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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...
- Added: Jul 14, 2023
- Length: 24:53
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 19:19
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in San Francisco. "Civic" hears from activists and officials about future plans for combating AIDS.
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggests will happen to people who are denied abortions ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 17:37
After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...
- Added: Apr 14, 2022
- Length: 22:11
What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Season 1.5, Episode 3
Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:51
Searching for Meaning in Kensington
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 55:22
June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June 2nd and June 16th episodes of Kite Line to his st...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:55
This isn’t the story of another police shooting. It’s the story of what happens after a police shooting. Especially one in particular.
“The night ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 09:34
- Purchases: 1
On January 28th, a fire consumed a mixed-use apartment building on 22nd and Mission. The conflagration destroyed more than 30 local businesses, and...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:55
A deep look into the troubling rise of suicides among young people. Students at Columbia College Chicago explore the personal stories and confront ...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 45:27
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.
Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 3
Every month, Alex Aldana stands in protest in front of the West County Detention Facility in Richmond. It’s a medium-security jail that holds men a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
Every morning in the Tenderloin, when people all around San Francisco are starting to wake up, around 30 people gather at St. Boniface Church, wait...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 08:07
On the state level, California is working to address the issue of sexual assault on campus. In September, the state passed a new “Yes means Yes” la...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 2
People 50 years or older now make up the majority of HIV and AIDS cases in San Francisco. Since HIV emerged in the 1980's, treatments have improved...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 1
For Jamaisse Payne, the grocery store is a math problem. She’s got a baby boy due in a few weeks, so she says she’s shopping and eating for two. Sh...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 06:56
“Our Hallowed Ground - The Love Balm Project”is a series of performances based on testimonies of Bay Area mothers and grandmothers who have lost ch...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:07
A lot of things make San Francisco a unique city -- and one is the sheer number of dogs. There are more dogs than there are children. Something li...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:55
Community policing has been the official police philosophy in Oakland since 1996. Rather than police simply responding to crime after it happens, c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
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
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
After experiencing the horror of the Khmer Rouge experience, Daran Kravanh credits an accordion that appeared on a stump in a forest with saving hi...
- Added: Apr 15, 2009
- Length: 04:59
An on air conversation and voyage through Western History and American Indian Law with Professor Robert J. Miller.
Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: May 07, 2008
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1