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Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 58:23
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 03:43
Not every eviction is equal.
- Added: Aug 18, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Join Laura and Gina Kim for this impactful conversation on combating anti-Asian hate. A documentary series on PBS, Rising Against Asian Hate: One ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida and more
- Added: Mar 22, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 8
Brilliant and heartfelt thankfulness in the midst of 2020 and Thanksgiving. LISTEN TO THE PIECE. Just what we needed from KVMR TOP REVENUE SHOW "M...
- Added: Nov 22, 2020
- Length: 04:20
In this hour we hear three stories about what it's like being Black and male in the United States of America. The first story, from season 1 of Un...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 1
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
Suzanne LaGrande interviews Leah Klass, creative consultant, mother of two, neighbor who works with asylum seekers.
- Added: Apr 10, 2020
- Length: 12:09
Arab-American writer Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis and is now a long-time resident of San Antonio and the 2018 winner of the Texas Institu...
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Most of the lawsuits filed in Utah are debt collection suits, usually in the realm of a couple hundred dollars. And nearly all the debtors being s...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 15:14
When kids grow up and see their parents going through drug addiction, you’d think they wouldn’t to do it, but instead it just continues. Sadly, aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
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
In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of...
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 28:32
In 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s Woomera immigration
prison coordinated with 2500 outside supporters who had pitched camp
outside th...
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 29:10
Paris is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, wh...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR
- Added: Mar 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, we introduce a new topic, going “off-paper.” When
prisoners finish their time and re-enter the free world, they confront a
whole h...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 28:12
Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 30:58
Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 15:28
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
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
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Dr. Sarah Friebert offers insights on the grief at the loss of a child.
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
Heroin addiction has touched towns and cities across the Northeast. In this piece, WITF's Ben Allen goes beyond the numbers to talk to a family who...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:07
