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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 56:11
After decades of economic inequality ravaged the population of mostly African-American residents, the outcome of the coronavirus outbreak was predi...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 2
The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more
- Added: Jul 08, 2020
- Length: 10:44
- Purchases: 9
Welcome to Watershed, a podcast about life in a group of neighborhoods on the East Side of Cleveland.
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 08:25
New voter identification laws could sharply curb voter participation in N.C. and other states, says Duke University historian Gunther Peck.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 02:14
The past finalist on NBC's The Apprentice shares insights into community building with nonprofits in Austin, Tx, lessons learned working with Donal...
- Added: Apr 29, 2016
- Length: 21:42
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
Community member Sally Shepard fights the odds and her health to launch a successful parade in Frogtown, St. Paul.
- Added: Nov 07, 2010
- Length: 05:11
This week we talk to lenders who are doing things differently and to people who are helping others stave off financial scammers.
- Added: Oct 01, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Police wrestle with solutions for St. Louis gang problem
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 26, 2008
- Length: 06:48
- Purchases: 1
How some immigrants once considered non-white became white
- Added: Feb 13, 2008
- Length: 06:02
Observations in a Courtroom
- Added: Feb 23, 2006
- Length: 02:50
"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 2