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A MO-HO Releases His Trauma With The Shards Of An Honor Code Junkie

From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson

Caption: Composer Blake Allen with his Album Cover Shards Of An Honor Code Junkie, Credit: Blake Allen

Composer Blake Allen wrote a musical treatment of his experience as a gay man while a Mormon and a student at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake...

This "Bad Child" Became a Judge With a Passion for Justice, Poetry, and Decency

From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned

Season 1.5, Episode 3 Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...

These young New Orleans dancers want the police to know they are not a threat

From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned

Season 1 Episode 9 A dance troupe of young, Black, male teens express their fear and anxiety about police and how the police might potentially vie...

Bought by PRX Remix

Rethinking Ink

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Lasers, tattoo removal, and second chances.

Bought by KALW

Where Richard Becomes Bianca: Inside Miss Vera's Crossdressing Academy

From: George Bodarky

Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls bills itself as the world’s first crossdressing academy. We spend time with its founder,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Summer Learning Series: Ambitious Program Gears Up To Push Middle-Schoolers Past High School

From: WBHM
Series: Summer Learning Lifts Graduation Rates

Caption: A view from the balcony: the Young Musicians Camp ensemble plays everything from classical to “All About That Bass” at the University of Montevallo. , Credit: Dan Carsen

Fewer reading materials in the home. Less access to camps or museums. Those are some of the reasons “summer learning loss” disproportionately affe...

Is braille relevant in a digital age?

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: "Read" in braille, Credit: ARTWORK BY ANGELA JOHNSTON

Marco Salsiccia is a huge movie buff. He owns hundreds of DVDs. They fill his small apartment in the Sunset District. Some are piled on his dining ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

THE GREEN PRINCE -- Nadav Schirman, Mossab Hassan Yousef, and Gonen Ben Yitzak Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Nadav Schirman, Gonen Ben Yitzak, and Mossab Hassan Yousef, San Francisco, CA 7/25/14, Credit: Andrea Chase

Nadav Schirman, Mossab Hassan Yousef, and Gonen Ben Yitzak talk hope, perspective, and first meetings.

Two men and a baby: Navigating parenting and partnership in a two-dad family

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Mickey, Alicia and Amos Lim, Credit: Phyllis Christopher

When Amos and Mickey Lim met in 1995, they had no idea they would someday have a daughter together. It just didn’t seem possible. They lived an oce...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Shenandoah Valley Shape Note Singers

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Cross Keys Ruritan Hall, Harrisonburg, VA, Credit: Sarah Cumming

Contributor Kelley Libby visits a shape note sing event in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Sometimes this style of singing is referred to as Sac...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

Give me shelter, San Francisco

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

A lot of things make San Francisco a unique city -- and one is the sheer number of dogs. There are more dogs than there are children. Something li...

Italian Tailors: An Age-Old Tradition Unravels

From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now

Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni

Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

(Optional) Part 2: Corruption in International Adoption

From: Tiny Spark
Series: Tiny Spark

This is an optional second segment, which can be added to Part 1, for a package nearing 26 mins in length. In the second segment, Tiny Spark host, ...

Corruption in International Adoption

From: Tiny Spark
Series: Tiny Spark

Caption: Jennifer Hemsley with daughter, Pearl and Hazel (R), 2007, Credit: Jennifer Hemsley

Tiny Spark takes a look at a seemingly good idea - international adoption - and explores its unintended consequences: corruption, fraud and child t...

Bought by PRX Remix

Daran Kravanh

From: Dmae Lo Roberts

After experiencing the horror of the Khmer Rouge experience, Daran Kravanh credits an accordion that appeared on a stump in a forest with saving hi...

Clowns Without Borders After the Earthquake

From: Ruxandra Guidi

Caption: Moises Tiana during a clown performance in Pisco, Peru, Credit: Roberto "Bear" Guerra

A troupe of Spanish clowns visited Pisco, Peru, after a devastating earthquake. They were followed around by children, doctors and psychologists.

Steve Reich's Different Trains meets the Borromeo String Quartet -- on ThoughtCast!

From: Jenny Attiyeh

The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirr...

Bought by WBHM, WDAV Classical Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio