Tonya Mosley
Stories
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Filmmakers profile America's economically lost generation in 'Two American Families'
FRONTLINE documentarians Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes spent decades following two working-class families who lost well-paying manufacturing jobs and then struggled to regain their way of life.
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Understanding the resurgence of jobs in America's 'left behind' counties
David Madland of the Center for American Progress says new, “good” jobs are on the rise, but many of the workers don’t realize it’s a result of Biden’s new industrial policies.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores wealth and family trauma in 'Long Island Compromise'
Brodesser-Akner's novel centers on the kidnapping of a rich businessman, and the impact, decades later, on his grown children. Her previous book is Fleishman Is In Trouble.
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A member of the 'T-Shirt Swim Club' chronicles life as 'the funny fat kid'
Comedy writer Ian Karmel has been making fun of his own body since he was a kid. He wrote T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People along with his sister.
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Debate between Biden and Trump is expected to be a test of competence and character
New York Times political correspondent Shane Goldmacher says the debate will look different from the one four years ago, with no audience and mics that can be muted should things get unwieldy.
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After the Sept. 11 attacks, Michelle Buteau decided: 'I better start living'
Buteau says covering the news of the 2001 terrorist attacks crystalized her desire to go into comedy. She stars in the film Babes and in the Netflix series Survival of the Thickest.
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Ghanaian artist Blitz Bazawule breaks down doors
Bazawule is best known for directing the 2023 adaptation of The Color Purple: The Musical. He also co-directed Black Is King with Beyoncé. His new exhibit of paintings is about growing up in Ghana.
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David Oyelowo on playing justice seekers, peacekeepers and men on a mission
Oyelowo plays a formerly enslaved man who went on to become one of the nation's first Black Deputy U.S. Marshals in the Paramount+ series Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Oyelowo also produced the series.
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Reconstruction-era records reveal how formerly enslaved people were stripped of land
Journalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says some freed men and women were given titles to land following the Civil War -- but after President Lincoln's death, the land was taken back.
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Actor Griffin Dunne revisits his Hollywood childhood in 'The Friday Afternoon Club'
In a new memoir, Dunne writes about growing up in a family of storytellers, his complicated relationship with fame and the trauma the family experienced after the 1982 murder of his sister, Dominique.