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Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

Sonnet for What Will Be Well

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook

Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

What’s Wrong, America? A 2024 Election Special

From: Mateo Schimpf

Turns out Americans don't feel great about the direction of our country. But what exactly are they upset about, and are things as bad as they think?

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge

The Man in the President's Limo

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB

Documenting an Invisible Island

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

LaMont Dottin

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

Hisako Hasegawa

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

Cesar Irizarry

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

Angel Garcia

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

Noah Creshevsky

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...

Neil Harris Jr.

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

Open Spaces, October 20, 2023

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Open Spaces

Today on the show, the Endangered Species Act became law 50 years ago. Since then, hundreds of species have been put under its protection. Wyoming ...

Oceans of Energy

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...

Assistant Professor, Domestic Violence Survivor Finds Hope In Her Journey and Academic Research

From: KRCL

Caption: Jennifer Andrus, Ph.D., Credit: University of Utah

2-way interview with Dr. Jenny Andrus about her study of domestic violence.

Poisonous Legacies

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg

After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

Juneteenth We Reflect on Black History in Utah

From: KRCL

Celebrating Juneteenth, Robert Burch, Founder & Executive Director of the Sema Hadithi Foundation shares his take on the holiday and ways his organ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

Queens Memory Podcast- Seeing Signs

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña

This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN

IE: Inside Europe, 5/19/2023

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW

This week on the show: It's gloves off as Turkey's presidential election goes to a second round. Hopes fade of finding those still missing months...

Self Defense Workshop Aims to Empower AAPI Community

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Caption: Workshop participant Katie Hae Leo (left) practices self-defense at Taiko Arts Midwest, Credit: Sheila Regan

Violence against Asian Americans in the United States have been on the rise over the last few years. In response to this trend, the non-profit Taik...

70 Million: Tribal Land, Banishment, Rehabilitation and Re-Entry

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

This week on Making Contact - with assistance from our podcast partners, 70 million - we head to the state of Alaska, where rising violent crime an...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Cryptomania: How Cryptocurrency Can Save—or Destabilize—a Country

From: Mateo Schimpf

This week, we take a deep dive into the global world of cryptocurrency.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge

Boris Out, Liz In: The Global Impact of the British Election

From: Mateo Schimpf

On this week’s episode, we break down the global implications of new British leadership and then travel to Northern Ireland, where the fate of a B...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Finding Phones for People in Need

From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Finding Home: Montana's Housing Crisis

Without phones, people who need housing and services have less of a chance of getting help. In Missoula, Montana, two programs that aim to close th...

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