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Big Pharma vs The People: The Fight to Save America’s Largest Generic Drug Manufacturer

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

This July, America’s largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its parent ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR

Paper Marketing Materials

From: Walker Raigh
Series: Scratch & Sniff

Walker takes us back to the early 2000s when the printed materials were just as high impact as digital materials. She takes us on a journey through...

The heat is on

From: Brian Bahouth

Jessica Schimpf’s job is part weightlifting, part meditation, part sunburn. And that’s only half of what it takes to be a successful glass artist.

How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work

From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here

The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

The Man Behind the Projector

From: Out of the Blocks

It was a good living. If you can stay in business 53 years, that says a lot.

Bought by PRX Remix

Dem 2 Brothers & a Grill

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

The same people who told me it wouldn't work, they come every day.

Bought by PRX Remix

E's Barbershop Lounge

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.

Bought by PRX Remix

Chris Yun at Eddie's Lunch

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

It has to be fresh. I cut the fish and sell the fish the exact same day.

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New Beginnings

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

I got shot two times, and i walked out of Shock Trauma three hours later. It was made clear to me that my work wasn't done.

Bought by PRX Remix

Episode 116: Jessica and the Bunny Ranch

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In our last episode we spoke Cecilia Gentili, a trans Latina who worked for many years as an undocumented sex worker. Today, we get two more views ...

Episode 109: Homewrecker

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

It’s one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It’s another thing to try to ruin that stranger’s life. In 2015, Re/Max realtor...

Episode 108: The Numbers

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...

Bought by ABC

Episode 107: The Widow and the Winchester

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium rep...

From the Ground Up

From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California

Caption: Kateri Gutierrez at Collective Avenue Coffee, Credit: Photo by Ben Tran

Like many kids who come from working class immigrant families, Kateri Gutierrez felt a lot of pressure to get ahead. After a brief stint trying to ...

New Pine Valley Restaurant

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Prescription for Integrity

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

They've tried us all different kids of ways, but they know that we are strictly professional.

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Born in a Tornado

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

You can’t help it if you were born in a tornado. You’re going to have to learn how to fly.

Bought by PRX Remix

Bicycles Against Poverty

From: Travis Sanderson

In the global north, the bicycle is often perceived as a toy; something for kids or designed for leisure. But in rural Uganda the bicycle can be a ...

Kosher Bite

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

I am doing everything. I am not just chef cook. I am Russian cook.

Bought by PRX Remix

El Merengue Restaurant

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

I started cooking at 9 years old for my mother, my father, and 9 brothers and sisters.

Bought by PRX Remix

Antonio McDuffy

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

You have to command your area. This is my area. This is where I make a living.

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Episode 89: Shadowing Sheila

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to our first episode about Sheila, Episode 88: Cold Case, before you listen to this one. This episode contains descr...