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Normalizing Violence Puts Black Women’s Lives at Risk
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact’s fellow Rochelle Robinson brings us this story exploring how violence against women, especially women of color, is so pervasive tha...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1
Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today’s show we’re exploring how some women have been dehumanized to the point of indifference. We’ll learn how one community is undoing the sil...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Linda Siegal
From: The Summit
Series: Recovery Minutes
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Linda was lost in the darkness of addiction until her arrest led to intervention and a new life.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
I Stayed Even Though He Beat Me - Nailah Stevenson's Story
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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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
Women Rising #25 Activists Against Global Armaments and War
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Miriam Nobre, Credit: http://marchamulheres.files.wordpress.com/
We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence; Stella Soh, Kathy Kelly, and Miriam Nobre.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Identical Twins Meet
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with identical twins, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who were separated as infants and reunited in 2003 at the ages of 35. ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
A Domestic Violence Story: Reforming Offenders/Protecting Victims (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Caption: Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by KUOW, WCPN, KUOW, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 5
A Domestic Violence Story: Reforming Offenders/Protecting Victims (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Community Support for Breastfeeding
From: Giovanna Rossi
Series: Well Woman Radio
Caption: Hollie McNish, poet
We explore the role of the community in supporting moms to breastfeed their babies.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: :47
Equal Time Minute - Augusta National and Women
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the subject of opening Augusta National Golf Club to women.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Before Roe v. Wade -- The Price Women Paid
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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On the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the U.S., series host Martha Burk interviews ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
Culturology: Ghost Dancer by Judy Merritt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Ghost Dancer by Judy Merritt
Judy Merritt, author from the Nevis area of northern Minnesota, joins Heidi Holtan for a Real Good Words interview. Her new book titled "Ghost Danc...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 15:42
  • Purchases: 2
Author and Life Coach Michelle Phillips
From: Marc Lemay
Caption: PRX default Piece image
TBR Host Gina Ghioldi talks with author Michelle Phillips about changing both your outer beauty and inner beauty in simple steps

  • Added: Mar 10, 2012
  • Length: 17:38
Nuns on Trial
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A Vatican investigation into American nuns

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 10:27
  • Purchases: 5
A Child's View of Domestic Violence by Valencia McMurray of MPR News
From: YouthCast
Caption: Valencia and her mother, Charlene, Credit: MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
All Love Begins with Seeing: Poetry and Justice for All
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Shailja Patel
Shailja Patel’s unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres.

Bought by WCPN and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Visiting a Prison Nursery
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
What happens when a women gives birth behind bars? Usually those babies are sent home with family members or put into foster care. But some prison...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 4
Ann Wolfe - 8-Time World Champion Boxer
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Ann Wolfe with host Abigail Mahnke, Credit: Jeremy von Stilb
Ann "Brown Sugar" Wolfe is an 8-time world champion boxer who now owns her own gym. When Ann was young, her mother died of uterine cancer and then,...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2011
  • Length: 24:45
Acupuncture with Jade Fang: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Photo courtesy of www.acupuncturewinona.com/
On this edition of Culture Clique, we continue our coverage of Acupuncture with Jade Fang of Winona Minnesota. We will learn what acupuncture is li...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 22:22
Acupuncture with Jade Fang: Part 1
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Photo courtesy of www.acupuncturewinona.com
On this edition of Culture Clique, we get to know Jade Fang, a Winona Acupuncturist who opened her business a little over a year ago. Jade came to ...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:24
Hot Math -- Groks Science Show 2010-09-08
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Danica McKellar discussed hot math.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 2
Domestic Violence in the Hispanic Community
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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We take a look on why is the domestic violence a growing problem within Hispanics.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
Not Ready for a Box
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A woman decides to kick her drug addiction.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 4
Show Me The Way
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: Mary Van Pelt, Credit: Miles Eddy
Invisible social barriers and the contrast between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:36