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North Carolina's LGBTQ Community Stands Against Domestic Terrorism

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Join Laura Flanders as she speaks with residents of Moore County affected by a targeted power outage during a drag show, uncovering potential motiv...

Bought by WORT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR and more

883: Let's Celebrate Crying / 884: The Resilient Brain, 3/23/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Let's Celebrate Crying" - When was the last time you cried in front of someone? It’s human to feel grief and pain, but most of us learne...

War Diaries: From Kyiv to Tripoli

From: Mateo Schimpf

Audio documentaries from the front lines

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and KICI Iowa City

Painting the Town Safe

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: City activists are painting sidewalks hoping to encourage more street life in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy

Kolkata is often regarded as a city that has slipped behind other metropolises in India when it comes to money and industry. But the country's crim...

Bought by PRX Remix

LaMont Dottin

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

Hisako Hasegawa

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

Cesar Irizarry

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

Angel Garcia

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

Neil Harris Jr.

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

Are We A Democracy Or A Republic?

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?

Bought by Vermont Public

Gerrymandering

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

The line between fairly splitting a state into voting districts, and purposely grouping voters to give one party an advantage.

Bought by WKSU and Vermont Public

How Secure Are Our Elections?

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...

Bought by Vermont Public

Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

In preparation for the upcoming election, we’re going to talk about lies, manipulation, and confusion.

Bought by WHFR and Vermont Public

Why Vote, And How To Do It

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

We vote for our leaders, and those leaders represent our interests, but the impact of your vote isn't always so clear. Here's why you should vote a...

Bought by WYPR, WKSU, KSKA, and Vermont Public

(December 27, 2023 Re-Air) Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project: Tackling Racism & Rice

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WNYE

Special Report - Power Grids Under Attack: The Threat is Domestic Terrorism – Not Drag Artists

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Last December, an attack on two electrical substations in Moore County, North Carolina left 45,000 households and businesses without power for up t...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR and more

New Yorkers Welcome Migrants: What’s it Take to Make Sanctuary Real?

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

This year, New York City has received over 100,000 asylum seekers, including 15,000 unaccompanied minors. Most are from Latin America, where they f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more

A Pennsylvania man saw the true power of Atomic Annie

From: WITF

70 years ago, Tom Lambert witnessed the only time a nuclear device was fired from a cannon

Toxic Tracks (encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: The text "Toxic Tracks" on a background of railroad tracks., Credit: Background image by Hands off my tags! Michael Gaida from Pixabay

On today's show, we'll hear an encore of a show from our archives that first aired in April. We'll be looking at the environmental impact of the ra...

Bought by WXDU and WFHB

825: Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds / 826: Growing Justice, 9/2/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...

70 Million - Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Sandra Harris, photographed in her home. , Credit: Amarr Croskey

On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting m...

Bought by WUWM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN

823: Going For Broke: Change Of Address / 824: Up All Night, 8/26/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Change of Address" - In the first episode of a three-part series on the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Man...

BLACK LIVES MATTER meets BLACK ROCK CITY

From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man

One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.

Poisonous Legacies

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 23

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Long debunked -- the mythology of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Out of the mushroom clouds, nuclearism's dark expanding circle. And, the world’s latest n...

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