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Before artist and performer Ise Lyfe became Ise Lyfe, he was Isaac Brown, growing up in East Oakland, probably playing Nintendo games like he is ri...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 1
The Citizens’ Police Review Board, or CPRB, was established in 1979 after two OPD officers killed Melvin Black, a 14-year-old African-American boy....
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 12:32
The last decade has seen more than a hundred officer-involved shootings – 39 of them fatal. When one of those shootings happens, OPD’s Internal Aff...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 08:12
California was the first state to adopt heat illness regulations for outdoor workers, but there are still violations, and there are still fatalities.
Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 3
We explore the role of the community in supporting moms to breastfeed their babies.
- Added: Aug 08, 2013
- Length: :47
In an age of big data, even police departments are getting in on the action. In Los Angeles, the LAPD are using software for what they call “predic...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Hark!, WTIP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KQED
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 5
Still more blurring of the lines between news and entertainment. Now they've upped the ante by using news programs to promote their own entertainme...
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KMXT, and WOUB
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 58:50
- Purchases: 3
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
Rape and rape glamorization is something that is splashed across cinema screens and adult magazines to earn a profit, but at the same time is also ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 07:53
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
When city budgets are cut, public transportation is often on the chopping block; routes and lines serving those who need the service most, can be t...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Pam McKissick and her three guests uncover the dirty truth about horse slaughter and give voice to "the other side" on behalf of 80 percent of the ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:43
- Purchases: 2
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
What we learned from the Senate confirmation hearings for Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense...told through narration, music and soundbites.
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 58:55
Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:28
A fence separates Hamden, a Connecticut suburb, from three public housing projects in the neighboring city of New Haven.
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 07:26
In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all execu...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 26:32
With one of the highest crime rates in the country, Richmond, California, is a regular on the evening news.
Zoom out to just California and that c...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
One of the areas hit hardest by state budget cuts is California’s judicial branch. Governor Jerry Brown and the Legislature cut $350 million from t...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:56
After decades of neglect, prison rehabilitation programs are seeing a resurgence, despite some hiccups. For California, this emphasis on rehabilita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 2
From Santa Monica to Seattle, several cities on the West Coast have enacted sit/lie laws. San Francisco began enforcing its Sit/Lie Ordinance in Ma...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 1
Cancer, the word terrifies us. When we hear someone we love has cancer, we panic, feel angry and fearful. Having personally had skin cancer, and kn...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 44:44
Before the media move on to the next phase in the horserace... the Biden-Ryan debate and the remaining two Obama-Romney debates... another look at ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 57:27
Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, two things shaped the Oakland Police Department. The city had one of the highest crime rates in Cal...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 10:07
A string of incidents that have pushed the Oakland Police Department closer and closer to a federal takeover. But to understand how the OPD got to ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 08:12
