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In the 1950s, Rai Weiss fell in love with a pianist, fell in love with his lover’s passion for music, and went on to invent the colossal instrument that captured the sound of spacetime, revolutionizing our understanding of the universe…

As word of this living marvel spreads throughout the village and beyond, people make pilgrimages from all over the world — to see her, to touch her, to ask the well-meaning, rude questions about whether her parents have insured her…

Thinking lately about what it means to have the right heart, which intimates the question of what it means to tend to one’s own heart rightly, I was reminded of a passage from what may be the loveliest, truest, most…

The Snail with the Right Heart, out on February 2, came alive thanks to the invaluable stewardship of my longtime friend, neighbor, and collaborator Claudia Zoe Bedrick — the one-woman powerhouse behind Brooklyn-based independent children’s publisher Enchanted Lion. Illustrations by…

For more conversation starters, visit QUEST‘s complete discussion guide. The film includes remarks from President Obama after a mass shooting in which he notes that no matter where the violence occurs, “these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods; these children are our…

Credits:                                                                                                         Director: Paula Eiselt; Producers: Paula Eiselt and Heidi Reinberg; Editors: Sunita Prasad and Rebecca Laks; Music: Laura Karpman; Executive Producer: Marco Williams; Executive Producer for ITVS: Sally Jo Fifer; Executive Producers for POV: Justine Nagan, Chris White Traditionally, all EMTs serving Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods come from…

Since 1994, POV Spark has driven new storytelling initiatives and interactive production for POV. The department has continually experimented with web-based documentaries, producing PBS’ first program website and the first Snapchat-native documentary. It has won major awards for its work,…

“Whose Streets?” looks beyond the media narrative to offer what Davis has called “black people seeing black people” – validation, encouragement and love in the face of a bitter legacy of injustice. “‘Whose Streets?’ illustrates a generational changing of the…

Where: Public Media Commons, 3653 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63108 Black Lives Matter is regarded as a modern civil rights movement. Do you see parallels between the 1960s civil rights movement and the current Black Lives Matter movement? What…