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In the second installment of the series on 1967's "Summer of Soul," pop culture expert Mark Anthony Neal discusses four soul and R&B hits from the historic summer. Among other things, the music helped mold a new identity for black men in America.

The documentary Ghosts of Cite Soleil takes viewers through a Haitian slum overrun with political gangs. The film's director, Asger Leth, followed two rival leaders and brothers during the months leading up to the 2004 exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Critic Maureen Corrigan is back with summer-reading suggestions from the nonfiction shelf — titles from Susan Richards Shreve, Jon Katz and Juliet Nicolson.

Michael Moore's health-care polemic comes complete with the usual grandstanding — most of it very funny — but in this instance, all that sizzle is selling some serious steak. (Recommended)

The Sergio Leone Anthology includes A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Duck, You Sucker.

Michael Winterbottom's movie, based on Mariane Pearl's memoir of her slain journalist husband; knowing how this harrowing story played out in real life doesn't diminish its power in the slightest.

Next Tuesday, Black Entertainment Television rolls out the red carpet for its 2007 Awards. Emmy Award-winning journalist and BET producer, P. Frank Williams, gives us the low-down.

Hollywood puts the planet in peril again with Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer. The comics were hip enough to last for more than 40 years, but the movie treatment is far from must-see cinema.

19th-century Harvard students needed botanical models. They turned to a pair of glass artists who specialized in invertebrate zoology. The results, on display at the Corning Museum of Glass this summer, are so lifelike that they've inspired poets and novelists.

Fresh Air's book critic suggests the aptly titled 'Summer Reading,' by Hilma Wolitzer; 'Be Near Me,' by Andrew O'Hagan, and the much-lauded 'On Chesil Beach,' by Ian McEwan.