Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien

Supply chain crisis backing up the Port of L.A., and the impact on business; Catherine Coleman Flowers on America's water and wastewater woes; the Salton Sea dries up, causing a health hazard; Fabien Cousteau explores the ocean floor for human habitat; the Soul Box Project shows loss to gun violence.

A look at infrastructure needs with Prof. Joseph Schober, host of "The Infrastructure Show" podcast; Sylvia Mendez on her life at the center of a 1947 school segregation case; a NYC restaurant owner paying staff $25 per hour; vaccine advances around the world; how AI finished Beethoven's 10th Symphony.

A look at the Great Resignation with psychologist Anthony Klotz; Puerto Rico's growing solar power movement; Dr. Harry Heiman explains how pandemic-related hospital closures are hurting rural America; the pandemic's impact on crime; how man-made glaciers could solve India's drought problems.

Women discuss choices when abortion was illegal; SCOTUSblog's Amy Howe on Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade; pandemic history and Dr. Howard Markel on what's next; comic Gina Brillon's American Dream; immigration courts get "rocket dockets" to speed up asylum cases; birth of United Farm Workers movement.

A resettlement agency helping Afghan refugees adapt to U.S. life; economist Wendy Edelberg on inflation, household budgets and the job market; a North Carolina brewery run by rival gang members; the massive evacuation efforts spurred by CA wildfires; the accidental discovery of an unknown island.

A resettlement agency helping Afghan refugees adapt to U.S. life; economist Wendy Edelberg on inflation, household budgets and the job market; a North Carolina brewery run by rival gang members; the massive evacuation efforts spurred by CA wildfires; the accidental discovery of an unknown island.

The women first responders at 9/11; critical care nurse who got first COVID vaccine in U.S. on nurses under stress; a tour of the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial with the man who became the moving force for it after his brother's death; a resettlement worker on Afghan refugee needs; reflecting on the images of 9/11.

Relocating communities as climate disaster multiply; Tennessee school nurses treating kids with COVID, and a family keeping vigil for their daughter in ICU; Bonnie St. John, the first African American Paralympic medalist; the post-pandemic eviction crisis; and can you name the world's oceans?

A look at Haiti relief efforts with U.N. official on the ground; a Texas school superintendent defies  Governor's mask mandate ban; anniversary of Emmett Till's death and efforts to keep his legacy alive; voting rights restored to ex-felons in North Carolina; Tibetan plateau could land an observatory.

An Afghan interpreter for U.S. Coalition forces urges evacuation of Afghans; women's rights advocate Zainab Salbi on the future for Afghan women; vaccine passport history with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong; Connecticut's statewide use-of-force training; and Alaskan whales get a breather from tourists.