For decades, African American comedian and filmmaker Robin Cloud had heard tales about the “Nebraska cousins,” a branch of her family that moved away from the East Coast to pass for white in the rural Midwest. In this six-part series, Cloud attempts to find and understand the motives of the relatives who left everything and everyone else behind, and documents how their progeny grapple with the revelation that they aren’t who they thought they were.

An interview with Robin Cloud, creator of the series Passing, about connecting with a branch of her family that had become completely disconnected—both from their relatives and their own history.

The uneasy existence of being black and passing for white.

Getting your first summer job is a timeless rite of passage—one which fewer and fewer high schoolers are taking on. But for these teens, their paychecks aren’t the only valuable part of their working experience.

They got their shot on Broadway—and they blew it. Ten years later, Nick Blaemire and James Gardiner look back at what it means to fail so publicly, and whether their dream was really all it was cracked up to be.

The Every 15 Minutes program stages gruesome car crashes and tearful mock funerals at high schools across California to deter teens from drunk driving. But does it work?

For more than 40 years, Jack Frech has been taking journalists around Athens County, Ohio, showing them how people live in one of the poorest counties in the nation. Now, he says, it’s time to stop.