For over twenty years, students at University Laboratory High School have worked with Illinois Public Media to produce audio documentaries covering a wide range of issues. Their latest project has taken them further afield than usual: to Clarksdale, Mississippi and other Delta communities, to see how Habitat for Humanity and other organizations are bringing greater opportunity and renewed purpose to people's lives.

Black and white couples and same-sex couples living in central Illinois share their personal struggles, triumphs and responses to familial and societal prejudice towards their marriages.

In the final installment of Breaking Barriers we meet Kathleen Robbins, a transgender woman

In part three of Breaking Barriers we hear about the stories of non-traditional couples who have chosen to have children and how their marriage has affected their children’s upbringing

In part two of Breaking Barriers we hear how the AIDS epidemic helped galvanize gay rights activists in the United States

In part one of Breaking Barriers we hear from several LGBTQ residents in central Illinois about their experiences with religion.