Brown four out of ten street lights dont work and it takes an hour on average for Detroit Police to respond to 911 calls. Hari sreenivasan looks at the motor citys battle amid bankruptcy. Detroiters are so used to bad news, and they are so used to things not really breaking our way, and theyre used to getting up the next morning and going, well, i cant stop, ive got to keep going, ive got to keep trying. Woodruff david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the weeks news. Brown and yes, those are goats in that graveyard. More than a hundred of them. Kwame holman tells us what theyre doing in this historic washington, d. C. , cemetery. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations.
Diagnosis. Cervical cancer, an especially aggressive form of the disease that despite radiation and surgery would have taken her life for months. That would have been where the story ended. Somewhere in the hospital Henrietta Lacks lived on, at least some of her did. Before henriettas death her doctors to a sample of her tissue to study inside a test tube. When they looked closely, they discovered something unusual for cells. Hers not only survived but thrived and multiplied in the live. In fact, henriettas cells were so resilient they were replicated again and again and again in laboratories all over the world and went on to become the most widely used cell for for human cellular and molecular biology. Those cells known as hela are the basis of breakthroughs. Jonas salk used them to develop the first vaccine for polio. Medical advances in vitrovertization, cell biology, Cancer Research and all things to hela cells. Since hela were not the first cells to be widely replicated but also s
President obamas remarks about Trayvon Martin and race relations. And newly disclosed emails obtained by the Associated Press showed former indiana governor Mitch Daniels, now head of Purdue University, moved to remove hard zinns work in classrooms weeks before the historians death. Editor,speak with his Anthony Arnove, and hear zinn in his own words. People that tell roosevelt, one of our great heroes, was a warmonger, loved military exploits, and congratulated a general who committed a massacre in the philippines . Should we tell young people that . I think we should be honest with young people. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Thousands of demonstrators rallied for a week ever the acquittal of George Zimmerman and the shooting of Trayvon Martin. In new york city, the mother of Trayvon Martin, sybrina fulton, addressed hundreds. In the courtroom, it seemed that they were talking about another man. It
We will speak about the motor city with detroit native mark binelli, author of, detroit city is the pace to be the afterlife of an american metropolis. Then, elite pakistani report challenges u. S. Claims of a low civilian toll from the drone war in pakistan. The gulf between the medias understanding and the resurgence understanding of what is taking place in pakistan, and with the cia and white house claim, is growing bigger, not smaller. We will go to london to speak with chris woods of the bureau of Investigative Journalism. If you watched television for even a minute yesterday, chances are you know, its a boy. It is exciting. A boy will be great for great britain. I think it is exciting for will and kate. Media frenzy greets the arrival of a new heir to the british throne, we will speak with british journalist laurie penny on the babies we dont care about today. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A le
We will speak about the motor city with detroit native mark binelli, author of, detroit city is the pace to be the afterlife of an american metropolis. Then, elite pakistani report challenges u. S. Claims of a low civilian toll from the drone war in pakistan. The gulf between the medias understanding and the resurgence understanding of what is taking place in pakistan, and with the cia and white house claim, is growing bigger, not smaller. We will go to london to speak with chris woods of the bureau of Investigative Journalism. If you watched television for even a minute yesterday, chances are you know, its a boy. It is exciting. A boy will be great for great britain. I think it is exciting for will and kate. Media frenzy greets the arrival of a new heir to the british throne, we will speak with british journalist laurie penny on the babies we dont care about today. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A le