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Can a trendy, pop-psychology cottage industry actually improve the culture of the police and military?

The Social Justice Sewing Academy is teaching an old form of social media to a new generation of marginalized students.

Juan Carlos Lopez is braving local violence so that indigenous workers can get a share of the profits.

In Ulaanbaatar, a small women's rights group is using comic books to nurture Mongolian women's ambitions.

Caleb Byerly works with indigenous communities to rediscover—and rebuild—their people's lost instruments.

Miranda Massie hopes the Climate Museum in New York City can convince visitors to be better stewards of the climate—by appealing at once to their intellect and their emotions.

With her pioneering courses, Annie Delgado is filling in the gaps left by more traditional curricula.

In SupremacyLand, visitors are forced to examine how they respond to overt expressions of racial bigotry.

The playwright and actress' one-woman shows are deeply political—but she isn't here to preach.

At the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, readers and writers celebrate the lyrical beauty of rural existence.

Walter Cole has spent the past 50 years performing at his club in Portland. During that time he became an icon and leader in the community.

Rafa Esparza's adobe installations serve as a backdrop for the work of others, but they also tell Esparza's own story—and that of his immigrant parents.

India's first English-language lifestyle magazine in Braille is bringing quizzes, fashion stories, and inspirational profiles to the biggest blind population in the world.

As political instability roils the Central African Republic, neighbors are accusing neighbors of practicing the dark arts.

Eva Kor survived Auschwitz and Josef Mengele. Today, she's healing by telling her story.

In their California comedy show, couple Robin Tran and Cate Gary share their complex love story—and normalize comedy about gender transitions in the process.

As the population of displaced Syrians swells in Germany, one storytelling series aims to expedite integration through first-person narrative.

The history of man and climate, written into the bedrock of Mongolia.

And Bollywood may just be the perfect platform.

For American regional theaters, diversifying their audiences will mean the difference between life and death. But it's not simple or easy.

In Los Angeles, the Museum of Broken Relationships gathers its emotional collection from the public—and, in the process, invites civilians of all classes and backgrounds to heal.