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As anti-Muslim rhetoric has increased, members of the Muslim Community of Western Suburbs in Canton, Michigan are becoming more politically involve...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 3
From civil disobedience to civic accountability, youth that can’t vote are making the voice of the Latino community heard in local politics and at ...
Bought by WDBM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 10:06
- Purchases: 3
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview with Bloomington Police Chief Mike Diekhoff.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 08:24
One telling thing Sheriff Jim Kennedy says about the individual officers in the policing situation, “We laugh among ourselves, you can send some of...
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 59:39
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 11:33
From the Department of Poetic Justice, here at The River Is Wide , we offer an original composition, titled 'LIMBO'. There is such confusion and f...
- Added: Apr 02, 2016
- Length: 03:25
Producer Dred-Scott Keyes interviews film maker Dagmar Schultz about her film "Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992"
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll take you on a trip through LA’s garment district, notorious for sweatshop conditions, abuse, and the outrig...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
After serving almost three decades as on the Board of Monroe County Commissioners, she announced she won't be running for reelection
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 08:43
From: Julio Gonzalez
Segment 1: Terry Orbuch/relationship expert Segment 2 and 3:John Schwartz/gay son Segment 4: Dave Wasserman/elections Segment 5: Bob Vetere/pamper...
- Added: Jan 31, 2016
- Length: 54:00
An Argentinean Orthodox Jew, going under the pseudonym Gustavo Friedman, tells his story and the aftermath of the deadliest terrorist attack in all...
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 05:10
The local chapter of the League of Women Voters hosted a conversation with
local legislators over the weekend.
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 07:54
“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangba...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? Law enforcement agencies around the ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The body of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe rests in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania...but some members of his family say he should be dug up...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 24:46
- Purchases: 2
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...
Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Ever committed a crime? Were you caught? Arrested? Maybe not. Between a quarter and a third of all adults in America were caught and arrested. Now ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 14:44
- Purchases: 2
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:40
At disciplinary hearings in prison, inmates are not guaranteed the right to an attorney. In fact, they aren’t allowed to have one at all.
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 21:22
“He told me she had stolen about 40 thousand dollars from people. Then he told me I should lawyer up."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 12:32
- Purchases: 1
Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 04:02
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
"She called us on the phone and said, 'You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'"
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 1
