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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
- Purchases: 2
"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 48:57
When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 32:45
Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 02:43
In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 22:47
From: When We Fight, We Win!
The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...
- Added: Aug 02, 2020
- Length: 58:23
Season 2, Episode 2
Part 2 of The Myth Justice is Blind to Money looks at one prior attempt to get rid of money bail, and how this attempt was thw...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 10:05
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 14
Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:21
Season 1, Episode 11
The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...
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- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:20
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 7
Congregants at a New Orleans synagogue study and educate themselves about mass incarceration and form bonds with formerly inca...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 1
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...
- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: 27:53
Searching for Meaning in Kensington
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 55:22
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 30:39
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 8
Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: 05:38
Online crafty marketplace Etsy went public in April 2015. What does that mean for the makers who sell their goods on the site?
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 28:50
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Rhode Island’s prisons are grappling with a dilemma. Hundreds of inmates have hepatitis C. New drugs can cure it. But they’re so expensive the depa...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 08:39
In 1964, Congress had a noteworthy Civil Rights Bill before it. But Southern Democrats, supporters of Jim Crow laws, were pushing a filibuster to k...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Students from the Radio Department of Columbia College Chicago dig deep into the growing tragedy of heroin abuse among young adults. In this half-h...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 28:58
Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:01
From: Free Speech Radio News
In Canada, people are rallying to support an Indigenous community in northern British Columbia that is claiming its sovereignty over the land and m...
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 05:39
Introduction to fish farming and history of aquaculture up to the Industrial Revolution.
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 21:36
