born in portland, in 1953, weems didn't pick up a camera in a serious way until she was 20 years old.know it will play for me, but i knew something was really profound about it and i immediately loved it, you know. >> sreenivasan: what did youç love? >> photography is a wonderful way of entering into the world and getting outside of one'sself. it forces you to look at theç world in a different kind of way and asks you to look not at that but at this. and it's in that looking that you discover really the multiplicity of a single thing and the depth of a certain thing. not only of a certain thing, but your relationship to that thing and your relationship, therefore, with yourself is deepened. >> brown: one of her best series is from here i sawç what happened and i cried, in which weems took 19th century photograph, many slaves, tinted them a deep red and putç text across them. a negroid type, an anthropological debate and her daughter and giving the subjects a voice in their own right. >> i'm deeply fascinated with history and have been for a long time. it's part of my dna trying to

middle east and north africa, that number was more like 74% that that brings me to the question of the weem place in the middle east. a, the palestinian territories, b, jordan wx c iran, d egypt. stay tuned and we'll tell you the answer. this book of the week is "stress test, reelection flexions on financial crisis." it is surprising he frank and well-written, all in all the most intelligent defense of the obama administration's handling of the crisis. and now for the last look. here at gps we love deep data dives. we also revel in the fact that america continues to be the melting pot that it has always been. so we were interested to see a pieces on slate.com this week analyzing the most common languages spoken in each state using u.s. census data. this first map is predictable. other than english, spanish is the most spoken language in all u.s. states. but watch what happens when you remove spanish from the equation. there is the melting pot. in michigan arabic clocks in as the third most commonly spoken language, in minnesota it's hmong, texas, oklahoma and washington, it's a philippine n