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Caption: Kyla Bennett of PEER
Former EPA whistleblower Dr. Kyla Bennett explains why the EPA is unlikely to protect public health from dangerous chemicals.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:26
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Treatment for eating disorders is often inaccessible and ineffective, especially in communities of color. The founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride h...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Can a song make a person do something awful? Many believe it can. In fact, there have been multiple court cases where a song was brought into evi...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9

  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
Explore the complicated and rich history behind the compromises made in order to get the New Deal through, and what lasting consequences they have ...

Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 2
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Maybe there is life out there. Maybe UFOs have visited us. The government is even admitting there is a pretty good chance. However, many musicia...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHNS, KWIT, Harford Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health a death sentence for women of color? The overturning of Roe v. Wade not only creat...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Anthropological bio-archeologist Keitlyn Alcantara studies pre colonial burial sites to understand indigenous foodways.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMPG, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: A portrait of Meridel LeSueur, Credit: Courtesy of the archives of Becka B. Tilsen
Meridel LeSueur was a herald for a populist vision of America in the first half of the 20th century, especially in the Twin Cities. Despite being s...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 17:01
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the data shows, that barring access to the procedure would disproportionately affect young women. And in 2019, women in their 20s accounted for mor...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 56:56
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QAnon and false facts are sending Americans down a rabbit hole of misinformation. Some of this misinformation is deadly as the anti-vaxxer informat...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 57:38
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To queer something is to ask questions about what gender and sexuality have to do with the topic at hand. Here, we are looking at food and farming.

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Climate change is coming for your food. In the American Heartland, farmers are battling increasingly severe weather, with epic floods and heat. Nea...

Bought by KMUN and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Different doesn't mean bad, and there isn't one "normal way" of being. Autism is one of those ways that brains connect and interact with the world ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 30:10
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Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 14:21
Caption: Asantewaa Boykin, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, program director for MH First Sacramento, and an ER nurse, poses for a photo at her home in Sacramento., Credit: Photo by Sara Nevis.
Police encounters during a mental health crisis have a greater chance of turning deadly if you're Black. New response mechanisms bypass law enforce...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
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Prominent feminist scholars join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer in a discussion of “The Global Implications of MeToo.” With expertise on MeToo in th...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:26:10
  • Purchases: 1
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What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film...

Bought by KWMR, WNYE, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Many of the world’s most successful businesses began as someone’s good idea. But the path from startup to conventional financial success typically ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Kathryn Bond Stockton, a dean and English professor at the University of Utah, wrote “Gender(s)” published by MIT Press, 2021.
“Gender is queer for everyone,” says author and professor Kathryn Bond Stockton. She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
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Two former sex industry workers have filed a complaint in U.S. District Court, District of Nevada against a diverse and extraordinary list of defen...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 11:02
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from television writers, David Benioff & D.B. Weiss on their process of adapting the Emmy Award-winning HBO televi...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
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Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:12