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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.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 24:34
Her Newborn In Withdrawal, A Young Mother Faces Her Own Recovery
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Newborns in Withdrawal
Caption: Baby Jonathan, 10 days old, Credit: Kristin Gourlay
More babies are being born dependent on the opioid drugs their pregnant mothers were taking. Their condition, called neonatal abstinence syndrome, ...

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
Tova Mirvis reads from Visible City (5/29)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our readings for May. The setting may remind you of Hitchcock's Rear Window.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Living with HIV as a senior
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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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...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 1
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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 1
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


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 4
Food stamp cuts felt around the Bay Area
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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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
Remembering the Magnetic Manna Dey
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy listens back to the music of Manna Dey.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
A new step to recovery: modifying AA for atheists
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Every day people gather in basements and community centers, coffee shops and churches, to talk share about their addiction and recovery. But for so...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:55
Adeeb's Fight for Justice
From: malene Haakansson
Caption: Adeeb Yousif
While most of the international community has forgotten about the crisis in Sudan’s Western Darfur region – human rights’ activist Adeeb Yousif con...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 51:59
A balm for mothers who have lost
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Ayanna Davis preparing the altar, Credit: Jen Chien
“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
Give me shelter, San Francisco
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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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
After 15 years of false starts, Oakland puts hope into a new community policing plan
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: OPD officers engage with local community members during their annual open house, Credit: Kyung Jin Lee
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
Reuniting Children With Deported Parents Brings Extra Scrutiny
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Removed: The Realities Of Deportation
Caption: Deported parents with children who are wards of the state in the U.S. are sometimes able to visit with their children at the border in Tijuana., Credit: Jill Replogle
One in four deportees have a U.S. citizen child left behind. As they struggle to prove to U.S. social workers and the courts that they can take car...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
Deported Parents Face Hurdles To Reunite With US-Citizen Children
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Removed: The Realities Of Deportation
Caption: Tania Velasquez, a Mexican national, hopes to regain custody of her 3-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. Citizen. , Credit: Jill Replogle
The Senate Immigration Reform bill includes provisions that could ease the way for deportees with children in the U.S. child welfare system. Curren...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:02
American Children In Mexico Face Educational Challenges
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Removed: The Realities Of Deportation
Caption: Support group meeting for foreign students and their parents at the Biblioteca Benito Juárez in Tijuana., Credit: Joel Medina
In the last two years, more than 205,000 parents of American citizen children were deported from the United States. That means a new influx of Amer...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
A Revolving Door For Deported Children
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Removed: The Realities Of Deportation
Caption: A drawing by the American child of deported parents in Tijuana., Credit: Beth Caldwell
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Children Left Behind: Deported Parents, American Kids
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Removed: The Realities Of Deportation
Caption: An American boy walks down a street in Guanajuato, Mexico with his father, a deported Mexican national., Credit: Erin Siegal McIntyre
Hundreds, if not thousands, of deported parents are trying to reunite with children left behind in the United States.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Kidney Thief or: P.O.S.
From: Mitch Skinner
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mitch Skinner talks to rapper P.O.S. about his new album and his search for a new kidney.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
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


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
West of Memphis
From: Joyride Media
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New one-hour special details the story of the West Memphis Three case – the accused, the victims, the legal battles and the advocates. Will include...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPVL, KFOK-LPFM, KSRQ, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Almost Perfect
From: Andrew Norton
Caption: Tim “T-Mike” Eaton and his Dad, Tim Eaton bowling together at the Trade Center Bowl in Falmouth, MA. , Credit: Andrew Norton
In bowling, a “perfect game” is three hundred points. Lots of good bowlers never get one. But Tim Eaton and his son have over a dozen between them...

Bought by iPondr, WJCT, KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 8
Following Seas
From: Alex Lewis
Caption: An aerial view of North Beach Island where five cottages were demolished by the federal government.
In late 2011. the federal government decided to demolish five old seaside cottages on Cape Cod that were at threat of being washed away due to coas...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
Transgendered
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A sensitive generational discussion on the issues facing those who are transgendered.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Bullying Forces One Student Into Homeschooling
From: Georgia Public Broadcasting
Series: Bullying in Georgia Schools
Caption: Jaheem Herrera
: Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1