Alexandra Codina's documentary, "Paper Children: Inside America's Overwhelmed Asylum System" is a finely detailed portrait of a family, a film that accompanies four children going through the years-long process of seeking asylum.

Thirty-three men between George Washington and John F. Kennedy served as U.S. president. Until Kennedy, all were white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men. It took 172 years for a Catholic to win the presidency.

Before she became an Adrian Dominican sister at age 50, Elise García already lived a life engaged in social justice issues, advocacy and nonprofits. Now at 70, she is the president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

When the first COVID-19 cases hit Brazil in March, the government agency in charge of protecting the country's Indigenous peoples, the National Indigenous Foundation, ordered all civilians to leave the Indigenous reservations. Only essential workers, such as health care personnel and those involved in food distribution, could remain.

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