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Minnesota Native News: MN Counties are penalized for not complying with ICWA
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This is Minnesota Native News and I’m Marie Rock. A recent report from the state of Minnesota shows nearly half of Minnesota Counties that border r...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 11
Uncharted Territory
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
Caption: Children walking in flood water, Norfolk, VA, Credit: Emily Richardson-Lorente
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 32:34
" The Race Is On" UPDATED THURS AUG 27 2020( Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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THIS VERSION ADDS LEBRON JAMES ON POLICE SHOOTINGS AND HURRICANE LAURA MAKING LANDFALL AS A CAT 4. The RNC's Alternate Reality. Jacob Blake of Ken...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
How are the record number of people returning from Louisiana prisons making their way in the world?
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 14 Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:21
What does "adult" mean in the eyes of the law? In Louisiana, many work to change the answer.
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 11 The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
A New Orleans rabbi and her congregants are starting new conversations about mass incarceration
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 7 Congregants at a New Orleans synagogue study and educate themselves about mass incarceration and form bonds with formerly inca...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
This Louisiana mother waits, and paints, and strives to free her son
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 6 What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints. She...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
If you pass through New Orleans courts, innocent or not, you still have to pay
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 4 The way our criminal justice system works, there’s a significant cost to just being accused of a crime. Innocent or not, one w...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
With so many homeless caught up in the criminal legal system, New Orleans holds court at a shelter
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 3 Last episode, we learned about Louisiana's largest criminal court, New Orleans' Municipal Court. This time we follow Municipal...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Air Force is under pressure to explain a longstanding racial disparity in punishment
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Risha Grant, an inclusion and bias expert, holds a closed-door discussion with leaders at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. June 30. Throughout the summer, the Air Force has been holding town halls and trainings about racial injustice., Credit: Sarah Brice / U.S. Air Force
Advocates are calling attention to statistics that show Black airmen are brought up for punishment more often than their white counterparts. The Ai...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 4
Minnesota Native News: Native educator shares lessons from Native families distance learning
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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Families and school districts across Minnesota are thinking about what the next school year may look like for teachers, children and families. The ...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 8
After initially saying it wouldn't, the VA now will remove Nazi symbols from two veterans cemeteries
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A gravestone for a German POW in the San Antonio VA cemetery. The stone is engraved with a swastika and an inscription that references Adolf Hitler., Credit: Military Religious Freedom Foundation
The stones, engraved with swastikas, mark the graves of German POWs who died in the United States during World War II.

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
Minnesota Native News: Primary Elections Approach, Casinos Reopen and a Superfund Site Stays Put
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This week on Minnesota Native News, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe elections are coming up on June 9th, some tribes begin to reopen their casinos after c...

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  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 10
For COVID Patients, Recovery is a Hurdle of Its Own
From: Lucas Woods
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Many recovering COVID patients need rehabilitation before they go home. That's stretching inpatient rehab facilities to their limits.

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 05:36
More than two-thirds of the military supports transgender servicemembers, study finds
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Marine judge advocate Emma Shinn (left) takes her oath of office from Maj. Rebecca Harvey in 2019.
The UCLA study shows broad support among servicemembers for transgender people in the military. But the military still bans transgender people from...

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  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 6
Minnesota Native News: Sheltering in Place and Going Online
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This week on Minnesota Native News we check in with Native leaders whose work has moved online and a couple of online movie recommendations while w...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 9
Twin Cities Native Organizations Move Online
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News Featured Stories
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As shelter in place orders continue across the state of Minnesota, many tribes and urban Native organizations are moving their work online. Report...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:47
Dr. Michael Osterholm on Covid-19: "We Will Get Through This But We'll Never Go Back to Normal"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Conversations on COVID-19
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, is director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and author of the book, Dead...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 2
Hundreds of National Guardsmen Remain Deployed At The Border. For Some, It's A Plum Assignment
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: National Guard Specialist Joshua Smoak, a camera operator, sits inside a Mobile Video Surveillance System Truck in Rio Grande City, Texas., Credit: DeJon WIlliams / Texas Air National Guard
For military personnel at the U.S.-Mexico border, including National Guard troops, it's an unusual assignment. Many are quartered in hotels, and th...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Infectious Agents and Alzheimer's Disease
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:19
The VA has embraced artificial intelligence to improve veterans' health care
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Drs. Andrew Borkowski (left) and Stephen Mastorides analyze slides under a microscope to spot cancer in tissue samples. They trained a computer to do the same thing., Credit: Stephanie Colombini / American Homefront
Researchers at the Tampa veterans' hospital are training computers to diagnose cancer. It's one example of how the Department of Veterans Affairs i...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 5
For some vets, peer counseling may be more helpful than traditional mental health treatment
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Robert Hernandez (left) poses with Joe Augirre, as Augirre holds an award for fixing another veteran's mobile home. , Credit: Alyssa Jeong-Perry / American Homefront
The peer-counseling programs, which have become common in many cities, may improve mental health, self esteem, and social functioning for veterans ...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 6
AND Campaign, Dust, Autonomous Cars
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A campaign to keep Christian voters engaged in the political process when neither of the major parties seems like a good fit. Topic 2: Why...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 50:08
S2 Ep 6: Treating addiction from the ER
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Justina Bauthues (center) poses for a photo with her parents, Lisa and Tom Hilton.
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:04
S2 Ep4: Some Patients Find Relief in Medical Marijuana
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Robin Guerrero overdosed on black-market fentanyl, but now has found tremendous relief from pain and anxiety by using medical marijuana.
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 24:49

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