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Airing 5 p.m. Friday: Canada's conversion therapy ban took effect in January. Why no national ban in the US? Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy doesn’t work and severely harms LGBTQ people, the practice continues.

The wars in Guatemala during the 1980s and 90s killed close to 200-thousand Guatemalans. The conflict wounded many people in body and spirit — among them, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a U.S.-born Catholic missionary who survived torture.

With a promise of "1,000 songs in your pocket," the iPod was an irresistible product in 2001.

In a fascinating new study, a group of economists measures the impact of immigrants on American innovation.

When the parents went to the donation center, they asked for embryos that had been waiting the longest. Experts say embryos can be frozen almost indefinitely — as long as they're stored correctly.

NPR's Ari Shapiro provides an update on the condition of the American twins evacuated from Ukraine earlier this week. The two were too small to move in the days after they were born into a war zone.

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson discuss how their book, 1619 Project's Born on the Water, helps young Black children feel affirmed in where they come from.

Ibrahim Songne overcame local prejudice to gain success in Italy with his pizza joint and a spot on a list of top 50 global pizza joints. He's now made a special pizza in honor of ... Goats and Soda!

Authors Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson discuss the importance of teaching young people about the history of slavery and racism in America with honesty and respect.

"If somebody needed help — Granny was going. Black and whites alike, it made no difference to her," Mary Othella Burnette says of her late grandmother, a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Ocean Vuong's second poetry collection, Time is a Mother, grapples with time and its impermanence following his mother's death in 2019.

Scott Simon speaks to Erik Grice and Troy Snaterse, members of the alt-country duo Altameda, which has just come out with a new album, "Born Losers."