Friday Nite Videos -- May 10, 2013 (Mothers' Day Edition)

Bill Withers -- Ain't No Sunshine and Grandma's Hands. Elizabeth Warren: give students banker treatment. Wild Women Don't Have the Blues. Stephen Colbert interviews Congresswoman Donna Edwards. The Girls in the Band: documentary.

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Bill Withers -- Ain't No Sunshine

Bill Withers, in 1971, playing Ain't No Sunshine.

Bill Withers -- Grandma's Hands

Bill Withers pays tribute to a special kind of mother -- a grandmother.

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Elizabeth Warren: Give Students Banker Break on Loans

Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to help college students drowning in debt by putting them in the same boat as the big banks.

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues

http://portside.org/2013-05-10/wild-women-dont-have-blues

How the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. The lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture.

Stephen Colbert Gets to Know Maryland's 4th District

Congresswoman Donna Edwards explains that Maryland did not ban straight marriage and discusses her stance on gun control.

The Girls in the Band: Documentary

The history of the all-girl bands and the talented female jazz and big band instrumentalists who continue to struggle for recognition in a man's world.