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New Yorkers Welcome Migrants: What’s it Take to Make Sanctuary Real?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This year, New York City has received over 100,000 asylum seekers, including 15,000 unaccompanied minors. Most are from Latin America, where they f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Untold Story of Candace Cahill's Memoir Goodbye Again
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU alumna and author Candace Cahill about...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2022
  • Length: 27:19
The Perks and Pitfalls of Multiethnic Family Life
From: Diana Opong
Caption: Diana Opong & Kristin Leong, Credit: Photo by Jessica Peterson & Keri Zierler
Race and Identity at Home is a narrated public radio audio feature exploring parenting in multicultural families with Kristin Leong and Diana Opong...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 17:47
RDD: Allowed to Dream
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Jennifer Brouwer lost her mother to Pancreatic Cancer in 2001, in wanting to honor her mother’s memory she created the Janet Phleger Foundation, a...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Dena Kohleriter and Jori Kohleriter
From: StoryCorps
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Dena Kohleriter had always seen herself becoming a mother one day. So when she was 36 years old, she decided to have a child on her own.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of the Jacob Wetterling Documentary Film with Director Chris Newberry
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota. Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with documentary filmmaker Chris Newberry about ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:25
StoryCorps: Alan Stepakoff and Josh Stepakoff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Josh Stepakoff talks to his father, Alan, about surviving a shooting at a Jewish day camp when he was six years old.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:13
Ayden
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of the Bruno Press
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack heads out to St. Joseph to talk with...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:56
"No Excuses" Schools: Broken Windows Theory Goes to School
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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I’m joined by author and educator Jim Horn to discuss his latest book, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through No Excuses Teaching. Horn explores the ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:12
Operation Baby New Year Seeks 100,000 Diapers for Families in Need
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we find a little bit of light in the darkness as we hear about a volunteer drive...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 31:31
Three Weeks
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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An intimate conversation about the death of a child. What happens after the hardest thing happens?

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 31:27
OOC4: Dick Cates
From: Jake Harper
Series: Out of Context
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A candidate for Wisconsin's 51st Assembly district remembers his son, Peter, who brought so much joy into his life.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:19
Special Education in NY Public Schools (Short Doc)
From: Katie Hiler
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A Long Island mother faces immense challenges as she tries to educate her three autistic sons through New York's public school system.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
Healing Trauma With Design
From: Eric Molinsky
Caption: Columbine Principal Frank DeAngeles, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Can trauma be healed with architecture and design? Eric Molinsky looks how Columbine, Aurora and Virginia Tech have changed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:42
  • Purchases: 1
2012: A Year In Your Ear - "The Police Made Them Hold Hands And Close Their Eyes"
From: Mad Genius
Series: 2012: A Year In Your Ear
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Mad Genius presents the latest story-song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "The Police Made Them Hold Hands And Close Their Eyes." C...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 04:18
Tales from the South 044
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Robert Saxton on Being a Hockey Dad
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Regular KAXE contributor Robert Saxton is a writer and is often referred to as "the minivan man," here's his essay about being a Hockey Dad (fyi: t...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 06:52
Are childhood mental illnesses related to strep?
From: Julianne Hill
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This two-part series examines the debate by world-class scientists if a connection between tics, Tourette's, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ext...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
Burial At Sea
From: Adam Allington
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Bill Bricker has one particular memory that colors his observation of Memorial Day

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WTIP, Delta College Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 8
Talking 2 Sophia: A Child Speaks about 911
From: Michael Johnson
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A child's view of September 11, 2001

Bought by WMNF, WMBR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KCUR, and WYSO


  • Added: Aug 29, 2005
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 5
A Foster Care Teen Talks With Her Biological Mom
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A teenager who's bounced around the foster care system for years asks her biological mom where she's been.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXLV-FM, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 4
Listening For A Name
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Monique Attinger prepares for the possibility of losing a child to miscarriage.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 13, 2005
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
Losing a Best Friend
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Short Features
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Producer Joe Bevilacqua chronicles the rise and fall of a longtime friendship.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 28, 2005
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1