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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
A preview of Choreographers' Evening 2014 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with Kenna-Camara Cottman and the dancers of In New Company.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
WABE reporter Jim Burress takes us to ‘The Bluff’, a neighborhood in Atlanta where a needle exchange program has become a vital part of a strugglin...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Mar 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 08:35
When you call 911, who answers the phone? How do they decide who to send to the scene, and how fast will they get there? We bring you a 2-part spec...
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 58:59
April 15th came with an explosion this year at the Boston Marathon, this mix blends sounds from that afternoon with the ongoing bad history on that...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 59:47
Built in 1982, the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome has seen it’s share of sporting events. Baseball, football, soccer. But off the field, a community o...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 28:44
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting July 21st, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the guy with the glasses and toll free number,...
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 54:00
It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 30, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 29:00
When it comes to public comment periods, school board and city council meetings are just plain weird.
- Added: Nov 17, 2011
- Length: 58:30
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:02
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
- Added: Sep 16, 2011
- Length: 29:00
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Was the occupation of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin a resurgence of organized labor in the United States, or the last gasp for unionized ...
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 29:00
From courtroom battles to government regulation, we take a look at how citizen groups around the world are holding oil companies accountable for en...
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
So-called ‘quality of life’ policing may temporarily decrease crime, but it has harsh consequences for innocent people caught up in the frenzy of a...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 07:10
Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...
Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 3
