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Is San Francisco a Sanctuary When You Don’t Have Housing?

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

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...

Unheard: The Plight of Mayans Struggling with Addiction in SF

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

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...

Season 1, Episode 30 - 'Sustainable Transportation' feat Giulia Marzetti

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

What can we do to make transporting humans more sustainable?

Bought by WOJB and KTRT RADIO INC

Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid

From: KSFP

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...

Group Helps Asian American Communities Feel Safe

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

Three years ago, when violence against Asian Americans spiked, local organizations took action to improve public safety. One group, the Coalition f...

Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: Anti-smoking ad campaign, Credit: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...

All the Noise Surrounding Electric Cars

From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour

Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

Saving Minnesotan Old Time Music

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: "Clawhammer" Mike Sawyer, Credit: Britta Greene and James Napoli

Mike Sawyer is on a mission to uncover the roots of Upper Midwest folk music and keep it alive for future generations.

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

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

The Rise of the New Labor Movement

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient

On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...

Bought by WUWM, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer

But Next Time Part 3: The Fight for Fair Housing in the Face of Climate Change (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: 12 Moms Initiative member Jamie describes water and mold damage to her home at the Coppertree Village Apartments to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition during a bus tour hosted by Houston's housing justice organizers., Credit: Leah Mahan

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

But Next Time Part 2: Language Justice and the Road to Recovery After Disaster (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: But Next Time hosts Rose and Chrishelle pose for a photo with members of indigenous language radio show, Radio Autóctona Indigenista on KBBF., Credit: Leah Mahan

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

J Reuben Appelman discusses "While Idaho Slept"

From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, tho...

The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns

From: Lester Graham

Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain

2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU

Why Black San Franciscans Are Fighting for Reparations

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

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

This Asian American Life

From: Mateo Schimpf

How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

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

Decarbonize Based on Need, Not LEED

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Chicago bungalow, Credit: Jim Roberts

Research is finding the answers Chicago needs to jumpstart wide scale equitable home electrification

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City

Keepers of the Flame

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

Calamity in Philadelphia

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

Origin Stories

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

How race was invented to support racism.

Out of Gas, In with Justice

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City

Homegrown Community Owned Solar

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Olympia Community Solar's millennial solar powerhouse, Credit: Olympia Community Solar

We don't have to wait for utilities or for-profit solar developers to expand solar power in our communities and, if we do it right, we can keep the...

Bought by KZYX, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, and WFHB

A Garment Worker Victory

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

California garment workers organize and win passage of a state law that holds fashion brands responsible for unpaid wages.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KZYX, and RadioStPete Florida

EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR

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