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Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:53
Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:27
Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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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 ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Episode 5: A Mental Health Journey
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Several youth describe their strategies and therapies for mental wellness. Powerful and helpful recovery stories for all ages.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hour 2: Disability during the pandemic and Two stories of Surviving Trauma
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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(A compilation of Episodes 3 and 4 for stations desiring a 59 minute version.) First half: Youth with disabilities had great challenges with onlin...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hour 1: The Pandemic and After
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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A compilation of Episodes 1 and 2 for stations desiring a 59 minute version.) 1) Youth experienced challenges on their mental health during the pa...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: World On Fire
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Social activism by youth during and after the pandemic helped their mental wellness.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
PRESENT meets PAST at Burning Man
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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Most Burners don’t know much about the history of the land or its original inhabitants: the Pyramid Lake Paiute. Reporter Lucy Kang enlightens them.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:09
Part Three: Molly McKenzie
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Guatemalan Connections
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Guatemalan Connections Part Three: Molly McKenzie was adopted from Guatemala in 1992 by her two moms, now retired navy captains who provided her wi...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 19:47
Part Two: Jacob Wheeler
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Guatemalan Connections
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Jacob Wheeler talks about his book Between Light and Shadow and some of the nuances of Guatemalan adoptions. (English, 14 min.)

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 14:20
Part One: Iryiel Cochran
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Guatemalan Connections
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Iryiel Cochran shares her story about growing up as a Guatemalan adoptee in northern Colorado and searching for biological family in Quetzaltenango...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
Reset (episode 7)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Explore what it looks like to fragment a forest, to drain a river, and to make a city unsafe for the humans that live there. Travel from the Black ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 44:41
  • Purchases: 2
Lessons from the Fires
From: Megan Botel
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Each year, the numbers of fire refugees grow in California. Fire historians say we've reached the era of Fire Apocalypse. As fire season approaches...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 2
4 : STAR TREK
From: matthew schneeman
Series: AT NiGHT I FLY
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Spoon talks about his love for Star Trek and the day his TV was taken from him. Matthew visits a Star Trek fan club.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
2 : PAWS FOR LiFE
From: matthew schneeman
Series: AT NiGHT I FLY
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Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
Dear Poppy
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Caption: Melissa Dueñas' dad in Donovan Correctional Facility in the early 1990s., Credit: Photo courtesy of Melissa Dueñas
Melissa Dueñas’ dad went in-and-out of jail and prison her whole life. Whenever he was locked up, they would keep in touch by writing letters. She ...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 04, 2019
  • Length: 16:19
  • Purchases: 1
Joy Harjo: Writing the Southwest
From: David Dunaway
Caption: Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate
The work and life of Joy Harjo, newly-named U.S. Poet Laureate, explores growing up between cultures, part Muskogee-Creek and Cherokee, part Irish ...

Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:23
  • Purchases: 2
A Shortcut Through 2018-Part Two
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Stan Lee, Credit: Drew Friedman
More looking back through the past year with tributes, tragedies, traitors and comedians in another remix from the cutting room floor of 2018

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:38
  • Purchases: 2
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
California Innocence Project: A Bad ID Leads to Wrongful Conviction - episode 3
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:59
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

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


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
City Of Dreamers - Part 3
From: Littleglobe
Series: Audio Revolution!
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City of Dreamers explores the lives of young people and immigrant families from Santa Fe’s South Side. First presented live, on stage at the Lensic...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
Why We Root: The 2013 Red Sox After the Boston Marathon Bombing
From: Eric Mack
Series: Why We Root
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On this Why We Root, a story of a classic American sports town and the season that started with tragedy but ended with a championship. We’ll recall...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gratitude Across Borders
From: ZUMIX Radio
Series: Radio Across Borders
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A Thanksgiving radio show created by English Language Learning students at East Boston High School.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 34:13
Her Speech
From: Jamie Courville
Series: Squirrels Stories
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Victoria is trying to get her life back after the removal of a brain tumor. She is getting a little better every day.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:58