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Vice president-elect Kamala Harris made history this week when she became the first woman ever to win election on a presidential ticket. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson reports on the path that brought Harris to the second most powerful position in the U.S. government.

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret) is a poetic and intimate film presenting moving testimonials and portraits of five black gay men. They each disclose their HIV-positive status and how they fiercely combat the stigma around the disease. Marlon Riggs died with HIV/AIDS in 1994 and was dedicated to confronting the urgency of the AIDS epidemic in African-American communities and especially among black gay men.

Did Homer’s King Odysseus, the Trojan-horse-designer in the Iliad and the long-suffering wanderer of the Odyssey, really exist? In 1991, Makis Metaxas, a mayor on the Greek island of Kefalonia, finds an ancient Mycenaean tomb. He claims it contains the bones of Odysseus. The discovery is soon embroiled in controversy, and Makis embarks on his own odyssey to convince the world he is right. Distributed by PBS Distribution.

Relying on newly discovered archival footage, memoirs from the fallen, and expert commentary from world-renowned scholars, this program tells the story of World War I: its ace pilots, mine-laying sailors, heroic doughboys, Harlem Hellfighters, and courageous nurses. As the story of trench, chemical, and open warfare unfolds, we come to understand how the first global war transformed American society, leading to the Veterans’ Administration, while also solidifying the country's parochial past.

Ever since George Floyd’s murder by police and the resulting protests, police brutality and Black Lives Matter have been mainstays in the headlines. But while Southside Chicago has worse gun violence statistics than any active war zone of the last two decades, only one in ten murders are solved by police. This program investigates the source of these civilian deaths and explores the role of community in restoring peace and ending the cycle of revenge and retaliation.

NFL football superstar Richard Sherman breaks down the money playbook. You’re adulting now, so adult with Richard Sherman.

B-School is a show with the answers to the questions early and aspiring entrepreneurs need answers to. We’ll feature real entrepreneurs and have them explain things like how they found a co-founder, how they grew an Instagram page to 300k followers in 2 weeks or how they knew when their idea was good enough to quit their job.

Blue Collar White Collar No Collar is a series about the rapid changes occurring in the job landscape and how the 4th Industrial Revolution will change work as we know it. What were once considered “collared” jobs are now evolving, and with it, so are the ways to get these jobs. Careers on the frontiers of the future won’t necessarily rely on traditional education or follow common career pathways. In this show, we’ll feature people working jobs at the edges of this exciting shift, go into how they got there, and unpack the skills necessary to succeed as we step into this next chapter of technological evolution.

When does a new technology become inevitable and all-consuming? Witness the tipping points of the innovation industry and unpack the economics that shaped life as we know it today.

This is a series all about pivoting. It's the surprising stories of the birth of big name companies which have shaped our lives—but started out as a completely different company or product. From YouTube to Twitter and Slack to Shopify, before tech giants like these became household names, they were just a spark of an idea championed by entrepreneurs willing to risk it all.

You have questions, we have answers! Financial expert, Jean Chatzky, is giving quick, practical and jargon-free answers to millennials' most pressing financial questions.

Money makes us do things we wish we didn’t, but why is that? Behavioral economists and neuroscientists decode psychological dynamics resulting from 25 million years of human evolution - all so you can make smarter financial decision. This is Your Brain on Money.

Money makes the world go round…but how? Trying to understand how money works can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Your World on Money is a show that will answer the financial questions people are often too afraid to ask. What are stocks and what exactly are you trading? What is debt and how can you get out of it? What do you need to know before investing in property? Financial and industry experts will give us crash courses on the real world implications money matters have on the world around us and how they directly affect you.

Money makes the world go round… but how? Trying to understand how money works can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Your World on Money is a show that will answer the financial questions people are often too afraid to ask. What are stocks and what exactly are you trading? What is debt and how can you get out of it? What do you need to know before investing in property? Financial and industry experts will give us crash courses on the real world implications money matters have on the world around us and how they directly affect you.