The New York Times Presents | The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson
The New York Times Presents | 'Framing Britney Spears'
The New York Times Presents | 'Who Gets To Be An Influencer?'
For the last doctors of the Santa Fe school shooting, the world has moved on — but they haven’t | Think | NBC News
How An ALS Patient Battled With Choosing His Last Day | NBC News
The AI music revolution
Why reparations for slavery is realistic today
Open-source maps are saving the rainforest-and the world
Inside The Sunrise Movement: How Climate Activists Put The Green New Deal On The Map | NBC News
In Search Of Asylum: A Journey On The Migrant Caravan | NBC News
Hunting For Ghost Gear: What Happens When Fishing Nets Go Rogue | NBC News
Ready, Aim, Post: Inside The Life Of An Instagram Gun Influencer | NBC News
Blue Collar Betrayal: Carrier Workers Feel 'Forgotten' By President Donald Trump | NBC News
Inside A Russian Troll Factory | Think | NBC News
Could Bees Be The Answer To West Virginia's Coal Slump? | NBC News
The Cost Of Being An Underpaid Teacher In Oklahoma: 'Survival Mode' | NBC News
Death Penalty Countdown: Execution Day Arrives for One Arkansas Family | NBC News
The Human Factor: What It'll Take To Build The Perfect Team For Traveling To Mars | Mach | NBC News
Could Microorganisms Be Good Analogs To Life On Mars And Other Planets? | Mach | NBC News
Raising 'Theybies': Letting Kids Choose Their Gender | NBC News
If Felons Could Vote, They Could Swing 2016 Election | NBC News
Fighting For His Mask: The Life Of A Lucha Libre Wrestler | NBC Latino
Donald Trump: Life As A Celebrity Impersonator | NBC News
The Female Voice Of Ted Cruz | NBC News
Transgender Models Transform Fashion Industry | NBC Out | NBC News
The New York Times Presents | The Dressing Down of Janet JacksonIn 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman’s breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued. The woman was Janet Jackson, and her career was never the same. This New York Times Presents documentary explores that episode and the aftermath. It features rare footage and interviews with several people who were at the controls that night in Houston — including N.F.L. and MTV executives — to reconstruct an incident that shook the country and explain how it shaped culture in the decades to follow. With new reporting by The New York Times, as well as insights from music industry insiders, cultural critics and members of the Jackson family, the film illuminates the extraordinary fallout, CBS executive Les Moonves’s role and Justin Timberlake’s parallel career rise. This will air simultaneously on FX and Hulu, and will continue to be available to stream on Hulu.
The New York Times Presents | 'Framing Britney Spears'Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over who should control her life.
The New York Times Presents | 'Who Gets To Be An Influencer?'The New York Times chronicles the rise of Collab Crib, one of the first mainstream Black "creator mansions," exclusively documenting their whirlwind drive to achieve social media stardom in 90 days.
For the last doctors of the Santa Fe school shooting, the world has moved on — but they haven’t | Think | NBC NewsFor three women at the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office, keeping professional and personal lives separate is essential. But in May of 2018, a gunman killed eight students and two teachers at Santa Fe High School. This time, leaving their work at the office would prove impossible.
How An ALS Patient Battled With Choosing His Last Day | NBC NewsHow do you choose your last day on Earth? When George Gallegos was diagnosed with ALS, he found himself facing a grim future with a disease that slowly kills the muscles in a person’s body. But with the passing of Colorado's End of Life Options Act, he suddenly had a choice: to die from his disease or to take life-ending medication. NBC News spent the last three months of his life with him to capture the visible struggles of ALS and George’s inner conflict to decide his last day.
The AI music revolution“What does it mean to be an artist when anybody can create as you?” Mat Dryhurst asked Freethink’s Melanie Bencosme in a recent interview in the Berlin studio he shares with his partner Holly Herndon. “Do you say, ‘Nobody should be able to create as me, and I’m gonna shut this down’?” he continued. “Or do you lean into it and say, ‘Let’s acknowledge that this is now a thing, and see how far we can take it’?” That provocative question is at the white hot center of the debate artists around the world are having about the rise of new generative AI tools which promise unprecedented opportunities to democratize creativity and yet raise serious concerns over issues of consent, ownership, and control. Holly and Mat are artists, technologists, writers, and hosts of the Interdependence podcast which explores the intersection of art, technology, and policy. A hallmark of their work is both advocating for artists in this changing landscape while also exuding excitement about what these new technologies could produce. As Mat explains, “I don’t see any conflict between being very, very excited about development and machine learning, and also being very loyal to or concerned about artist welfare. I think that to suggest that there is an inherent conflict there is to kind of foreclose a bunch of possibilities that are actually still on the table.” We sat down with them last month to talk about these debates and explore what answers they have found through their experiments — from Holly+, an AI voice model trained on Holly’s voice that doubles as an experiment in consent in AI to the website “Have I Been Trained?”, which lets artists search for their work in major AI art systems and give artists the option to opt-in or out of their work being used in AI training. The resulting conversation is a fascinating (and refreshingly nuanced) look at the frontier of an emerging technology from two deeply thoughtful creative minds. _______________________________________________Holly Herndon is a musician and technologist living in Berlin, Germany. Along with partner Mat Dryhurst, she is the creator of Holly+ and the co-host of the Interdependence podcast. Mathew Dryhurst is an artist and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. He hosts the Interdependence podcast with partner Holly Herndon.
Why reparations for slavery is realistic todayReparations are not a fairy tale. The U.S. has a long history of compensating groups for harm — even though they continue to deny reparations for descendants of enslaved Black people. In this video, we explore how normal it is for the U.S. to award reparations and how that precedent makes reparations for the Black descendants of enslaved people a reality today. This piece features Harvard Professor Cornell William Brooks, a former president of the NAACP and a fourth-generation minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. “Not only do we [the U.S.] have the expertise, we also have the resources, right?...So all we need to do is get our government to be as brilliant and innovative, as creative, when it comes to racial harms, as we've been with respect to nonracial harms.” – Cornell William Brooks
Open-source maps are saving the rainforest-and the worldOn its own, the mighty Amazon jungle could capture around 600 million tons of CO2 per year, says Tasso Azevedo, one of Brazil’s leading environmental advocates. But human activity threatens to destroy not only the Amazon, but a variety of unique ecosystems, leaving in their place farms, gold mines and pasture lands. All of this is happening as the world faces a changing climate — the warmer and drier weather raising fire risks and making ecosystems less resilient. But a coalition of NGOs, universities, and tech companies, are harnessing technology to help track land use across the vastness and diversity of Brazil. The collaborative project, called MapBiomas, uses satellite imagery to track and report human changes to ecosystems. With all of its data available publicly, MapBiomas is fighting not only climate change and environmental destruction, but crime, too. This video was created in partnership with the Skoll Foundation.
Inside The Sunrise Movement: How Climate Activists Put The Green New Deal On The Map | NBC NewsThe Green New Deal has seemingly come out of the blue to become a litmus test for 2020 presidential hopefuls. But it didn't happen by accident. Alongside multiple members of Congress—notably Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey—a group of young activists has pushed the plan into the headlines, working behind the scenes to reshape America's approach to the climate crisis.
In Search Of Asylum: A Journey On The Migrant Caravan | NBC NewsFor Magdiel Lopez, Mirna Aldana, and their 18-month-old son Joshua, the perilous journey on the migrant caravan through Mexico presented dangers and risks, but also a chance at a new life in America.
Hunting For Ghost Gear: What Happens When Fishing Nets Go Rogue | NBC NewsMarine life is battling an unexpected enemy, lost fishing gear, also known as ghost gear. 705,000 tons of fishing gear are lost in the ocean every year. Mike Neill and his crew are trying to change that.
Ready, Aim, Post: Inside The Life Of An Instagram Gun Influencer | NBC NewsLiberte Austin is a social media influencer with more than 200,000 followers. She’s a proponent of the second amendment and promotes a gun lifestyle primarily on Instagram. Her posts on social media are taking gun marketing to a new level.
Blue Collar Betrayal: Carrier Workers Feel 'Forgotten' By President Donald Trump | NBC NewsRenee Elliott waited in the rain to vote for Donald Trump because she thought he would save her job. Now, she’s being laid off.
Inside A Russian Troll Factory | Think | NBC NewsIn January of 2015, Russian journalist Lyudmila Savchuk infiltrated a Russian troll factory - an operation specifically set up to disrupt the U.S. elections through social media. This is her re-telling of those events.
Could Bees Be The Answer To West Virginia's Coal Slump? | NBC NewsIn Summers County, West Virginia, what was once a booming coal-fueled economy has diminished as coal usage in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest since 1979. The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective based in Summers County is hoping to help the economy by introducing former coal miners and low-income West Virginians to beekeeping. The Collective plans to pay the new beekeepers for the honey they produce to supplement their income and introduce a new kind of natural resource to West Virginia.
The Cost Of Being An Underpaid Teacher In Oklahoma: 'Survival Mode' | NBC NewsAfter massive cuts to education funding and no raises for the last ten years, teachers in Oklahoma staged a walkout following strikes across the country in West Virginia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Arizona.
Death Penalty Countdown: Execution Day Arrives for One Arkansas Family | NBC NewsJust miles away from death row in Arkansas, Genie Boren waits for the scheduled execution date of her husband’s killer, Kenneth Williams. Williams is one of the previously eight scheduled executions in a 10 day span in Arkansas.
The Human Factor: What It'll Take To Build The Perfect Team For Traveling To Mars | Mach | NBC NewsHi-SEAS in Mauna Loa, Hawaii is a simulated Mars habitat that’s meant to facilitate the study of human behavior. A group of four-to-six participants is selected from a pool of hundreds of astronaut aspirants to make up the crew for each mission. So far five missions have been conducted successfully. Mission VI began earlier this year but things didn’t go exactly as planned.
Could Microorganisms Be Good Analogs To Life On Mars And Other Planets? | Mach | NBC News
Raising 'Theybies': Letting Kids Choose Their Gender | NBC NewsJulie and Nate Sharpe are raising their 3-year-old twins using the pronoun they, them and their to shield them from gender stereotypes. This is a new parenting technique called, "theybies."
If Felons Could Vote, They Could Swing 2016 Election | NBC NewsDesmond Meade is one of 1.7 million disenfranchised felons in Florida. With the crucial swing state's polls so close, those votes could have put either candidate over the top.
Fighting For His Mask: The Life Of A Lucha Libre Wrestler | NBC LatinoLucha Libre is a form of Mexican wrestling. Joshua Robinson, a wrestler whose stage name is Mojo McQueen, is training for a regional heavyweight title. If he loses this match, he can never perform as Mojo McQueen again.
Donald Trump: Life As A Celebrity Impersonator | NBC NewsIn the first episode of 'The Trail Tapes,' a series about people with unorthodox relationships to the 2016 presidential campaign, we meet a Donald Trump impersonator.
The Female Voice Of Ted Cruz | NBC NewsIn this episode of The Trail Tapes we meet voiceover actor Laurel Katz, the female voice behind some pro-Ted Cruz ads.
Transgender Models Transform Fashion Industry | NBC Out | NBC NewsTrans Models NYC is a transgender modeling agency. Headed by Peche Di, the agency has signed 11 trans women and 3 trans men with hopes of pushing more trans models into the fashion industry.
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