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Kuwaiti trans woman got 2 years in prison for 'impersonating the opposite sex'

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with activist Badriyyah Alsabah about Maha Al-Mutairi, a trans woman in Kuwait who was sentenced to two years in prison for "impersonating the opposite sex."

A man rides a skateboard holding an American flag.

INDEPENDENT LENS: A Day In The Life Of America

Stream or tune in Monday, Jan. 11, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Fred Rogers is memorialized in his role as Mister Rogers in a new statue unveiled by Rollins College in Florida.

Mister Rogers is surrounded by kids in a Florida college's new statue

"My hope is that this piece will bring joy and inspiration to many people, just as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood did for generations," sculptor Paul Day says.

Patricia Maginnis holds her <em>Abortees' Songbook</em> and stands next to a bulletin board full of abortion information. The early abortion rights advocate, pictured here in 1970, died earlier this year.

Inside Pat Maginnis' radical (and underground) tactics on abortion rights in the '60s

Pat Maginnis was out in front of the fight to legalize abortion in the 1960s, but few know her name and the lengths she went to.

Tim Shantz conducts Luminous Voices' first car concert on Oct. 4, 2020.

Car Concerts Offer Choirs A Way To Rehearse And Perform

This car choir solution is one that accomplished baritone David Newman came up with so that ensembles could sing "together." The method uses microphones, a mixer, an FM transmitter and car radios.

"Some of the work is deliberately remaining outside of the structure," says musician and advocate Lilli Lewis of the efforts of Black musicians to make it in country and roots music industries. "We want to center different values and it's really difficult to do that from inside." Lewis just released a new album called <em>Americana.</em>

New roots: Black musicians and advocates are forging coalitions outside the system

The mostly white country and folk music industries remain frustratingly difficult for Black musicians to enter. During one of Nashville's biggest events, one group envisioned a new pathway in.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg In Conversation

Stream now or tune in Monday, Sept. 21, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

President Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Baltimore Center Stage Pearlstone Theater, on Oct. 21. When asked whether the U.S. would protect Taiwan if China attacked, he said the U.S. has a "commitment" to do so.

Would the U.S. defend Taiwan if China invades? Biden said yes. But it's complicated

President Biden has said the U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan, but Washington has traditionally stayed strategically ambiguous. Here's why.

Andrew Cuomo, seen last year during a news conference, now faces a criminal complaint. It charges the former New York governor with a misdemeanor sex crime.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces a misdemeanor sex charge

Cuomo was forced from office after nearly a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. He now faces a criminal complaint alleging he forcibly touched a female staff member.

10 embassies call for Turkey to release imprisoned civil society leader Osman Kavala

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to expel 10 Western ambassadors, including the U.S., because they have criticized the detention of civil society advocate Osman Kavala.

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