curator of the exhibition, "respect: hip-hop style and wisdom," at the oakland museum of california. >> it's a culture that's been around, approaching 50 years, and it's established a centrality not only in american culture but world culture. you can't think of any culture, o gh or low or in-between, that isrvasive. s brown: and therefore it belo a museum. se yeah, well, it belongs in a museum bect's reached this status where it's a mature,mp sophisticated x culture, if you think about it. >> brown: the exhibition traces decades of history: artifacts, tike handbills for block p in the bronx in the late '70s, and a handwritten essay by a young tupac shakur, cotoaring black american revolutionaries. we see hip-ho

pbs newshour correspondent jeffrey brown recently caught up wi young to learn the many ways he is engaged with the world. >> lately i've been thinking a lot about bringing the sons and daughters of harlem home. >> brown: as writer, editor and archivist, kevin young is a poet actively engaged with the world. author of books of poetry, criticism and anthologies, he's also director of harlem's schomburg center for research in black culture, part of the new york public library. >> and langston hughes's ashes are buried under the center. >> brown: so he's ried here. >> yes, yes, he's interred here. and his spirit enlivens the place. >> brown: in his new collection, outitled "brown," draws heavily on his boyhood in topeka, kansas, tying it in large d small ways to the wider worl >> i started to realize that there were these themes emerging, of history, and public history, and private hisry and how they intertwine. and that's really when the book became a book it in and of itself. you know, it like became one long poem in a certain way. >> brown: historical figurese enter ems, including flesh an

jeffrey brown shares the story of one woman who has embraced both >> brown: among many other things,l painter is a proud resident of the ironbound neighborhood of newark, new jersey, which, on the day we visited, was celebrating its dirse heritage in the annu portugal day festival. >> the ironbound is the old and the people in here are either portuguese or portugueser americanretending to be portuguese-americans. >> brown: a block away, in an historic building that once housed a toy factory, ter now lives and works as an artist, one who is both new-- as in, she only recently started this career, and, by her own telling, old-- as in her age. there's an anecdote early on with a young 18-year-old looking at you the first day and saying, >> "how old are you?" okay. >> brown: and your reaction was? >> brown: the story isin a new book titled "old in art school: a memoir of starting over."ho nell irvin painter, a longtime princeton university professor best known for her work in 19th and 20th ceisury southernry became, at age 64, nell painter, a painr, one working in a variety of forms and

tyson spoke with jeffrey brown about this revelation last year: >> iertainly never thought s was telling the truth at trial. she's been in hiding almost for all these 60-somyears. it was her husband who did the killing and her brother-in-law. it's not clear what role she had inhat. >> brangham: in a letter to congress, the department of justice said it was reopeningin thstigation into till's murder "based on the discovery of new information," but it didn't specify what that information was, or who might be the subject of their inquiry. both of the admitted killers have since died. joining me now is democraticna r doug jones of alabama. in his earlier life, jones successfully prosecuted another famous decades-old civil rights case. he convicted two members of the ku kan for the murder of four young black girls in the 1963 bombing at the treet baptist church in birmingham, alabama. to the, welco "newshour". i wonder if you could give me your reaction to the news of th reopen the inquiry into emmett till's case. >> it's pretty exciting. that's a decades-old case that needs as thorough look

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jeffrey brown looks at whas behind the drop and the bigger questions facebook is facing beyond the one-dayplunge. >> brown: the company's stock dropped bybout 19% today, ping out, for now anyway, nearly $120 billion in market value. the reaction from investors followed a quarterly report late yesterday, and it came despite the fa increase in revenue of more $13 biion last quarter. in a call with investors yesterday, c.e.o. and founderg mark zuckerbnounced profits won't be as high going forward, because the company is making moves to shore up privacy and filter out misinformation and hate speech. here's how he put it. >> looking ahead, we willnt ue to invest heavily in security and privacy because we have a responsibility to keep people safe. but as i've said on past calls,e we're ing so much in security that it will significantly impact our profitability. we're starting to see that this quarter. >> brown: for e record, we should say the newshour works with facebook on projects. and we take a deeper l the company now with casey newton, seor editor at "the verge. he joins me from san francis

robert listenbee the first assistant attorney, and jeffrey brown from the school of law, and jeffrey brown ceo and founder of brown superstores and founder of up solutions, and also mark holder of koch industries. thank you, all of you. i want to go around the panel, and ask you, bob, to ask you for some opening thoughts of framing for you the topic of how best to reform criminal justice beyond mass incarceration. >> thank you very much. it is a pleasure and honor be here to talk about what i consider the most important top the uk s s of our times which id to a dress the issues of mass incar ration, and also the issue of mass supervision, and parole. and larry crabner was elected because of a platform of ending mass incar ration. it is wrong, because we have placed too many people in the county and state prisons, and place ing too many people in jail, and the process destroying families and destroying communities, and recognizing that it is costing enormous sums of money to keep p people in jail. if you are looking on the financial side in philadelphia we know that in the county the j

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. ht>> woodruff: finally ton author sebastian junger has spent a number of years reporting on the men and women in various branches of the united states military.nd on this indece day, he reflects on american heroes in tonight's in my humble opinion. >> several years ago i spent much of a deployment with a platoon of combat infantry at a remote outpost callerestrepo. it was named after the medic, p.f.c. juan sebastian restrepo, who was born in colombia, emigrated to america as a child, and died fighting at the bottom of a hill in afghanistan. there was no running water at restrepo, no cooked food, no communication with the outside world and absolutely no privacy. mostly, therwas just a lot of con at. the plats in several hundred firefights that year, and everyone out there was almost killed. and yet watched perfectly ordinary people risk their lives to keep others safe. no one was more anportant than yone else and race, religion,po and litics had absolutely no importance at restpo. ever

speakers include jeffrey brown, ceo of a regional grocery store chain that started hiring former inmates. way, as we were opening the stores, a lot of my customers and community leaders gave me a really good education on the criminal justice system, and helped me to understand why it should matter today. not that it didn't matter to me before, but i don't think i was informed as much as i should be, considering the work i did. god she said was that, bless you for opening stores no one else will, we really appreciate that, but we are never going to be the greatest customers, because so many of us have been incarcerated. once you have been incarcerated, no one will hire you. you are serving people that are always going to live on government and title months -- government entitlements. to,e are not sure who to go but we think you should fix this problem. admit course, i have to that a number of my executives were little concerned about the fact that i agreed. we were thinking about how to approach that, and we figured jump in head first is the only way to do it. we hired half a dozen return

jeffrey brown visited john coltrane's recording studio, where the mysterbegan. recently-discovered music gives coltrane-- more than 50 years after his death-- his highest-ever debut on worldwide chartsnd in sales. >> 11382, 11383, original, take one. ♪ ♪ >> brown: a famed recording studio. one of the greatest jazz ensembles ever. a beautiful blast back to music made on a single day in marc 1963. ♪ ♪ here at the van gelder studio in englewood cliffs, new jersey, a group of critics, family members, and music executives gathered recently to hear a lost recording by saxophonist john coltrane and other members of his classic quartet: pianist mccoy tyner, bassist jimmy garrison and drummer elvin jones. among them, ravi coltrane, john's sonhimself a highly-regarded sax player. >> it's like discovering a buried treasure. i hear him basically with one foot in the past and one foot sort of aiming toward his future. >> brown: thushe title of a new release of seven tunes, which ravi helped produce: "both directions at once: the lost album." >> the record contains a lot of m

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in oakland, california. >> woodruff: and on the newshour line right now: many americans are not getting screened for cancer, putting them at risk of missing out on earlier medical intervention, th's according to a recent federal report. you can read more about those findings on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. tonight on "washington week," on pbs, robert costa reports on today's robust economic report, and why some critics say the growth is not sustainable. plus, the latest on mr. trump's former attorney and confidante, michael cohen. that's later tonight, on "washington week." and on a special pbs newshour weekend saturday, puerto rico in crisis. after suffering economic turmoil and a weather disaster, what'sxt or puerto ricans on the island and here on the mainland? and that's the newshou tonight. we will be back, right here, on monday, with our "now read this" book club pick for wugust. i'm judruff. have a great weekend. thanyou and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin? >> advi

the film prenieres on hbo t and as jeffrey brown tells us, the funny maa s public perss often quite isfferent from the private life. >> thi quick impression of a spanish fly. fa brown: madcap, frenetic and lightnin... onstage, robin williams was seemingly impossible to contain, or categorize. >> you ever looked at a plpatyus? god must be stoned. god's up there going, "lets take a beaver and lets put on a duck's bill, okay?" (laughter) >> brown: the n documentary," robin williams: come inside my mind," tries tpin down the man, through those who knew him. >> in my head my first sight of him is that he could fly, because of the energy it was like observing an experiment. ia brown: and through watching wi himself: his childhood in a well-off family first in detroit and then san francisco. >> nanoo nanoo. an brown: his burst to fame as lien in the tv comedy "mork d d mindy." >> grning vietnam! >> brown: hiwork as an actor such films as "good morning vietnam, "dead poets society," g"d "good will hunti" in 1998, for which he won an oscar for best supporting actor. >> if you speak about my wife ever

mandela seed five years as esident and died in 2013 at the age of 9 jeffrey brown has more on a new abok that offers insight into mandela's remark story.nd >> nelson a told much of his own story in the 1994 memoir "long walk tore fedom." a follow-up volume published last year. now "the prison letters of nelson mandela." 255 letters written over the more 27 years he spent as al politiisoner from 1962 to 1990. my colague charlayne hunter-gault was there the day mandela was released and covered him in the epic making events in south africa in the years thatow fo and joins me now. first of all, nice to see you again. >>to be here again. you know, what emerges from these letters thst we perh didn't know, this man who was both private and public? >> actually,eff, i think that we get into the interior man, some of the paithat he went through, some of the principles that he continued to sta,nd for no matter the terrible conditions under which hend the fellow prisoners lived, and then the love of his family, starting with winnie and his children, and the larger family. so it's things we never hea

the film premieres on hbo tonight and as jeffrey brown tells us, the funny man's public persona was often quite different om the private life. >> this is a quick impreion of a spanish fly. >> brown: madcap, frenetic and lightning fast... onstage, robin williams was seemingly impossible to contain, or categorize. pa you ever looked at a us? god must be stoned. god's up there going, "lets take a beaver and lets put on a duck's bill, okay?" (laughter)ro >>: the new documentary," robin williams: come inside my mind," tries to pin down the man, through those who knew him. c in my head my first sight of him is that ld fly, because of the energy it was like observing an eeriment. >> brown: and through watching williams himself: his childhood in a well-off family first in detroit and then san francisco. >> nanoo nanoo >> brown: his burst to fame as an alien in the comedy "mork and mindy." >> good morning vietnam! >> brown: his work as an actor in such films as "good morning vietnam, "dead poets society," and "good will hunting" in 1998, for which he won an oscar for best supporting actor. >> if y

and as jeffrey brown reports, two abrupt resignations er the last day have only escalated tensions. >> brown: british prime minister theresa may faced rising doubts, and derisive laughter, in parliament after losing two key ministers. >> i want to pay tribute to my righhonourable friends. (laughter) >> brown: david davis resigned as chief brexit gotiator late sunday.an d today, foreign secretary boris johnson followed suit. in his resignation letter, johnson said "the brexit dream is dying."br he waritain is instead headed "for a semi-brexit" and the "status of a colony." davis said may is giving "too much away, too easily," to the e.u. on trade and regulations. >> we do not agree about the best way of delivering our c sharmitment to honor the result of the referendum. >> brown: addressing the house of commons, the prime minister defended plans, hammered out last friday, to maintain the same regulations for goods and agriculture as the rest of the e.u. me some have suggested that under this arran the u.k. would not be able to do trade deals. ey are wrong. when we have left the e.u., t

jeffrey brown talks withleuthor min jiand announces our pick for august. >> brown: history failed us, ut no matter, the opening line of the acclaimvel patch patch, a page pachinko. it was our book club pick this month. i know many red along with us and a number have sent in questions for author min jin lee, whom i'm delighted to welcome now. hello, and i'm glad you could be part of the book club. >> thanks for having me. >> brown: address the first line, history has failed us. tell those who didn't read the book or are less aware of it. what were you after? >> that's my thesis statement, and i was really trying to argue thatas think history hailed ordinary people around the world, because we're not, document're not recorded, we don't understand what's happened to us because all of us, historically, because so many people didn't leave primary ndocuments. it that historians are bad people, they're not elitists, it's just they can't. so if you're illiterate, for example, people don't know anything about you, unless people are recording you n real time. >> brown: so you ended up telling a

. >> yang: now, jeffrey brown has the latest entry on the ewshour bookshelf." >> martha nussbaum teachesed at the law school and the dependent of philosophy. after numerous books examinpg aspects ofitical and everyday life, the latest is "the monarchy of fear" it was written to better understand the election of 2016 one insight, the political is always emotional. that's something you havefo written aboua long time. explain your terms. what does emotional mean? what does fear mean? >> well, okay. emions are not just joalgts of electricity but they involve thoughts abniout what's hap to us, what's good and bad. and fear connects us to the bad. it's the thought that theris terrible, bad stuff out there and we're not entirely in controof warding it off. fear is something philosophies have talked about ever since the greeks. it's always been thought to be a e rrible problem for democracy. >> brown: youonnecting it to now. the subtitle: a ph looks at our political crisis. that's the next term i want you to define "political crisis." what do you see? >> i see people are being stampeded by their e

jeffrey brown, president and ceo of brown superstores and founder of uplift solutions. welcome all of you -- [applause] i want to start by going around the panel and we'll start with you bob and ask you just for some opening thoughts kind of frame for us your view of this topic how best to reform american criminal justice beyond mass incarceration. >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure and hon or nor to be here to talk about what i consider one of the most important topickings of our time that is addressing the issue of mass incarceration, and also addressing the issue of mass supervision parole and probation. larry wases lengted on a platform that focused on ending mass incarceration, ending because it's wrong. ending because we've placed too many people in jail in the county jail answer state prison without any direct impact upon community safety. placing too many people in jail in the process destroying families and destroying communities. also, recognizing that it cost enormous sums of money to keep people in jail. if you look on financial side we know that -- in

brown, milo ventimiglia and jeffrey wright. >> the dispute between comedian sasha baron cohen and sarah palin is taking another turn. palin says she was duped by the comedian. you can hear exclusively from her tomorrow on "good morning america" at 7:00 a.m. >>> the oakland a's are celebrating a birthday and they want you to take part. >> how the team is embracing its history and encouraging everyone to join in. that's next. >>> first we want to thank the sonoma county parks for this picture of sheep removing vegetation and providing fire prevention work. the sheep, hard at work obviously, will be in santa rosa for the next six weeks. you can share your pictures with us with the #abc7now. >> you may see them on air or online. (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) ♪ ♪ (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) >>> coming up at 6:00, it's the first day on the job for san francisco's new mayor, and we're finding out what she'll focus on first. >>> new developments in the mysterious dis

jeffrey brown, president and ceo of brown's superstore and the founder of uplift solutions. the senior vice president and general counsel of coke industries. welcome all of you. [ applause ] >> i want to start by going around the panel. we go start with you. frame for us your view of the topic of how to get beyond mass incarcerations.>> it is a pleasure and honor to be here to talk about what i consider one of the most important topics of her time addressing the issue of mass incarcerations and the issue of mass supervision parole and supervision. larry was elected on a plat from that focused on ending mass incarcerations because it is wrong and because we placed too many people in jail, and the county jails and state prisons without direct impact upon the community safety. placing too many people and destroying families and destroying communities. also, recognizing that a cost enormous amount of money to keep them in jail. on the financial side, in philadelphia in the county jail, it cost $42,000 a year to place someone in the jail and to keep them there. we know that those