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A dancer paralyzed with a spinal cord injury adapts to life with a disability.

Gen Z influencers and experts help dissect influential social media platform TikTok.

Hazing reveals the tradition of underground rituals that are abusive and sometimes deadly.

A filmmaker's brother opens up about his recovery from opioid use disorder.

A transgender woman comes out to her old-school Ohio bowling league.

Two fronteriza women live in two cultures at the same time along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Indigenous teens going to a remote school on Navajo Nation reservation plan their futures.

Researchers take a mind-blowing journey to investigate the mysteries of consciousness.

Exposé on how American housing policy has been manipulated in discriminatory ways.

Native Americans recover the remains of children who died at an Indian boarding school.

Inside the family-run newspaper keeping local journalism alive.

Michael Brown Sr. seeks justice after a white police officer kills his son in Ferguson.