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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:50
This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on th...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 14:43
- Purchases: 1
This week, we hear stories from people seeking refuge, and how war and immigration policy impact people on the ground.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together
- Added: Nov 22, 2020
- Length: 28:19
23-year-old Tim Cronin is running for Town Councilor At-Large in Weymouth, Massachusetts and he has a secret he doesn't want anyone to find out.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 20, 2019
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
A rural pocket of Northern California is seeing some of the highest rates of suicide in the state. This project explores the mental health crisis i...
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 01:05:14
With all the digital text trails we're creating these days, what can we learn about our inner psychology, mental health, and well-being?
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 2
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Elections and political messaging are changing in the new media landscape. Campaigns are using big data to target voters with better precision, and...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 32:12
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
George McDonald and Harriet Karr-McDonald are the heart and soul of the Doe Fund, a non-profit organization that trains and houses homeless men in ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 29:08
The Black Panthers weren’t the only ones arming themselves in the 60s and 70s. And as Making Contact producer George Lavender found, not everyone h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 06:26
- Purchases: 1
Laws that required cops to live in the cities they patrolled were common in the early 1900’s and still exist in the United States today. However, s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 28:08
- Purchases: 1
Hosted by Dave Seastrom, Pam Raider, Vera Grubbs, Rick Fettig & Jeff Foster.
First aired Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 9 AM on WFHB
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 59:01
Hosted by Dave Seastrom, Pam Raider, Vera Grubbs, Rick Fettig & Jeff Foster.
First aired Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 9 AM on WFHB
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 59:01
A news report from Nell Abram in Tampa on Williams-Yulee v. the Florida Bar.
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 02:58
"Impulse Under the Influence" examines campus rape culture and how easy access to alcohol exacerbates the incidence of sexual abuse.
Bought by KMUD
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 55:07
- Purchases: 1
Maine has a large population of senior drivers. How do we keep them safe, and what do these seniors have to say about staying on the road?
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 1
From the forest fires in California to child soldiers in Uganda, survivors of disasters are receiving a new kind of aid. Counselors Without Borders...
- Added: Aug 08, 2014
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 3
Reactions to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 02:59
With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and Radio Newark
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 4
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
California, Arizona, and Massachusetts have all replaced bilingual education with an English immersion model. This was supposed to help close the a...
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 04:01
