The Kitchen Sisters
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the legendary U.S. Route 66. We revisit a 1984 documentary made as the last stretch of the highway was being bypassed by the Federal Interstate System.
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The Kitchen Sisters -- producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva -- came across a 1983 conversation they had with Edna Lewis, a legendary American chef and a pioneer of Southern cooking.
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One of the world's most influential filmmakers, Agnes Varda, has died at age 90. In 2017, she received an honorary Oscar.
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Folklore archivist William Ferris is among the nominees for the 2019 Grammy Awards for his album: Voices of Mississippi — a collection of rural church gospel hymns, Delta blues and work songs. -
The comic Lenny Bruce was brilliant, profane and self-destructive. After Bruce's death at age 40, his widow and their daughter started archiving all that he had left behind.
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In 1930s Kentucky, in coal country, books made their way to remote and isolated regions of the state through The Pack Horse Library Project.
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For the past five years, the Golden State Warriors have traveled to San Quentin, the well-known California maximum security prison, to play a basketball game against select prison inmates.
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Though a notorious recluse, Emily Dickinson shared her masterful creations with friends and neighbors. Early drafts of her poems are often found on the backs of cake recipes and flour labels.
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When food shortages struck San Francisco, wily entrepreneurs raided the dangerous Farallon Islands for protein-rich eggs from seabirds. In the process, they destroyed both wildlife and each other. -
In Japan, a country rich with visual storytelling, food has skyrocketed as a genre of manga — and the stories often depict a struggle for self-improvement.
