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Airs Friday, March 18, 2016 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Cocoa is unusually susceptible to disease. Every year, a third of the crop is destroyed, even as the appetite for chocolate grows. That's why the world needs the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre.

Leonard Nimoy, world famous to "Star Trek" fans through a beloved cult TV series and a half-dozen films as the pointy-eared, purely logical science officer Mr. Spock, has died. He was 83.

Government regulators have approved the first genetically modified apples, which don't turn brown when you cut them open. But planting these trees will be a gamble since consumers may not want them.

Government regulators have approved the first genetically modified apples, which don't turn brown when you cut them open. But planting these trees will be a gamble since consumers may not want them.

Courir de Mardi Gras is an old tradition in rural Louisiana. From early morning on, costumed revelers go house to house, drinking, singing and collecting ingredients for a big ole pot of gumbo.

Friday, Aug. 4, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + Encore Monday, Aug. 7 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Romp through 1930s New Orleans with the Vaud and the Villains! Their 19-piece band performance breathes new life into vintage New Orleans jazz, R&B and gospel soul music -- it’s all part concert, part revival show, part Americana Noire, part Moulin Rouge! Listen in on favorites “Going Back to Louisiana,” “It’s a Sin,” “Take My Hand,” and more.

Gabrielle Emanuel, a first-time author, sets out to write a culturally appropriate book for children in Mali — and learns a lot about how words and pictures go together to tell a story.

How the class divide is widened by gaps in counseling kids for college.