Anita Johnson
- Username: Anita Johnson
- PRX Member
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Station-Based
Recent Pieces from Anita Johnson
Life During COVID
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From: Making Contact
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for example: As the United ...
70 Million: A Special Court Keeping Native Americans out of Jail
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From: Making Contact
Kirsten made her way out of jail and addiction with the help of a special court on the Penobscot Nation reservation in Maine. There, culture and justice work together to ...
George Floyd Anniversary & Reimagining Public Safety: Special YES!/PNS Report
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From: Making Contact
Minneapolis, MN - May 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd's death - captured on video ...
Grace Lee Boggs: Sister Revolutionary
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From: Making Contact
On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of ...
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
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From: Making Contact
On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin was a pacifist, homosexual ...
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
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From: Making Contact
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return the remains of two children ...
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill (Encore)
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From: Making Contact
Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence and made some worse. This ...
Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles
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From: Making Contact
Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund the police" became a ...
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
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From: Making Contact
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York pharmacy — reveal an ugly ...
