Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien

Learning to live with Covid-19; a family's-two year search for their missing loved one; how Claudette Colvin paved a path for Rosa Parks and desegregation; Afghan refugees stranded in hotels for months; preview of HGTV duo's efforts to rebuild Detroit.

The battle over who gets to vote and how; the megadrought's impact on an Arizona farm family as irrigation sources dry up; Pennsylvania teens fight a school's book ban and win; what's next for families when the Child Tax Credits end; an essay by Historian Joanne Freeman on the January 6th Capitol attack.

A road trip on I-70 shows American identity; Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad; denied citizenship; Nikole Hannah Jones, of the 1619 Project, on her father's legacy; Jose Antonio Vargas on life as an undocumented American.

A social experiment examining how seven strangers respond to bias; how stereotypes in entertainment influence media and attitudes today; two men with similar upbringings have very different futures; the rapper using art as protest.

West Virginia's decline in vaccination rates; an inside look at how juries work; two women who made life changing choices; people share what it means to be an American; the green wall going up across Africa.

An innovative high school paying kids to attend and giving them a chance to own a home; the first African American skier to medal at the Paralympics; a two-spirit Native American couple breaking barriers with dance; a NYC restaurant owner paying $25/hour minimum wage; where do cranberries come from?

Two women take on cases of Black and missing people; an innovative program teaching new skills to help people get better paying jobs; the brutal massacre in Florida's history becomes required learning; New Delhi is choking on pollution; new and improved wind turbine walls may soon be coming to cities.

Prof. Janet Currie on what the exodus of women from the workforce means for all of us; a trip to rural Iowa to see the impact of the school bus shortage on families; how rising sea levels are poisoning coastal lands; possible discovery of a planet outside the Milky Way; the man behind the Veterans Day holiday.

Constitutional law expert on NY gun permit case at Supreme Court; female cranberry farmer in Wisconsin on challenges for women-led businesses; award-winning educator teaching climate science; why emergency rooms are on overload; gift lets Detroit Boxing Gym expand the facility and better serve kids.

Growing pains in rural Wisconsin town where immigrants outnumber American-born residents; what's at stake in Minneapolis' police reform vote; artist Frida Kahlo's message for our times; U.S. calls on Americans to help resettle Afghan families; recycling wind turbine blades into everyday items.