PBS News Hour

May 23, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

May 23, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

Piecemeal reform is leading the way for national change

9m 31s

The death of Ronald Greene, a Black man who died in Louisiana in 2019 after a police chase is under scrutiny after newly released police body camera footage shows he was choked and beaten by troopers. Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity, and professor of African-American studies and psychology at Yale University joins

Previews + Extras

  • Inside Malaco Records, the ‘Last Soul Company’: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Inside Malaco Records, the ‘Last Soul Company’

    S2021 E143 - 6m 15s

    Referred to as “The Last Soul Company," Malaco Records, based in Jackson, Mississippi, has managed to outlast major record label competitors over the past 50 years. The small, mostly unheard-of independent record label has been home to multiple recording artists and songwriters and has a catalog of original recordings and music copyrights, numbering into the thousands. Christopher Booker reports.

  • Here’s what's changed since George Floyd's death: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Here’s what's changed since George Floyd's death

    S2021 E143 - 4m 43s

    This week marks one year since George Floyd, an unarmed Black man was killed by then police officer Derek Chauvin, who held his knee on Floyd for nearly nine minutes. His death, recorded on video by a bystander, sparked widespread protests globally, and reignited the Black Lives Matter movement and conversations around race. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro joins.

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