Presents a biography on the life and career of cancer researcher, Mathilde Krim, who was among the first in the United States in the early 1980s to recognize the deadly AIDS virus and chronicles how she made the government and the country aware of its dangers.
Presents the life and accomplishments of the Mexican painter, from her early marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera, to her first success as a painter, to her emergence as a world famous artist.
Profiles Cornel West, a scholar in African-American Studies who has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and written many books including "Race Matters.".
A biography of the Mexican painter who survived a near-fatal bus accident at the age of eighteen, learned to paint as a form of therapy, had a stormy marriage with Diego Rivera, and became a world-famous artist.
Profiles the life and career of Sammy Sosa including his childhood in the Dominican Republic, his time with the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles, and his record-breaking 1998 season.
Examines the life and leadership of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, charting his rise from poverty in the streets of Sao Paulo to the first working-class president of Brazil, elected to office in 2002.
