When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be “cured," LGBTQ+ activists fought back.
Michael Brown Sr. seeks justice after a white police officer kills his son in Ferguson.
Inside the family-run newspaper keeping local journalism alive.
Fired from a lifelong job, a 75-year-old mom teams up with her son to reclaim her future through bucket list adventures.
130 years after Native American boys died at an Indian boarding school, their tribe tries to bring them home.
A white filmmaker collaborates with Clemente Course students of color to reckon with Boston's racial history.
The deadliest part of a migrant's journey is just beyond the border. For those missing, one man offers a last hope.
Is the "American Dream" of home ownership a false promise? While the government’s postwar housing policy created the world’s largest middle class, it also set America on two divergent paths – one of perceived wealth and the other of systematically defunded, segregated communities.
What is the cost of feeling safe? In an era of mass shootings, lockdown drills and teacher firearms training are as much a part of life as homecoming dances and basketball practice. Take a provocative look at fear, violence, and what Americans will do to feel safe in schools.
Since the beginning of the War on Drugs, the number of women in U.S. prisons has grown drastically. The majority are mothers. Three unforgettable formerly incarcerated mothers, jailed for drug-related charges, fight to overcome alienation—and a society that labels them "felons"—to readjust to life with their families.
In a male-dominated media landscape, the women journalists of India's all-female Khabar Lahariya ("News Wave") newspaper risk it all, including their own safety, to cover the country's political, social, and local news from a women-powered perspective. From underground network to independent media empire, they defy the odds to redefine power. Nominated for an Academy Award.
What is the science behind consciousness? Six brilliant researchers from around the world—a brain scientist, a plant behaviorist, a healer, a philosophy professor, a psychedelics scientist, and a Buddhist monk—take you on a mind-blowing quest to investigate this seemingly unsolvable mystery.
At Lowell High School, San Francisco's academic pressure cooker, the kids are stressed out. With a majority Asian American student body, high-achieving seniors share their dreams and anxieties about getting into a top university. But is college worth the grind?
After getting shot in the face by a 15-year-old, Claude's path to recovery leads to forgiveness.
On the Navajo Nation reservation, Indigenous teens at one of the most remote schools in America plan their futures.