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LaMont Dottin

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

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

Dispatch #355 - Saint Rupert

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: A splash screen for Rupert Everett's talk at the Jaipur Lit. Fest., Credit: Sandip Roy and Jaipur Lit. Fest.

Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.

The Earth Breathes

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Sandip Roy's empty street in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy

For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.

Travel Options for the Collapse

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

Bought by KFCF FM

Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action

From: Laura Flanders

For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

Farewell Transmission: The Life and Music of Jason Molina

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

WFHB Music Director Jim Manion talks with Erin Osmon about her new Jason Molina biography, Riding With the Ghost, and presents some rare WFHB archi...

Minnesota Native News Special Edition: Responding to the Opioid Crisis in MN Native Communities

From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News Special Editions

Caption: In 2015 More American Indians in MN Died of Drug Poisoning than in Any Other State. , Credit: MN Department of Human Services, May 2016

For over a decade, the prescription pain killer and heroin abuse crisis has had a hold on communities across the U-S. Opioid overdoses tripled betw...

Bought by KMSU, WDSE, WGZS, KFAI Minneapolis, KKWE Niijii Radio and more

Nicklesville Pushes Seattle Towards Acceptance of Tent Cities

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Nicklesville, Credit: Sara Bernard

Seattle is one of the only cities in the nation to have passed an ordinance formally sanctioning tent cities. A lot of that success can be chalked ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE

The New Cuba: Reflections, Stories and Song

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Radio Curious visits with Cuban born singer-songwriter Marcos Pereda, who now lives in Ukiah, California. Pereda shares songs and stories about hi...

How One Student Who 'Hates School' Finds Her Path to Graduation

From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge

For high school senior Paula Dinh, the path to graduation has been a long one, with times when she questioned her ability — and desire — to finish ...

Bought by WNIJ

East Oakland (in Blue)

From: Mwende Hahesy

East Oakland neighbors wax poetic about their neighborhood with rhymes from Oakland hip-hop artist Do D.A.T.'s album "Oakland in Blue" laid in for ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Five Farms, Episode Five: Succession

From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families

Caption: David Pecusa, Third Mesa, Hopi Nation, Credit: Andrew Lewis

For each of the families of Five Farms, the question looms large: Who will take over the farm? Succession features the next generation --- the youn...

Bought by WCNY, WEKU, KFOK-LPFM, WRPI, KBGA 89.9 FM and more

Five Farms, Episode Four: Harvest

From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families

Caption: Jeff and Annie Main, Capay, Cal., Credit: Alix Lowrey Blair

Autumn is harvest time. That means Iowa corn and soybeans; fruit dried in the California sun; greens, beans, and potatoes; slaughtered hogs and bee...

Bought by WFAE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, KUNM, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more

Five Farms, Episode Three: Stewardship

From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families

Caption: Sherry Hager, Colrain, Mass., Credit: Steve Schapiro

Stewardship focuses on the daily choices farming families make to preserve their land, water, and air --- the fundamentals of farming. During mid-s...

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, WEKU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KFOK-LPFM and more

Five Farms, Episode One: Planting

From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families

Caption: Craig Griffieon of Ankeny, Iowa, Credit: Elena Rue

Spring planting on the family farm is the time of the annual gamble --- on the alchemies of nature, on the health of livestock, on future fall harv...

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGNU Community Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more

Episode 5- Taking Pains

From: Barika Edwards
Series: The Aliens

Episode 5 Taking Pains Air-strikes and NATO attacks add pressure to Tariq's family in Khandahar. Alejandro has talked to his co-workers in New Yor...

Natural Child Birth: There will Always be Three Now

From: Katy Sewall
Series: Experience Natural Child Birth

Caption: Newly born, Max Ferrer, with his parents Nicole and Sean, Credit: Katy Sewall

When it comes to giving birth in America, less than 1% of couples choose a "natural birth;" that is a birth with no drugs - and little to no medica...