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Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 29:30
The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area.
That...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 29:30
The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
Three years ago, when violence against Asian Americans spiked, local organizations took action to improve public safety. One group, the Coalition f...
- Added: Mar 28, 2024
- Length: 16:17
Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Today in Houston, Texas we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for yea...
Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW
- Added: Jun 15, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
Social media is not fundamentally a source of information or a competition of ideas, but a competition of identities.
With that and other provoca...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 1
New York City has been trying to improve diversity in its schools for years. But lawmakers, parents, teachers and students disagree about how to do...
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 26:40
It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 24:46
- Purchases: 2
This series explores how communities are fighting the fossil fuel industry's push for fracked gas infrastructure projects in Washington and Oregon....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This 6-minute sampler provides a taste of the history, literature, and legacy of Route 66 as discussed in the 3-hour-long radio documentary series ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:18
“Illuminating.” @hollywoodreporter Watch @JustVisionMedia’s #NailaandtheUprising on @PBS March 26, 9 pm ET, as part of the acclaimed series @WomenW...
- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 47:47
A history and philosophy of the cover song in the rock music tradition, and how it contrasts with the classical music tradition.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 47:28
(9/4/2017) As more schools begin to confront their participation in slavery, they also consider how to make amends.
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
The Penobscot Nation lives on the river that shares their name. Just upstream from their island reservation is Juniper Ridge, Maine’s largest landf...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR
- Added: Jul 23, 2017
- Length: 13:04
- Purchases: 2
When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 28, 2015
- Length: 24:26
- Purchases: 1
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 20:03
- Purchases: 3
On this first program we look at the legacy of one of the most important American diplomats in the post cold war era - Richard C. Holbrooke
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 52:36
Graphics in video games are undoubtedly one of the most talked topics in gaming. By speaking with Dr. Dennis Woytek, I hope to give the audience a ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2014
- Length: 07:56
The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 08:12
- Purchases: 1
A documentary that takes an in depth look at how natural resource management practices are impacting the Karuk tribal ancestral territory.
- Added: Sep 09, 2012
- Length: 48:38
Our country is getting less public, and our universities are no exception. But what does "public" mean? And why does it matter? This surprising fo...
Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2011
- Length: 59:36
- Purchases: 1
