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Kara Walker is a controversial artist known best for her large black-and-white silhouettes that deal with issues of racism, slavery, sex and liberation. She's received plenty of flack for it. Farai Chideya visits the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to talk with Walker about her exhibition.

A seemingly perfect bank heist goes wrong when thieves in London are overheard on ham radio. Based (loosely) on a real-life 1971 robbery, the film's an amusingly detailed, pleasantly plausible fiction.

Fresh Air's jazz critic reviews Mark Miller's High Hat, Trumpet, and Rhythm: The Life and Music of Valaida Snow. It's a biography of jazz singer and musician Valaida Snow, aka "Little Louis."

Photographer Kevin Connolly was born without legs and was used to being gawked at. Then he started gawking back -- with a camera.

A small group of Jews, held in a Nazi concentration camp, are spared their lives — as long as they work on a massive counterfeit operation. Based on true story, and nominated for an Oscar.

The legendary Chicago journalist found stories in places most reporters looked away from. Now his son has edited an anthology of his late father's work, called The People Are The News: Grant Pick's Chicago Stories.

Director Brett Morgen joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to discuss his new film, Chicago 10. The film mixes trial footage and animation to tell the story of the "Chicago 8" — protesters held accountable for violence that erupted with police outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968.

Forty years ago, another presidential race was focused on an unpopular war. The 1968 Chicago convention riots — and the "Chicago Seven" tried in their wake — are the subject of an unorthodox documentary.

Toy designers Steve Ross and Jason Geyers uncovered a treasure trove of never released Star Wars accessories, from the Jabba the Hutt bean bag chair to the Death Star grill.

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are rumored to be thinking about adoption, and they are said to be looking overseas for their family's newest addition. Newsweek national correspondent Allison Samuels has the scoop on that and more.