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Two stories that challenge the conventional approach to very different issues.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
There are historians within us all. The first-hand accounts in "Untold: Stories of a World War II Liberator" - written by Deborah Levine and direc...
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 58:50
Urban beekeeping is forging new paths in Detroit. Nicole Lindsey and Timothy Paule Jackson of Detroit Hives are generating a lot of buzz working to...
- Added: May 09, 2022
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
Faith - Gerald Alston is an American R&B singer, and the lead singer with The Manhattans. Between 1988 and 1995, he left the group to record five a...
- Added: Mar 16, 2022
- Length: 02:50
In this piece we hear people from Kenya, Argentina, the UK, Sweden, Finland, and the US talk about their mothers and who they are because of them.
Bought by WMPG and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 26:36
- Purchases: 2
Resilience - Michael Alig is an artist and party promoter, who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter. He was a co-founder and ringleade...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 04:07
Change - Doreen Bazile is a social worker. She sees many different patients with distinct needs and issues, regarding spirituality and religion, fa...
- Added: Jul 08, 2020
- Length: 01:24
Perseverance - Robert D. Siano, Esq. has practiced law for over thirteen years and is an experienced attorney that handles matters involving entert...
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 01:42
Boda Bodas are motorcycle taxis in Uganda. They are an inexpensive and efficient way to get around. Everyone takes them, but only men drive them. A...
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 15:19
Our final episode: listen to an American combat veteran recall Iraqi samoon bread, which he refers to as white gold.
- Added: May 27, 2018
- Length: 30:00
We’ll hear about Iraqi monuments kept hostage by US troops, denying access to the Iraqis to whom they belong.
- Added: May 20, 2018
- Length: 30:00
An Iraqi tells us about the absence of certain sounds in the Arabic language, and a veteran reads letters from her former grade school teacher’s cl...
- Added: May 13, 2018
- Length: 29:44
Glenn Boyd was convicted of a crime he did not commit. This episode of the California Innocence Project features another story about a bad identifi...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 05:00
The SXSW Education conference and festival in 2017 highlighted equity, fairness, and justice as a major theme. How does this apply to engineering ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 43:03
As indigenous people from Mexico migrate to California, their languages and cultures are threatened. One indigenous trilingual rapper based in Fres...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 21:37
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 01, 2018
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 1
Traditions. We all have them. Some good and, well, some not so good. Think for a minute. When you were a kid, what were your holiday traditions? Do...
- Added: Dec 28, 2017
- Length: 38:11
2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in ...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Nov 14, 2017
- Length: 20:31
- Purchases: 1
Episode 8: Houda & Melanie refer to Houda’s apartment complex in Tucson as Small Syria—16 Syrian families live there today, but a year ago there we...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 03:36
In Chapel Hill, there’s a farm that’s much more than just a spot to grow food: it’s a gathering place for refugees, including a group of Karen teen...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 27:14
- Purchases: 1
When Abby was born, her mother knew she couldn’t keep her. Luckily for Abby, a loving family had been looking for a child just like her. Julia Hitz...
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 03:13
In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 23:50
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can prohibit judges from openly asking for money to pay for their judicial campaigns. Life of the Law'...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 24:30
High schooler William Whittenbury attacks the dire situation of the endangered porpoise - the vaquitas. William hopes to change the fate of the vaq...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:03
Choral music often consists of centuries-old compositions. But one local group—the Singers Minnesota Choral Artists—has premiered more 70 new compo...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:03
