For a black immigrant family from Panama, highly aware of the African-American struggle, the election of Barack Obama seemed impossible. When it happened, it was a moment of profound joy.

His experience of looking out from a beach from Accra, on the other side of the Atlantic ocean, and realizing that he is the first person in his family to see where his ancestors were taken from.

His friends in school said he wasn't American. His mother said his family in Mexico would treat him like a tourist. He wanted to prove everyone wrong.

Horsing around with white friends in a parking lot as a teenager, only one person got singled out.

Mandy struggles to simply listen to patients rather than trying to fix them. Dory, a patient, recalls that ending her pain was one of the best things that ever happened to her. When Mandy finds out that Dory used to be a singer, they sing together to bond while alleviating the hardships of Dory's rehabilitation.

Nicola describes the loss of her independence as she became almost immobile and therefore dependent on others due to her disease. Nurse Mandy wonders from where Nicola found her strength, and is impressed by her ability to keep moving forward. The clip ends with Nicola and Mandy singing "Everybody Hurts" in unison.

Alicia enjoys watching a shopping show on her tv. She then describes how she found out she has cancer and how she dealt with the news with her husband. The clip ends with Alicia singing a sad, lonely song.

Julie says that she expected to only live for a few months, but has lived for two years, and attributes this fortune to her prayers. She bought a house for her and her daughter to give her daughter some financial security when she dies, and tells her daughter to live like she could die tomorrow.

Ian grapples with the effects of his Multiple Sclerosis on his life and his relationships, and his struggle to keep moving forward despite the pain. He then recounts how he became a DJ at the age of 15 and found his wife, a "disco diva" named Moyra. Moyra and Ian now have trouble with the costs of his disease.

Mandy, a nurse at the Hospice, discusses how she originally wanted to practice as a "very technical" nurse, by using high tech procedures to keep people alive. Now, she has realized that she prefers to confront patients without electronics and get to know them as real people. She then confronts how unpredictable treatments are, and wonders how patients under these treatments live.

Filmmaker Amy Hardie discusses the making of POV documentary Seven Songs for a Long Life.

Hospice care is rarely associated with singing and laughter, but at Strathcarron it's different. At this remarkable Scottish hospice center, patients face pain, uncertainty and the possibility of life's end with song and humor.

Orchestras made clever changes to deal with centuries-old bias. If an orchestra can do it, there's hope for all of us — but a final word of caution.

What is implicit bias? NYT/POV's Saleem Reshamwala unscrews the lid on the unfair effects of our subconscious.

Need justification for taking breaks and naps? Turns out those activities could make us less biased toward people of other races.

Signs of implicit bias lurk within our inboxes, social networks and the patterns of our daily lives. Looking at our own data can help us change our ways.

Here’s a paradox: The harder we try to act "super normal" around people of other races, the more likely we'll be super weird. Is there a way around this? Hint: Yes.

To reduce implicit bias, build friendships that cross the racial divide. Sound too easy to actually work? Researchers beg to differ. Worst case, you have more friends.

A Native American's decades-long struggle against a baseball team's racist logo.

A family in Harlem keeps racist objects to remember old stories – and to build new ones.