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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 Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR
- Added: Jul 18, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
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
Part 2 of Sarah Marshall’s report on Warren McCleskey’s life after the Supreme Court ruling and his execution on September 25, 1991 by the state of...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 32:44
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
The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:43
- Purchases: 1
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
The story of how members of the mostly white Unitarian Church of Evanston decided to take a stand in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 16, 2016
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 2
“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
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:40
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
One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer g...
- Added: Oct 17, 2005
- Length: 04:20
A remembrance of a friend from junior high school who was murdered in 2000 by a chicago policeman
- Added: Jun 28, 2005
- Length: 34:33
- Purchases: 2