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GLOBAL ISSUES come to BURNING MAN
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. ...

Bought by KFCF FM, WVTF, Nevada Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 6
70 Million: When "Bail Reform" Isn't
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact we look at Bail Reform in the state of Texas with the help of our podcast partners 70 Million. For conservative lawmake...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)
This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A legal matrix that incentivizes criminal convictions can motivate unethical prosecutors to bend or break the rules. In New York, a group of law pr...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Civil Rights: Dred Scott v Sandford
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The anticanon case that had to be undone through Constitutional amendment.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
President Biden and America's Expectation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
70 Million: The Work of Closing a Notorious Jail
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Inex Bordeaux holds up a sign while doing street outreach in north St. Louis to raise awareness about the Close the Workhouse campaign., Credit: Carolina Hidalgo
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
50 Years Later: Remembering Fred Hampton
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps Griot: Carol Barner--Seay, Shirley Reese , Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Carol Barne---Seay, Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:02
Vernon Baker and Daniel Inouye by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Vernon Baker
First Lieutenant Vernon Baker received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II, April 1945, near Viareggio, in Tuscany, Italy and Ca...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 34:20
Steps Forward
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week we share news and stories from two people who have been caught up in very different ways in the web of prison. Both Bresha Meadows and Pa...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 30:10
Hunger and Work Strikes
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
Raising a Police Officer
From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Summer Story Workshop, 2015
Caption: Raymond Summerville, Credit: Meredith Turk
Raymond Summerville uncovers the surprising and troubled past of George Hatton, a beloved citizen of Columbia, Missouri, whom neighborhood children...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
#BlackLivesMatter: Alicia Garza on the Origins of a Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.

Bought by WCPN, XRAY.fm, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Deadly Force: Police Shootings
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Police Lights, Credit: JJ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/4172577749/in/photolist-7mHxZF-ntjU6o-BA5dw-4YVuiR-4oxk3p-9WvKAJ-6aAVL8-4TriEc-9RxFf5-cX9PJ7-9FWBUQ-9iVSZY-3JGAkJ-aA7muZ-5Z6ysn-NajHv-97f5km-7NV3qB-dhhs8s-fjfh3-9Ra8Si-nZLv2P-HjZTJ-hrc2rF-cbcHJ5-bW6YvQ-4kV4bM-7y
Why are so many of those killed by police young people of color? A recent ProPublica investigation found that a young black male is at twenty one t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
I Am Trayvon!
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Caption: "Struck down but not destroyed", Credit: Makalah
Check out Makalah's piece about the Trayvon Martin vigil in downtown Austin. She talks about her experience and asks citizens about their view on t...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 04:35
MLK Park's Freedom Form ll : A Sculptural Metaphor on Race?
From: Susan Gray
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Forty years ago, the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize spoke at the 1971 dedication of the MLK Park in south Minneapolis. ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 04, 2012
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
Actor Kal Penn at IU Bloomington Raw Lecture Audio
From: Brandon Morley
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Raw Audio of lecture by actor Kal Penn on IU Bloomington Campus Saturday

  • Added: Mar 30, 2008
  • Length: 54:08
Kumar, as in "Harold Kumar" stumps for Obama on the Indiana University Bloomington Campus.
From: Brandon Morley
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Actor Kal Penn Visits IU-Bloomington Campus stumping for Barack Obama

  • Added: Mar 30, 2008
  • Length: 08:13