jeffrey brown has more for our arts and culture series, canvas. polluted streams, bare trees and riverbanks, an abandoned coal mine in vintondale, pennsylvania. an ugly wasteland, right? landscape architect julie bargmann saw more. julie: it's not just a lump, you know, of toxic stuff. it's a story. i find that's where i go. i want to tell the past in order to pject something for the future. jeffrey: and so, over three years, beginning in 1995, bargmann and her team set about to regenerate the site, creating a safe and welcoming wetlands and park. while keeping reminders of its past, including a giant mound of refuse from the mine, turned into an overlook. it was, she says -- julie: the project that opened it all up. i had the suspicion that this was the work i wanted to do. jeffrey: bargmann has strong views and a sense of humor. she named her professional studio “d.i.r.t.”, for “dump it right there”. and she happily embraces one nickname, the “queen of slag,” the leftover by-product from the mining of metals. julie: if i could make a crown out o

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jeffrey brown talked with questlove recent, for our arts and culture series, "canvas." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> brownans? some all-time greats. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the music? lifting you to the sky. the setting? the harlem cultural festival, in 1969. all of it-- stunning and amazing to see, and in 2021. but even more mind-blowing? how close it came to being lost forever. the moment you saw what happened here, you knew you were on to something? this was something big? >> absolutely, yeah. and even to be here and to see this structure? like, i definitely remember this shot. >> brown: the renowned musician ahmir thompson, better known as questlove, made his directorial debut this year with the acclaimed documentary "summer of soul." but when we met recently in marcus garvey park, the site of the original concerts 52 years ago-- when it was still called mount morris park-- he told me he hesitated to take on the project when first shown the archival footage. >> i was just like, no, this is too much responsibility. like, this is not just putting a concert together. this is correcting history. and i didn't know if

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> woodruff: what a great story.stline of louisiana may not see federal funding for recovery after hurricane ida, because some belong to tribes not recognized by the u.s. government as eligible for federal assistance. more on the reason why, on www.pbs.org/newshour. and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> the rules of business are being reinvented, with a more flexible workforce, by embracing innovation, by looking not only at current opportunities, but ahead to future ones. >> people who know, know b.d.o. >> for 25 years, consumer cellular's goal has been to provide wireless service that helps people communicate and connect. we offer a variety of no-contract plans, and our u.s.-based customer service team can help find one that fits you. to learn more, visit www.consumercellular.tv. >> fidelity wealth m

jeffrey brown visits with bill t. for our arts and culture series, "canvas." >> brown: one man-- bill t. jones-- roams an enormous space, telling a story of himself and his country. >> brutality. police. the horrors. unspeakable. >> brown: he's joined by a small group of dancers, who enact and move through that story. and then, by some 90 others, members of the larger community, filling the space, moving as a crowd. >> i know. >> brown: adding their own stories as individuals. it's called "deep blue sea." >> the piece is about the pursuit of the "we." >> brown: pursuit of the we? >> it's thrown around all the time. "we the people." "we shall overcome." politicians use it all the time, this "we." who is this "we" that you're talking about, considering how fractious our country is and how it has been from the beginning? >> brown: jones has used dance to ask big questions of himself and others since the 1980s, when he and his partner in life and dance, arnie zane, first formed a company. even as their fame grew, their wo

.>>> i am jeffrey brown in harlem, new york. can masce -- can judy: can masce >>> has been the sheriff for 20 years. he has seen funding for mental health plummet. more and more mentally ill patients go behind bars. he gives a brief and spectacular take on making county jails safer and tomorrow. this was film prior to the pandemic. >>> if you have a loved one suffering from mental illness. it would only take a split second and bad decision to enter into the county jail. a couple years ago we had someone who turned 18 act up in a school. he was arrested for battery and brought to this facility. he was severely autistic. he did not have parents. he was in a foster home. it took an enormous effort by all partners to get him removed from our jail into an inpatient facility. here is a kid who should never have been in our facility. never.>>> on the sheriff of st. lucie county. i have been here 20 years. over the past two decades we have seen funding diminish to mental health inpatient and outpatient facilities and programs. people wh

jeffrey brown visits with bill jones for the arts and culture series, canvas. >> one man, bill joneshimself and his country. >> brutality, unspeakable horrors. >> he is joined by a small group of dancers who enact and move through that story. then, by some 90 other members of the larger community, filling the space and moving as a crowd. >> to be black is to be beautiful. >> it is called deep blue sea. >> pursuit of the week. it is thrown around all the time. we the people shall overcome. politicians use it all the time. who is we, considering how fractured the country is and has been, from the beginning. >> reporter: jones has asked the questions as he and his partner arnie first formed a company. even as fame grew, their world was devastated by aids, which would take the life of sane and so many others, in 1988. jones would go on to create 150 dances. the waters directly addressed the loss of his loved ones. it is now the subject of a new documentary, called can you bring it. it is directed by roslyn black, a former director . he has continued to take on subjects of american life a

jeffrey clark now faces a subpoena by the house committee investigating the january 6 attack on the capitol. and joining me now is msnbc daily columnist and editor hayes brownficial jeffrey clark pushed trump's coup from the inside. we need to know why." welcome, my friend. let's get into this. walk us through who jeffrey clark is and why he's so crucial to the january 6 committee investigation. >> so jeffrey clark is not the kind of person you would have expected to be backing trump's coup at the start of things. he was a republican lawyer. he was at doj for a while, two years running their environmental division. just your typical run of the mill governmental bureaucratic lawyer. he became the head of the civil division of doj last september. and by the time the election had passed, especially by december, he had become someone who was convinced that there were weird irregularities and fraud in the 2020 presidential election. all the things that trump was pushing. and as a lawyer inside doj, he was primed to be able to push out this idea that the state legislatures could overturn biden's win and invalidate the electors, for the electoral college that they

commonwealth club of california "miami herald" investigative journalist julie k brown discussed her coverage of the jeffrey epstein story. >> jeffrey epstein had whole ecosystem around him of people that helped him. he was a guy who didn't even try and trade ties on shoelaces. he like somebody do everything for him. so these people that were part of his life or the system is built, and told everyone from the butler who answered the door where these girls were to the chef in the kitchen who made them snacks, to the women of course it of the young women who arranged his schedule, the housekeepers who cleaned up after he did these incidents. the pilots who flew the jets where he had two private planes, the driver, he had drivers that picked up the girls. so it was a whole ecosystem around him. >> to watch the rest of this program visit booktv.org and use the search box to look for julie k. brown for the title of her book perversion of justice. >> weekends on c-span2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday american history tv documents america's stories and on sundays booktv brings you the latest in nonficti