Prologue

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)

Susan Burton introduces some of the many women who went to a Yale fertility clinic for IVF treatment, and charts their experience from hopeful beginning to excruciatingly painful egg retrieval.

Often bypassing logic, the women go to great lengths to construct elaborate stories to make sense of their inexplicable pain.

Susan Burton is a couple years into recovery from the eating disorder she’s had for decades.