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Out of Gas, In with Justice

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City

Becoming an Honorary Mariachi

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door

Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez

In this episode, g'beda shares what it means to pursue their dream of playing in a mariachi band, and how they found themselves in a rich, vibrant ...

The Spiritual Edge: Becoming Muslim Special 59 minutes

From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge Becoming Muslim

We explore the motivations and challenges of converts as they carve out a uniquely American path for being Muslim in the United States. We profile ...

Bought by KALW, Nevada Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WKAR, WLRH and more

Best of the Best 2020: Towards a Better World

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast

In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for th...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, WNMU-FM and more

Stopping the Gentrification Train

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...

Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Disparities in Cancer Care Represent a Major Public Health Problem

From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief

In this episode of The Onco’Zine Brief hosts Peter Hofland, Ph.D and Sonia Portillo interview Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, the current president of th...

South by South of the Border Soul Food (Gravy Ep. 26)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

Caption: Food at Delicious Southern Cuisine, Los Angeles, CA. , Credit: Photo by Lena Nozizwe, copyright 2015.

Black-eyed peas and collards. Fried chicken and peach cobbler. Customers at Delicious Southern Cuisine in Los Angeles come for these soul food sta...

Bought by KVLU and WABE

A Journey through Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

From: Gianluca Tramontana

Journalist Gianluca Tramontana takes you through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, introduces you to their people, examines their history and explores...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

How Americans Make Race

From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities

Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...

A documentary on race, neighborhoods, schools, and kids in Michigan

From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity

Caption: State of Opportunity from Michigan Radio

If you think we live in a post-racial world…think again: statistically speaking, being born Black or Latino or Native American is associated with s...

Children of the Same Sorrow: The U.S./Mexico Caravan for Peace Takes On the Drug War

From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow

This moving and provocative documentary chronicles the historic journey of the “U.S./Mexico Caravan for Peace,” which from August 12th to Septembe...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WDSE

Behind the Truck Stop: The Story of Vado-Del Cerro

From: Kent Paterson

A half-hour radio documentary that examines the history and culture of a New Mexico border town. The piece explores issues of inter-ethnic relation...