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Reporter Capri Sparks explores the phenomenon of gentrification in her New York neighborhood, East Harlem.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 04:55
The struggles of undocumented youth in the US often fly under the radar of the mainstream media. But with the tools of creative expression and the ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A discussion of the international refugee picture and the refugee experience in the American Midwest, including personal stories of life as a refug...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 01:54:25
The growth of the ex-gay movement in the last two decades gave rise to hundreds of therapy programs aiming to change people’s sexual orientation. B...
Bought by KISU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSFR, KVSC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Co-Host Peter Kreten airs a panel discussion with Professor Cyndi Kamp of Saint Xavier University, Professor Jehanzeb Niaz nephew of Ghaffer Khan, ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 28:17
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Inspired by the campaign to end South African apartheid, Palestinians are leading an international campaign to put economic and political pressure ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 29:00
There's a battle going on for the soul of Kensington Market in downtown Toronto...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 22:00
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
John D. Shearer is an artist from Indiana that won his battle over a rare form of brain cancer. His multi-media show entitled “I’m Too Young For Th...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 09:37
Among the leading causes of homelessness in single adults is mental illness. Study after study reiterates that up to a quarter of all those sufferi...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
The development of Interstate 69 through Indiana is divided into six sections from the Indiana/Kentucky boarder up to Indianapolis. This week, the ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 12:13
Tiny Spark takes a look at a seemingly good idea - international adoption - and explores its unintended consequences: corruption, fraud and child t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 19:35
- Purchases: 1
A new generation is telling their stories of overthrowing corrupt regimes. And in the digital age, their lessons can spread more quickly than ever ...
- Added: Sep 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A short story from a Egyptian perspective who lives in The USA and visited his parents in Egypt just before The Revolution on January 25, 2011.
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 05:21
Edward R. Murrow called them “ The Lost Class of 1959”. The kids who had nowhere to go when some Virginia public schools closed their doors rather...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Homeless in Kansas CIty
- Added: Mar 26, 2011
- Length: 01:00:00
Programa sobre la importancia que tiene para el Padre Arturo Bañuelas la causa del inmigrante en los Estados Unidos.
Bought by KDNA Radio and KPVL
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 2
A special coverage of "The Border Mass" a celebration of those immigrants who lost their lives crossing the border.
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 2
Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...
- Added: Jan 25, 2010
- Length: 29:24
Domestic Violence compared between the older, middle and younger generations, with special guest Leslie Morgan Steiner, author of Crazy Love
- Added: Oct 26, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Jesse Cohen discussed the Best American Science Writing for 2009.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 21, 2009
- Length: 25:28
- Purchases: 1
Deborah Jacobs of the ACLU-NJ on privacy issues with teenagers.
Major Neill Franklin of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaks at the NORML ...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Apr 22, 2009
- Length: 29:36
- Purchases: 1
We speak with activists and an MS patient who testified before the Senate Health Committee.
- Added: Mar 04, 2009
- Length: 29:31
From: Chris Goldstein
Interviews with members of the public attending the Presidential Inauguration on Philadelphia's Independence Mall.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 13:50