A video celebrating 100 years of the Oregon Blue book. Interviews with Oregon's legislative leaders.

"In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of...

"India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the worldʼs third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce, a journalist who covered India for many years, makes brilliant sense of India and its rise to global power. Already a number-one bestseller in India,...

Argues that a global conspiracy has enslaved Americans with poor education, a misguided mass media, and a buffet of prescription drugs, and issues a call to break free from this catatonic state and reclaim what America once stood for.

In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Now they stood looking down, bitter, angry, afraid. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people

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A look at the family members of the late Bob Marley, as they travel for the first time to Ethiopia in 2005, for the annual Africa Unite concert. This landmark event is to inspire the young generations of Africa to unite for the future of their continent.