PBS News Hour

October 17, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

On this edition for Sunday, October 17, American missionaries kidnapped in Haiti as the crisis-hit nation sees a rise in gang violence. Also, why Native Americans are paying huge sums to buy back ancestral land, and the many acts of musician-turned-actor-turned-musician Stevie Van Zandt. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.

Booster shots challenge govts during vaccine inequality

4m 6s

COVID-19 was the number one cause of death for people between the ages of 35 to 54 during some months since the pandemic began last year, according to recent data. Meanwhile, as the Delta variant continues to drive infections around the world, the push for booster shots in the U.S. has raised concerns since many are still awaiting their first dose. ProPublica’s Caroline Chen joins.

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  • Tribal land buybacks: a commercial route to social justice: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Tribal land buybacks: a commercial route to social justice

    S2021 E290 - 7m 22s

    In part two of a two-part series, Special Correspondent Kira Kay reports on the Nez Perce tribe and its efforts to regain control of part of the 7.5 million acres of land granted to it by the U.S. government in the mid 19th century. Reclaiming that land, which was almost all taken after the tribe was violently driven away, has meant taking a more commercial approach to social justice.

  • The music world according to Stevie Van Zandt: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The music world according to Stevie Van Zandt

    S2021 E290 - 5m 23s

    To call Stevie Van Zandt a renaissance man may be a bit of an understatement. He’s in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, was an E Street Band guitarist, an actor, an activist and a producer Van Zandt joins NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker to discuss his life, career, and his new memoir, 'Unrequited Infatuations,' which documents his life in the music and acting business.

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