And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis wendell pierce, a successful career means taking on a wide array wide array of diverse characters. He is on the michael j. Fox show. Essedays a ratingsobs producer. He also plays in treme. Its final season on hbo. Before we start our conversation, a look at a scene from treme. I love it when dan comes in on the vocals. They used to do that a lot in the old days. It always cracked me up. Call and response . Yeah, thats right. The guys in back go, we love all. [laughter] says i said a moment ago, it aint so, but as it turns out, this has been a pretty good run for a series that come if you looked at it on paper a few years ago, given the katrina evenue, it might not have gotten off the ground, let alone lasted this long. It is one of those things that you realize that come in a disaster, the greatest thing that you have is the will of the people. A lot of times, people saw katrina is just an event that dealt
All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts. Always, there has been a certain fascination in relating the real world with the theatrical world in defining life in terms of art or art in terms of life. The creation of the playwrights world begins with an empty stage. This stage represents the artists blank canvas, the musicians instrument before a single note is played. It was the bare stage that caught pirandellos imagination and became the catalyst for six characters in search of an author. He himself wrote that he wanted an audience to feel they had just happened to enter an auditorium and stumbled on to a rehearsal. They see unplanned events take place and develop accidentally into a play performance. At this given time in this given space, identities, actions, meanings evolve between the characters and the actors, between the real and the imaginary, between life and art. And th
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Has alwaysr yarrow believed music can change lives for the better. Musicians made sure they were there when it came time to stand up for justice. They were there 50 years ago this summer for a march on washington, and just last month he put together a concert for Sandy Hook Elementary School families. He has a new book based on one of the trios most beloved songs, india. Arie im in love with a big blue frog. Lets take a look at peter, paul mary singing im in love with a big blue frog from their 20th anniversary concert. Im in love with the big lou frog, a big blue frog loves me worknow we can make things here. Paul was noel was here not too long ago. Great time as always. You guys are forever busy. The work doesnt stop. The commitment is something we inherited from the people in the folk field. Say, if you sing to me, you have to lift me. The turning point came when we did participate in the march on and i remem
This longing to attain a self conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. And in the merging, he desires neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not africanize america, for america has too much to teach the world and africa. He would not bleach his negro soul in the flood of white americanism, for he knows that negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a negro and an american without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows and without having the door of opportunity closed roughly in his face. So. No matter the smile, no matter the grin, no matter the bow, there is no safety. No hiding place. No matter what mask we wear, we blacks are damned if we do and damned if we dont. As Ralph Ellison says in the beginning of his novel, invisible man, we black americans have no guarantee that we exist at all. I am an invisible man. No, im not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe nor am i one
Could the United States and iran soon join together to help defend the iraqi state . We will go to iraq for the latest. Then a humanitarian crisis on the u. S. Mexico border. So far this year, 47,000 unaccompanied children have been detained after crossing into the United States. Some are now being held in warehouses come a sleeping in plastic containers. Whenever i made it to the rio grande, i jumped and swam across because i wanted to be with my mom. I was not thinking about breaking the law. I was thinking about escaping an abusive and alcoholic father. To make it to the United States, not for a better life, but just to be with my mother. Looks we will speak with Jose Luis Zelaya, as a 13yearold, he left honduras alone in search of his mother. And Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Sonia Nazario, author of, enriques journey the story of a boys dangerous odyssey to reunite with his mother. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace repo