June 28, 2020 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

Products like Aunt Jemima are going through a branding and advertising overhaul as companies respond to the Black Lives Matter movement. NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker reports on America Inc’s efforts to address and eliminate brand names and imagery that reflect America’s racist past.

This Pride, we are remembering a community’s struggle with a different epidemic decades ago. Raised by gay parents, a man recalls how HIV AIDS was impacting people around him and how a group of men called his “aunties” helped him pull through. This animated short is part of the new StoryCorps season “Father Figures.”

On this edition for Sunday, June 28, the number of coronavirus cases worldwide crosses ten million with the U.S. leading with over 2.5 million cases. Also, the race to change names and overhaul brands amid a historic reckoning over racism and how Samoa island is finding alternatives to plastic. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from Florida.

Starting Monday, PBS will be airing a two-part series as part of its "Trailblazers" initiative, celebrating 100 years of women's suffrage in America. The documentary, titled "And She Could Be Next" follows women candidates and organizers who are transforming American politics. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with the producer and the director of the series, Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia.