June 21, 2021

Antwaun Sargent plans to curate exhibitions devoted to Black artists and his first show does just that. "Social Works" looks at what he calls "notions of Black space," works of art that he says are "doing more than just sitting quietly on a wall." He joined Christiane from New York.

Hakeem Oluseyi grew up in some of the roughest American neighborhoods. His father was a drug dealer and his mother, pregnant at 16, dropped out of high school. Oluseyi might have followed their lead. Instead, he became a world-renowned astrophysicist. His new memoir is called "A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars." He tells Hari how he beat the odds.

One little girl, one big hope: That is the story of "The Walk." It's all about little Amal, a young refugee girl in the form of a giant puppet, who travels from Turkey to the U.K. in search of her mother. Little Amal transcends borders and politics as part of a traveling festival with a powerful humanitarian message: "Don't forget us." "The Walk" is directed by David Lan.

Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative cleric hand-picked by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, will take office in August. At his first press conference, Raisi called on the United States to rejoin the 2015 nuclear agreement from which former President Trump withdrew.