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If you read your history books, you might think that America’s involvement in the war against Japan began with the attack on Pearl Harbor on Decemb...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:12
Jeremy Mykaels is in his early 60s, and he has AIDS. As a young gay man, he moved to the Castro, where he has lived for almost 40 years. He's been ...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:41
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Robin Steinberg is founder and executive director of The Bronx Defenders, which represents people in the criminal and civil courts who can't afford...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 29:47
Sayon Soeun, once a child soldier kidnapped by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government which killed over two million people, returns to his homeland to s...
- Added: Jan 11, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Marla Knight is packing up her home of 48 years. She’s been evicted from her North Beach apartment because the owners are converting it to tenancie...
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- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 04:41
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The name Andy Lopez probably didn’t ring a bell before October 22, 2013. On that afternoon, the 13-year-old Lopez was just a kid playing with a BB ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:35
If you walk upstairs from the kitchen at Mother Brown’s drop-in center in the evening, you’ll find dozens of people sleeping in chairs. During the ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 06:46
California has been in an ongoing struggle trying to figure out how to deal with overcrowding in prisons. The problems extend to the Division of Ju...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:19
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
Sonnets are a way to find optimism in difficult times. This is a sonnet that acknowledges that the first fish is the best fish and can provide f...
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- Added: Oct 13, 2013
- Length: :51
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Ben Weisz investigates how child labour is rife among Montevideo's rubbish-cart drivers, and what is being done to help.
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 09:27
It turns out that a community best known for winning spelling bees also has some radical skeletons in its closet.
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- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 04:30
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New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
An interview with young entrepreneur Nikolaos Kakavoulis, the founder and CEO of the "Daily Secret" group of websites. "Daily Secret" launched in ...
- Added: May 26, 2013
- Length: 10:29
Italian breads and pastries are favorites among foodies. But Italian artisan bakeries are shutting down. Changing eating habits, the crisis and t...
Bought by KUOW, KLCC, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 06:09
- Purchases: 3
The WORLD features news reports from around the world, centered on humanitarian issues or stories that have an individual or mass impact on communi...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 27:30
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 03:30
Episode 4 of 'Sessions at the Cactus'. The legendary, Ray Benson, takes the stage for an interview and performance, and footage of Patty Larkin's 1...
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 59:01
Episode 3 of 'Sessions at the Cactus'. Folk singer-songwriter, Sahara Smith, and legendary country-rock musician, Jesse Winchester, take the stage ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 59:01
Freedom Rider "Rip" Patton tells his story about taking that eerie ride to Jackson, Mississippi.
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 04:47
Tish Jones is the Community Engagement Director for the St Paul Almanac, and Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks. She began performing at age 14, an...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 04:47
In another story KALW brought you the story of the so-called Chess Cinderella, Dyhemia Young. The foster child won a college scholarship at a prest...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 06:41
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If you’re convicted of committing a felony in California, you can end up in many kinds of prisons. Steal a lot of money in a Ponzi scheme – you mig...
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- Added: Aug 29, 2011
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 2
Think of a place you’d never go, unless you really had to. Think of Oakland’s Parking Citation Assistance Center.
It’s a non-descript room in a ty...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 04:49
How a small community of gold miners in the Colombian jungle is fighting to turn a toxic industry into a green and global market.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 34:24
