The largest oil spill in American history captivated the public's attention for the entire summer of 2010. Authorities told a story of a herculean response effort that made shorelines safe and avoided a worst case scenario. Was that really the whole picture?

This season of Strangeland explores the murder of Haing Ngor in LA’s Chinatown. As a genocide survivor, political activist, and Hollywood star, Ngor’s death shook the Cambodian community and left many feeling uncertain when an unexpected conviction was secured. We re-investigate the LAPD case and trace Haing Ngor’s journey from survivor to victim to try to uncover the truth. Was the LAPD’s arrest and subsequent convictions just, or could the city’s culture of policing at the time have tainted the investigation causing justice to be lost in translation?

Maple Shade, New Jersey is a quaint Philadelphia suburb – its slogan is “Nice Town, Friendly People.” But on the evening of March 23, 2017, an Indian tech worker, Sasikala Narra, and her six-year-old son, Anish, were found brutally murdered in their apartment. Police questioned the husband and father, Hanumantha, but his alibi checked out. Now, six years later, the case is still unsolved, and authorities won’t talk about it. So, we conduct our own investigation – discovering new leads, potential motives, and questionable behavior by local authorities.

In addition to her work as an international recording artist and civil rights activist, the Queen of Gospel entered the restaurant business in the late 1960s with Mahalia Jackson’s Glori-fried Chicken.

As the Mardi Gras season draws near, In the Studio goes behind the scenes with the Krewe of Rex, New Orleans’s oldest parading organization, to see how the masters of carnival create their mobile sculptures.

Yuri Herrera is a political scientist, editor, and prize-winning novelist, considered one of the best contemporary Mexican writers. When we meet him he's starting his new novel, the story of Benito Juarez, the first President of Mexico of indigenous origin. What's less known about him is that he was exiled to New Orleans in 1853. We join Yuri as he walks the streets Benito would have walked, searching for the elusive threads of Juarez’s life.

After storms and other climate disasters, legions of workers appear overnight to cover blown-out buildings with construction tarps, rip out ruined walls and floors, and start putting cities back together. They are largely migrants, predominantly undocumented, and lack basic protections for construction work. Their efforts are critical in an era of increasing climate-related disasters, but the workers are subject to hazards including accidents, wage theft, and deportation.

Before the Sex Pistols broke in England, or the Ramones made a name for themselves, the Gizmos were bumming around Bloomington, Ind., trying to revive rock'n'roll's primitive animal with a stripped-down, poppy sound that would later be branded punk.

When Rhonda Guidry was a senior in high school, she and a friend made a vow to never marry somebody from Vermilion Parish - they wanted to move on from the life they knew.

But Rhonda Guidry did end up marrying someone from this rural stretch of coastal Louisiana farming communities - Shannon Guidry, her husband of 33 years.

In the early 1970s, two hundred hippies from San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood resettled in rural Tennessee. They founded a vegetarian commune and agricultural operation called The Farm.

Menudo, sopes, gorditas, tortas, gringas, huaraches, mangonadas, and alambres are just some of the specialty dishes of De Queen, Arkansas, population 6,600.

“Girl Give Me Love” has long captivated garage rock crate diggers. It was the lone single released by The Little Bits, a group of pre-teen punks from Jennings, Louisiana. Fewer than 500 copies were pressed when the 45 came out in 1967. But it’s not the rarity of the record that has earned it so many admirers over the years; it's the rarified sound.

“‘Sockin’ Soul’ was made the same way chitlins and turnip greens are made. We didn’t have the best recording equipment at the time, so we had to improvise to fatten up the sound. We created the reverb by recording in the bathroom and put phone books in the bass drums to give it that bump.”

Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s Appalachian-themed amusement park, draws millions of country fans and thrill-seekers to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, every year. Producer Betsy Shepherd goes on a Dollywood tasting tour to gain insight into her musical idol and experience Dolly’s vision of the mountain South.

Delta blues found its voice and audience on the airwaves of KFFA’s King Biscuit Time, a daily broadcast out of Helena, Arkansas. Bluesmen like Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Lockwood Jr., who would go on to become legends, interspersed their own songs with advertising jingles. King Biscuit Time, which launched in 1941, gave unprecedented exposure to African American musicians while selling everyday grocery staples like flour and cornmeal. And it’s still on the air.

"I used to see my grandma knit when I was younger, but I thought it was for old people," says Chuck of the Naptown Knitters. "Then I got locked up and I saw all these dudes doing it, and I said why not give it a try?"

Naptown Knitters is a knitting circle that meets weekly within the walls of Indianapolis Re-entry Educational Facility, or IREF, a minimum-security men's prison.

Before the coronavirus, people would line the block waiting to get a table at Willie Mae’s Scotch House, a Treme neighborhood restaurant that serves world-famous fried chicken. Now the block sits quiet — the dining room closed indefinitely and line-forming a dangerous act.

Dozens of people line up outside the Broadmoor Church in New Orleans for the Broadmoor Improvement Association’s monthly food pantry. Standing six feet apart, participants wait their turn to show their ID in exchange for a box of groceries.

Steven is an addict. He has been off of drugs for six years now, and says he maintains his sobriety by regularly attending a Narcotics Anonymous support group.