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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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 17:02
Caption: An unhoused man who goes by “Si Pues” sits with his belongings after moving them around the block during a sweep in Van Nuys, Calif. on July 29, 2022. Once the sweep was finished he will move back to the same spot., Credit: Alisha Jucevic
This week on Making Contact we continue with our look at a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California and how they were f...

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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Family court judges sometimes decide that domestic abuse claims are not credible. But making the wrong call can end with children paying the ultima...

Bought by WFHB and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Domestic abuse isn't always physical violence. Civic talks to experts about coercive control and hear from victims about their experiences at home ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Mike Milton at the Freedom Community Center in St. Louis, MO., Credit: Joe Martinez
This week on Making Contact we're taking you to St. Louis, Missouri with the Podcast 70 Million to learn about the city's ongoing efforts to re-ima...

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


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Inter-racial and LGBTQ dating stories

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Joseph V. Conte Facility., Credit: Broward County Sheriff’s Office
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Tanya Benson, Credit: Tanya Benson
Feature story about a woman squatting in an abandoned house in Detroit with her family of five.

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
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23-year-old Tim Cronin is running for Town Councilor At-Large in Weymouth, Massachusetts and he has a secret he doesn't want anyone to find out.

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we feature an interview with Patrick, who reflects on his experience with addiction and prison. His story is both deeply personal and ana...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 30:10
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In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
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Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:10
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Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:19
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Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 26:51
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Aracelis Lucero, a former Wall Street executive who was raised in the South Bronx, has rededicated her life to mentoring the thousands of documente...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:09
Caption: Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Science Director at the Greater Good Science Center and co-instructor of The Science of Happiness, Credit: Liz Mak
U.C. Berkeley is known for its world-class scientists, in disciplines like physics, chemistry or biology. But just a few blocks away from campus, y...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anthony Perez and his son Gage., Credit: Ben Allen/WITF
Heroin addiction has touched towns and cities across the Northeast. In this piece, WITF's Ben Allen goes beyond the numbers to talk to a family who...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:07
Caption: Miriam Nobre, Credit: http://marchamulheres.files.wordpress.com/
We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence; Stella Soh, Kathy Kelly, and Miriam Nobre.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face...it can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly has...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by KUOW, WCPN, KUOW, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 5
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill, Vietnamese fisher folk on the Gulf Coast found themselves doubly affected. The disaster made it impossible fo...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 09:48
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Former students receive salaried training inside many of Colorado's white-collar companies as an alternative to difficult home settings.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:51