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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...
- Added: Jul 14, 2023
- Length: 24:53
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 19:19
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in San Francisco. "Civic" hears from activists and officials about future plans for combating AIDS.
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- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggests will happen to people who are denied abortions ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 17:37
After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...
- Added: Apr 14, 2022
- Length: 22:11
What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 29:30
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...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:51
Searching for Meaning in Kensington
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 55:22
June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June 2nd and June 16th episodes of Kite Line to his st...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:55
This isn’t the story of another police shooting. It’s the story of what happens after a police shooting. Especially one in particular.
“The night ...
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- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 09:34
- Purchases: 1
On January 28th, a fire consumed a mixed-use apartment building on 22nd and Mission. The conflagration destroyed more than 30 local businesses, and...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:55
A deep look into the troubling rise of suicides among young people. Students at Columbia College Chicago explore the personal stories and confront ...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 45:27
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.
Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 3
Every month, Alex Aldana stands in protest in front of the West County Detention Facility in Richmond. It’s a medium-security jail that holds men a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
Every morning in the Tenderloin, when people all around San Francisco are starting to wake up, around 30 people gather at St. Boniface Church, wait...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 08:07
On the state level, California is working to address the issue of sexual assault on campus. In September, the state passed a new “Yes means Yes” la...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 2
People 50 years or older now make up the majority of HIV and AIDS cases in San Francisco. Since HIV emerged in the 1980's, treatments have improved...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 1
For Jamaisse Payne, the grocery store is a math problem. She’s got a baby boy due in a few weeks, so she says she’s shopping and eating for two. Sh...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 06:56
“Our Hallowed Ground - The Love Balm Project”is a series of performances based on testimonies of Bay Area mothers and grandmothers who have lost ch...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:07
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...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:55
Community policing has been the official police philosophy in Oakland since 1996. Rather than police simply responding to crime after it happens, c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
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
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 19:35
- Purchases: 1
Domestic Violence compared between the older, middle and younger generations, with special guest Leslie Morgan Steiner, author of Crazy Love
- Added: Oct 26, 2009
- Length: 29:00
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...
- Added: Apr 15, 2009
- Length: 04:59
An on air conversation and voyage through Western History and American Indian Law with Professor Robert J. Miller.
Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: May 07, 2008
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
