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In 2011 the Dayton Correctional Institution became the third women’s prison in Ohio, when it was changed from a 500-bed male facility to a women’s ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 59:04
Mahmoud Toureh is now 23. He moved to Fargo, North Dakota when he was 12. He talks about his life between two countries, his fears for Syria, and...
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 18:52
For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 48:42
The #Frisco5 are San Francisco activists who launched a 17-day hunger strike against police violence and racism. We are joined by participant and h...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 14:34
May is Mental Health Awareness month. Learn more about its history and importance with mental health advocate, Ane Romero.
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 14:32
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 04:50
Deb Noethe lost her son, Garret, to a heroin overdose in 2014. She shares the story of his addiction.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 16:46
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Frieda Birnbaum discussed aberrant personality types.
Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WYAP, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 26, 2016
- Length: 16:42
- Purchases: 4
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
An Argentinean Orthodox Jew, going under the pseudonym Gustavo Friedman, tells his story and the aftermath of the deadliest terrorist attack in all...
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 05:10
A Work in Progress: Tucson social worker Ben Ryan discusses the difficulties of coming out in an Ohio all-boys Catholic high-school.
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 05:36
The numbers are hard to calculate. But we know that sexual assault impacts our communities in significant and damaging ways. The number of survivor...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 14:37
- Purchases: 1
Tonight we discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series,March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s life...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 01:00:17
Come with us as we deconstruct popular understandings of the death penalty through the stories of lives caught up in the web of state-sponsored kil...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 13:31
- Purchases: 1
John Bauer talks with Bemidji students/artists: Callie Benson, Ashley Bevins and Callie Wilson about what it was like to address suicide in their art.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 1
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Segment 1: Deanie Bishop Parish/WASPs Segment 2: Melvin Morris/ Medal of Honor Segment 3: Tanya Biank/Women in military Segment 4: Larry Kelle...
Bought by WUFT
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Doctors Medical Center is the biggest public hospital and is closing on April 21, 2015.
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Six students from one Seattle high school have died from suicide or murder this year. Why hasn't this tragedy been front-page news? Is it because a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 35:26
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host, this episode of Making it Work, Christian will share his journey from being a homeless youth to becoming a ca...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
Near Grand Marais, Minn., in 2003, a small plane crashed in the forest, taking the lives of the pilot and his sister-in-law, but sparing the two li...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 24:22
- Purchases: 1
**A MUST-HEAR EPISODE FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN FERGUSON, MO.**
Nick visits the town of Ferguson, MO in the aftermath ...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 1
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 06:44
How does the process of birth impact new motherhood? Is it a rite of passage or a medical event? Next time on Well Woman Radio we’ll hear from Pam ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we feature an extended conversation between Generation Justice Fellow Pauly Denetclaw and professor and activist Roberto Dr. Cintli...
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 57:53
