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"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 12:18
There is unspeakable anxiety that comes with bringing forth Black life in a world that takes Black lives with impunity. Our series began with a ref...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 40:49
As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 31:03
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How does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Does it end in a bang, or just fizzle out? What we know for sure is that this story is far from over.
In today...
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- Added: Jun 12, 2020
- Length: 30:01
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Melissa Dueñas’ dad went in-and-out of jail and prison her whole life. Whenever he was locked up, they would keep in touch by writing letters. She ...
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- Added: Aug 04, 2019
- Length: 16:19
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A limited series podcast produced by graduate students at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Calif...
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 01:15
Blaire, a DACA a student at Humboldt State University and a long-time resident, speaks of her frustration of not having the same privileges as her ...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 03:35
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On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 04:59
In “Palm Treo”, Brittany and Eric talk about the secret parties that the RA’s at Howard University were throwing in 2005. Their podcast “For Colore...
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 23:32
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 03:32
Why do we become our worst enemies when it comes to pursuing the things we actually want? I’ve been there. This is the origin story of making Mille...
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- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 20:31
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Following your dreams is not always glamorous, especially when you could get stuck in "transition."
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- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 19:28
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Decisions. How do you know which ones will lead you to become the person you want to be in the future? And which ones may screw everything up?
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- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 20:13
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Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:48
As seniors at Union Seminary, Richard and Jim are responsible for welcoming the incoming students through “round robins” hosted in the homes of fac...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:40
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:05
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 26:22
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17