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Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 20:47
This fall marks the 30th anniversary of one of Minnesota’s most celebrated baseball moments: the Twins’ 1991 World Series championship. But this ye...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2021
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
Up next on Making Contact we turn our attention to those Americans who are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus fallout. According to the CDC, Blac...
- Added: Dec 22, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The country might be locked down, but struggles inside prisons and out continue to develop chaotically and unexpectedly intersect with the COVID-19...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offer...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 3
In last week’s episode, we introduced Johdy Polk, who spoke to us about her time behind the prison walls, and urged audiences to see the other ways...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:56
This week, Johdy Polk, from Gainesville, Florida, describes her time inside a women’s prison, while sharing cutting observations on growing up as a...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:14
For this week’s episode we share the first part of a conversation between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. Wang is the author of the recent book, Carc...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:19
This week, we start by finishing the discussion between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. You can hear more of their conversation on carceral capitalis...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:03
This week, we are airing selections from a panel discussion that took place earlier this month here in Bloomington. Andrea Ritchie and Victoria Law...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 27:43
African American women in Indiana face disparities in healthcare and health outcomes. They are more likely to die during or after childbirth then w...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
Cornelius Wright and Roberta Radovich welcome Debra Marrow, Sarah Hunt & Liz Mitchell
- Added: Jun 04, 2018
- Length: 57:39
Leila Randle and Clarence Boone welcome Debra Marrow and Sarah Hunt
- Added: May 27, 2018
- Length: 58:44
Women-owned businesses generated over $1.6 trillion in sales in 2017, but they still make up less than 2/5ths of all privately held companies. But,...
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 04:20
Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde is a healer, a poet, and a black studies practitioner. Abegunde is a co-director of a month-long series of readings a...
- Added: Sep 21, 2017
- Length: 08:53
The "breast is best" message seems often to miss black women, who breast-feed at a rate much lower than other races. Why?
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:40
From: Stefanie Mavronis
In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listene...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:38:20
The women behind a new production called "Resilience" discuss the histories of people of color in Indiana on this week's edition of Big Talk with M...
- Added: Oct 06, 2016
- Length: 09:37
Michele Bratcher Goodwin's investigative research in human trafficking, the black market for body parts, reproductive rights, the politics of organ...
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- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 29:06
- Purchases: 1
Almost 17 percent of the babies born here in Dunklin County are born premature. According to data from the World Health Organization, if this were ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:10
Every ten years, the Furious Flower Poetry Conference is held at James Madison University. This year, the event was dedicated to renowned poet Rita...
Bought by KENW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 10, 2014
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 2
The Dawn Will Break is a documentary that is currently in production. It tells the story of some South Sudanese young women, who after fleeing the ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 1
All around the country, summer reading lists will feature the same familiar authors of the literary canon. In recent decades, that canon has come t...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 3
In Sudan, where my family is from, there is an ancient beauty ritual that married women perform called dukhan. It’s like a sauna, but with smoke.
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- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 14:52
