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California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli Evans, the first out lesbian on the state's high court, was raised by her grandmother in public ho...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Apr 04, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Exhibitions of spirit as one commits themselves to daily faith.
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 52:50
Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Season 1.5, Episode 2
In 1968, Yvonne Bechet became one of the first female police officers in New Orleans. She was also the first African America...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
See all these blankets and quilts and stuff? I got enough in here to keep me warm.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 04:16
- Purchases: 1
A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Public Radio for All
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 3
“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangba...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 26:22
- 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
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
