The Miss America competition has announced it will eliminate the swimsuit event from its yearly competition. This week, we talk to four experts about what brought about this move, what it means for Miss America, and what message it sends to young women.

Several high-profile incidents involving how business handle race relations and bias have been in the news recently. This week, we talk to author and former CEO Piyush Patel about how to handle a toxic work culture.

This week we meet a man whose prosthetic arm was inspired by Star Wars, a Los Angeles entrepreneur who takes people on walks, and we visit a gender-neutral store in New York City.

This week we talk to Scott Rosenbaum, the director of a documentary about three legendary blues musicians Sidemen: Long Road to Glory. The trio - Pineptop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, and Hubert Sumlin - played with legendary blues singers Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters and were instrumental in the birth of rock n' roll music.

This week, we meet Shireen Jeejeebhoy, a Canadian woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2000 car crash. Hear how she lost everything -- even herself -- and how she came back with the help of doctors at a Toronto ADD clinic.

This week we talk with University of Massachusetts at Amherst astronomer Mark Heyer. He developed an algorithm that turns the movement of gases in the Milky Way into musical notes. You'll hear that our galaxy is pretty funky.

We've all done it - try to install a new app and it says 'log in with Facebook.' But what happens when you do that? Who gets access to your data? What access are they getting? This week we talk with an expert who works for a company that specializes in IP anonymization and ad blocking about what you might be giving away when you hit that blue button. As the saying goes, if the app is free, you're the product.

This week on American Café we mark national Autism Awareness Month with the stories of two women: One a former Justice Department attorney who had a son with autism and the other a San Francisco area entrepreneur and philanthropist who has written a series of books to help families of those with autism.

This week on VOA's American Café we'll look at how to prevent child and teen sexual abuse. The former team physician for USA Gymnastics, Larry Nassar, was recently sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for assaulting young women on the US and Michigan State gymnastics teams. We talk to an attorney about what parents can do to protect their children from sexual predators.

A new animated film from China, Big Fish Begonia, tells the story of a young girl from a mystical realm who gives away half her lifetime to save a human boy. The film began as a dream and took 12 years to make before opening to success in China. It has opened in the United States this month. American Café talked to its director Xuan Liang.