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Most of us at one time or another ask the question, “Why would people walk hundreds of miles to the U.S. boarder knowing they will probably be turn...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....
- Added: Apr 10, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
The census doesn’t just distribute representatives in congress and billions of dollars in federal funds—it determines city bus routes, how many gar...
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 33:11
This week, we share a recent round table on e-carceration here in Bloomington. This event was part of a series across southern Indiana, as communit...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we visit the women of the Breakaway Recovery House. Located in New Albany, Indiana, this halfway house is the residence for 14 formerly ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:03
Community, Family & Service with Chelsea Reed Palm Beach Gardens City Council Hopeful
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 07, 2020
- Length: 27:36
- Purchases: 1
This piece is an exploration of the experience of children of immigrants.
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 07:04
Legend says whoever sees the Demon Cat of Capitol Hill is cursed. Fina Mendoza, the 10-year old daughter of a congressman, just saw it. Can she sav...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 01:56:10
- Purchases: 2
We talk with Mimi Lemay about her powerful memoir of a family with a transgender child, What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Tran...
- Added: Nov 22, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Many things divide a country, but it’s the overlooked, personal slights, that hurt the most.
- Added: Nov 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
An act of oppression comes in many forms. Government, household, work environment, and even friendships. It happens when one group or person exerci...
- Added: Oct 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Novelist Karl Marlantes, whose latest book is "Deep River," talks with Benjamin Busch.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 1
No matter where you are in the world, you’re confronted by violence. One study shows that over half of our population is very concerned about the c...
- Added: Aug 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Samantha wants to know why so many people in her family have been incarcerated. Her mom tells her it's just "poor choices," but Sam isn't satisfie...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 28, 2019
- Length: 11:56
- Purchases: 2
There have been over 200 mass shootings in this country since 2009. Shannon Watts, the author of a new book, "Fight Like a Mother" is the founder o...
Bought by KKRN, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, KWIT and more
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 9
Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 37:16
America is one of only two countries in the world where you can be fired for taking a day off in order to give birth (let that sink in for a moment...
Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KKRN, KUT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: May 30, 2019
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 13
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:00
HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...
- Added: Mar 29, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
Julio, brought here when not quite 2 years old, grew up not knowing he was undocumented until he went to get his driver's license. His status did n...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Maria, from El Salvador, speaks of her struggles to learn English, reacquaint herself with her children after 8 years apart, and how they all achie...
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 03:00
The financial crash of 2008 hit middle and working class families especially hard. They are still struggling.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KCBX
- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week we're at the YWCA, talking to President and CEO Lisa McDuffie about Dialogue to Change a program that focuses on organizing, dialogue and...
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 06:10
ACTEC Fellow Hugh Magill’s final episode in the lecture series discusses increased life expectancy of grantors, their beneficiaries, and the implic...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 33:30
HOUR ONE: "Giving Is Complicated" - It's the holiday season. Time to think about gifts. It's trickier than you think. HOUR TWO: "Healing Trauma" ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
