School of Hard Knocks

A history of the brief mayoral career of Harold Washington and its lessons for Black and white America, as told by people close to him. (39 minutes)Harold Washington died on November 25, 1987.  This show was first broadcast ten years later, in 1997.

The judges walk us through how different their jobs have become in just the past few months, because of sweeping policy changes by Trump’s Department of Justice.

A young couple, excited to start a new chapter in their lives, is suddenly put on a very different trajectory. (30 minutes)

When the United States Congress saw a problem — sex trafficking — it acted to eliminate it.

Lana has a problem lots of mothers have right now during the pandemic—but a more extreme version of it.

Producers Diane Wu and Lina Misitzis spend the night at a corner grocery store in Brooklyn, New York and talk to some of the people that pass by. (25 minutes)