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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 1 March 2018
PBS launching Meghan Markle says she wants to

new conservative focus on women’s empowerment

political talk show tion-and-answer session
that she was still new to her
role but “it’s very important
By DAVID BAUDER ous, civil dialogue as an to want to hit the ground
AP Media Writer alternative to the bitterness running.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Colum- of our civic discourse,” Ger- The 36-year-old Ameri-
nist Michael Gerson and son said. can actress said that with
commentator Amy Hol- Gerson is known to the PBS the Me Too and Time’s Up
mes are teaming to start a audience as a frequent campaigns against sexual
conservative-oriented talk guest on “NewsHour.” harassment, “there is no
show on PBS that takes its Holmes worked on MSNBC better time than to really
cue from William F. Buck- and on Glenn Beck’s me- continue to shine a light
ley’s “Firing Line,” which dia company, The Blaze. on women feeling empow-
aired from 1966 to 1999. Although the show is be- ered and people really
The new show, “In Prin- ginning at a time of Re- helping to support them.”
ciple,” will air Friday nights publican dominance in Harry, 33, said he and
starting April 13. PBS will de- both the White House and From left, Meghan Markle, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge and Markle were “pretty tied
cide after an eight-week Congress, Gerson has often Britain’s Prince William during the first annual Royal Foundation up with planning a wed-
Forum in London, Wednesday Feb. 28, 2018.
run whether to continue. found himself at odds with Associated Press ding at the moment,” but
The hosts plan to interview President Donald Trump. looked forward to working
two guests each show, He said Holmes more often LONDON (AP) — Meghan liam and the Duchess of with William and Kate on
hoping for an in-depth dis- takes the president’s side, Markle said Wednesday Cambridge. charitable projects.
cussion on issues and their or acts as the “anti-anti- that she hopes to “hit the The first joint engagement “I think it’s really good
formative political experi- Trump.” ground running” as a mem- by the two couples cel- we’ve got four different
ences. “I think the Trump era has ber of the British royal fam- ebrated the work of the personalities, we’ve all got
No guests have been an- been a very difficult time ily and use her position to Royal Foundation, which that same passion to want
nounced yet, but Gerson for traditional conservative highlight the empower- supports charities includ- to make a difference, but
said he’d like to discuss is- discourse,” he said. ment of women. ing the Heads Together different opinions,” he said.
sues like race, gun control “I think a lot of institutions Markle, who is due to marry mental-health campaign He said “working as family
and whether conservatism and places have been Prince Harry in May, at- and the Invictus Games for does have its challenges
is the right message for the co-opted in this era. I view tended an event in London injured troops. ... but we’re stuck together
working class. conservatism not only as a alongside Harry, Prince Wil- Markle said during a ques- for the rest of our lives.”q
“I find when I go around belief but a state of mind,
also a respect for facts.”q Author Harper Lee’s will
the country that there is a respect for tradition but
actually a hunger for seri-
made, but not estate details

MONROEVILLE, Ala. (AP) —
The will of “To Kill a Mock-
ingbird” author Harper Lee
has been made public
following a lawsuit by The
New York Times, but details
on her estate remain a se-
cret.
The Times reports the will
unsealed Tuesday shows
most of Lee’s assets were
transferred into a trust days
before her death two years
ago in her hometown of
Monroeville, Alabama.
But the contents of her
estate remain private be-
cause trust documents are
private. In this Aug. 20, 2007 file photo, author Harper Lee smiles during
A probate court sealed the a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama
Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
will of the famously private Associated Press
writer following her death,
and the newspaper filed sition to unsealing the will. man,” a precursor to “To Kill
suit in 2016 to have the Written over a five-year a Mockingbird” that wasn’t
document made public. period ending in 1961, the published until 2015.
The suit argued that Lee’s letters are from Lee to New The university said it ac-
desire for privacy wasn’t York architect Harold Cau- quired the letters from Paul
sufficient legal reason to field and his friends, who R. Kennerson, a retired at-
keep her will hidden from included Michael and Joy torney from La Jolla, Cali-
public view. Brown. The couple assisted fornia. They will become
Records show the estate Lee for a year while she available to the public in
recently dropped its oppo- wrote “Go Set a Watch- April.q