Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.

On the perils and rewards of feminism.

Spending the summer as a tour guide on a glacier.

A daughter remembers her father’s glass eye.

The story of Ota Benga, captured in the Congo, displayed at the World’s Fair, and brought to the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”

One man describes his family’s tradition of delivering rhyming couplets at celebrations.

“We still have retrograde ideas about how pregnant women should feel, and we need to revise them — not only for depressed women but for all women.”

“What I do is not magical realism. I do realistic magic. Look, whenever someone does something new, people have to compare it with things they already know. So even if you innovate, you end up being connected to the past. When I began making movies people linked me to Fellini or Buñuel. Now new filmmakers are called ‘jodorowskian.’”

After a member of the Church of Wells abruptly left the group (which may or may not be a cult), many held out hope. A week later she went back, and the church’s elders are eager to explain why.

Previously: Sinners in the Hands

Growing up among the tall waves and schoolyard bullies of Hawaii.

The Cleveland police are still adamant that they did nothing wrong in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

On touring America and the culture of trailer parks in the early 1950s.

A support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

A mortuary employee surveys her scene.

A controversial effort divides students by race in order to combat racism.

In an upscale Denver condo, twice-a-month they convened from Thursday to Sunday with 95 percent-pure Shabu.

Dave Wilsey was among the American soldiers who liberated Dachau. The letters he left behind complicate the story.

Paul Gayle wants to raise his daughter, but he needs a job and a home. What he gets is 16 lessons on fatherhood from the Obama administration.

How one community is struggling to understand and respond to a cluster of suicides.

On two gay men in Pennsylvania who tried, and failed, to build a commune of their own.

On the stupid things people say to the elderly.

The 1826 kidnapping – and murder – that begat America’s obsession with Masons.

Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.

Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.