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Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips examines the impact of technology on one of America’s favorite pastimes. 

Award-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt’s 2011 book, "The Eichmann Trial," examines not only the trial but also the dramatic effect that Holocaust survivors’ courtroom testimony had on a world that until then had commemorated the Holocaust without fully understanding what the victims and survivors actually had experienced.

Over his 15 years as a journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas interviewed some of the most accomplished people in America, and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech. For 14 of those years, he hid the fact that he is an undocumented immigrant, "living in a different kind of reality, relying on a sort of 21st-century underground railroad of supporters, people who took an interest in my future and took risks for me." 

Sylvia Hood Washington discusses her pioneering book, "Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954," which documents how generations of Chicago's poor, working class and ethnic minority residents have suffered disproportionately from the harmful effects of pollution.

Four of the region’s foremost corporate leaders discuss the economic landscape and how our workforce can succeed in it.

Elmhurst College is a small liberal arts school in the western suburbs of Chicgo. In 2008 the college made history by choosing S. Alan Ray to be president. Ray is a member of the Cherokee Nation. He’s the first Cherokee president of a non-tribal college in the U.S. For Race: Out Loud  we look at how Ray’s heritage is changing Elmhurst College.  

One of the country’s oldest outdoor murals covers a storefront on Chicago’s Northwest Side. People who care about the 40-year-old painting are finishing a facelift. The mural restoration is doing more than brightening up a gritty stretch of North Avenue.