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The World Against the Pandemic
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2020
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A piece by Darkendra Donner. My piece is about the complications everyone might have with going to school this fall. My interviewees will express t...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:47
“What does ‘Protesting’ Mean to Someone in this Current Moment?”
From: Jed Alexander
Caption: BLM rally in North Hollywood, Credit: Jed Alexander
Even in complicated times, we tend to forget the simplicity of, “why we protest” even if the issue is a no-brainer or has complicated edges. We kno...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 07:34
How are the record number of people returning from Louisiana prisons making their way in the world?
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 14 Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:21
What does "adult" mean in the eyes of the law? In Louisiana, many work to change the answer.
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 11 The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
A New Orleans rabbi and her congregants are starting new conversations about mass incarceration
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 7 Congregants at a New Orleans synagogue study and educate themselves about mass incarceration and form bonds with formerly inca...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
This Louisiana mother waits, and paints, and strives to free her son
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 6 What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints. She...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
If you pass through New Orleans courts, innocent or not, you still have to pay
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 4 The way our criminal justice system works, there’s a significant cost to just being accused of a crime. Innocent or not, one w...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
With so many homeless caught up in the criminal legal system, New Orleans holds court at a shelter
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 3 Last episode, we learned about Louisiana's largest criminal court, New Orleans' Municipal Court. This time we follow Municipal...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:06
  • Purchases: 1
John Lewis: Profile in Peace (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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The late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Bought by KUNM, Wyoming Public Radio, WVPE, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
John Lewis: Profile in Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, KUHF, KETR-FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WUFT and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Welcome to Overshoot: Have a Nice Day - 2020 Edition
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Since 1972, study after study has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth’s ecosystems to bear. Welc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 12, 2020
  • Length: 51:49
  • Purchases: 1
Dan Bazile: There's a Reason That Rain Is Here
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Rain - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to that, he ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:35
Dan Bazile: People Will Be People
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Revolution - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to tha...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
Covid in the Country
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is being rural a pre-existing vulnerability in this crisis? Equipped with a mask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports (from a responsible dis...

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


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Stories from a Pandemic - Episode 10: Mourning
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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How does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Does it end in a bang, or just fizzle out? What we know for sure is that this story is far from over. In today...

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.1: New World
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from a Pandemic
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In this first episode of our special podcast series, healthcare workers reflect on the imminent patient surge that we have all been bracing for acr...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:14
A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
When The State Stopped
From: WITF
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Documenting the first two months of unprecedented events due to the coronavirus pandemic in Pennsylvania.

Bought by 90.5 WESA and WLVT


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 52:27
  • Purchases: 2
Steve Martin welcomes singer/ songwriter Valerie Smith to Unreal Bluegrass
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Caption: Unreal Bluegrass , outside the flattop box, Credit: Steve Martin
Valerie Smith is an acclaimed singer/songwriter . New songs with a new CD to launch later .

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 57:56
Fighting for Home
From: NANCY GUAN
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Residents of an apartment in Los Angeles fight against a broken housing system.

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  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 13:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KOSU and KVSC


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 04/23/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Why Indonesia is a target for tobacco companies - Indonesian households spend almost as much on cigarettes as they do on ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Life in the Age of Coronavirus
From: Felix Poon
Caption: Cover Art by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
What’s changed because of the pandemic? And how is it different for different people? In this first episode of the Felixity podcast, I talk to a fe...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
HIV, Hurricanes & COVID-19 in coastal North Carolina
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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HIV-positive people discuss what it was like to live through Hurricane Florence and how it compares to the coronavirus pandemic. Healthcare provide...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 09:35
Infectious Agents and Alzheimer's Disease
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:19

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