'Three Kings' book explores swimming at the 1924 Olympics "Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Redefined Sports and Launched the Modern Olympic Age" tells the story of three swimmers who overcame discrimination and hardships on their road to becoming superstars.
‘Flap Your Hands' breaks stimming stigma People with autism often face a stigma for stimming, repetitive behaviors to regulate emotions that can sometimes look like someone flapping their hands or wiggling their fingers.
Inside the 'Passionate Mind' of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune The educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jesse Katz exposes the underside of immigration in LA "The Rent Collectors" by Jesse Katz tells the true story of two botched gang murders, and the immigrants stuck between the police and the gangs that run their downtrodden LA neighborhood. A Martínez
'Others Were Emeralds' tells story of immigrant experience in Australia Author Lang Leav's novel "Others Were Emeralds" is set in Australia in the 1990s and centers around a group of teens who are the children of refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge.
These dictators are different. 'Autocracy, Inc.' explains how The dictators of today aren't united by ideology, writes Anne Applebaum: They operate like companies, focused on preserving their wealth, repressing their people and maintaining power at all costs. Frank Langfitt
'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu says creativity isn't magic — it's hard work Chu takes his inspiration from his dad, a Chinese immigrant who worked both the front room and the kitchen of their family-run restaurant: "The guy that in the back of the kitchen, that was my hero." Terry Gross
'Someone Like Us' is a fresh, idiosyncratic novel about immigrating to the U.S. Dinaw Mengestu's ingenuity and eloquence as a writer are on display in this novel about an Ethiopian American man who returns home only to learn that his father has just died. Maureen Corrigan
Director of 'Crazy Rich Asians' Jon Chu on his new memoir NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with film director Jon Chu about his new memoir Viewfinder. Chu is best known for his 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians. Jonaki Mehta
Expert on dictators warns: Don't lose hope -- that's what they want Autocracy, Inc. author Anne Applebaum says that today’s dictators — including Putin and Xi — are working together in a global fight to dismantle democracy, and Trump is borrowing from their playbook. Tonya Mosley
