PRX - Pieces for Topic: Public Affairs
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Two-way interview with author Deborah G. Plant about her new book, Of Greed & Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
- Added: Feb 17, 2024
- Length: 17:22
A legal matrix that incentivizes criminal convictions can motivate unethical prosecutors to bend or break the rules. In New York, a group of law pr...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 29:00
“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really st...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 33:00
After decades of economic inequality ravaged the population of mostly African-American residents, the outcome of the coronavirus outbreak was predi...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 2
Season 2, Episode 6
Victim/Criminal tells the story of Hakeem Carter, who was brutally attacked while walking home from work one night. This trau...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 24:40
- 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
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
I opened the door and tried to push him out. That’s when he fired the first shot.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
One of my most popular shows of 2017. Originally produced in April 2017.
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Unless yo...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 01:10:04
What’s it like to be a teenager sent to prison for what may be forever, and what’s it like to be his mom?
Our story is Mother and Son.
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 37:45
Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 28:10
We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into
the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story
of Si...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:54
This week’s episode focuses on the importance of education in prison. We speak with Dr. Scarlett Brooks, who has taught English and writing in seve...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:07
This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charg...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 29:57
We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 29:31
“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
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
Why are so many of those killed by police young people of color? A recent ProPublica investigation found that a young black male is at twenty one t...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRIR
- Added: Feb 14, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Award-winning producer, Dred-Scott Keyes takes us through an audio journey of the events and issues which led to the death of Trayvon Martin, the 1...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 58:30
In an age when handguns are bought and sold for less than twenty-dollars on urban street corners and the price of a human life sometimes seems even...
- Added: Dec 08, 2008
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
