January 14, 2024 - More than 50,000 Americans took their own lives in 2023, the nation’s highest yearly rate of suicide on record. Farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population, according to the National Rural Health Association. Special correspondent Megan Thompson reports from Wisconsin on the burden farmers often deal with and what’s being done to help them.
March 26, 2022 - A blockbuster exhibition in the early 2000’s made the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, famous for their quilts. Now, new opportunities are helping them financially too. With support from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, the quilters now have sold-out Etsy shops and collaborations with high-profile fashion designers. Megan Thompson reports.