Producer David Grubin and Professor Elisa New discuss their public TV series now in development, Poetry in America, showing clips from an episode ("Harlem," featuring President Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Sonia Sanchez and children from the Harlem Childrens Zone) and airing the challenge, and...

Before you can change the world, you have to be able to imagine other possibilities and see yourself as a political agent. This is what we call the civic imagination. Through interviews with more than 200 young activists, the USC Media, Activism, and Participatory Politics research group has...