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.

Racist objects are a source of income, and difficulty, at a family auction house in Texas.

Here's why 'the working class vote', 'women voters', 'latinos' and a few other terms you heard in campaign lead-up didn't really turn out to mean what people may have thought.

Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classroom as the students discover the differences between the lives they were born into and the lives they dream of leading.

The students practice English presentations for their new pen pals in Nebraska. An elder remarks on the enormous progress the town has because of girls' education.

Rihala enrolls at school as the oldest student, but family issues and unpleasant marriage prospects cloud her future.

Razia meets with the mayor and town elders to discuss the benefits of the school. Fatema assures Pashtana that she will enroll her in school despite her uncle's disapproval.

Despite community resistance and threats of attack, Razia is committed to opening her girls' school, and the girls are determined to improve their futures.

When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has cancer, he and his wife begin documenting their emotional journey with a poetic video game.