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Toxic Tracks (encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: The text "Toxic Tracks" on a background of railroad tracks., Credit: Background image by Hands off my tags! Michael Gaida from Pixabay

On today's show, we'll hear an encore of a show from our archives that first aired in April. We'll be looking at the environmental impact of the ra...

Bought by WXDU and WFHB

Best of Making Contact, 2021

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

In this special year-end episode, Making Contact producers and staff turn the spotlight on some the best shows they aired in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

A Tale of Two Mountains

From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind

Who gets to name things? Two western peaks named for the confederate president work their way through a bureaucratic name-changing process.

Re:Work Radio: Trafficked, the Journey of Lester Ramos

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

An American Mosque

From: Monique Parsons

Caption: The Prayer Center of Orland Park sits on a hilltop 35 miles southwest of Chicago. , Credit: Alyssa Schukar

An inside look at an American mosque: the story of two men who set out to build a "model mosque" in the suburbs of Chicago.

Bought by PRX Remix

Bought and Sold

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

Caption: Javille Sutton was a 14-year-old runaway when she accepted a ride from a pimp who sold her across the country for the next six years. She was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. She now counsels girls at a horse ranch for young victims of trafficking.

Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in sex trafficking as victims...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WRIR, WEKU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

#5 Period Piece

From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Sick

Lisa De Bode got curious about how homeless women deal with menstruation, so she wrote a story on it. Then, things started to change. Plus, Jake l...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Water Pressure 4: Water's Taking it Back

From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure

Caption: Melting Alaskan glacier, Credit: Rupa Shenoy

Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

What impacts are tech companies really having on San Francisco’s mid-Market district?

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Del Seymour leads a group of tech workers on one of his Tenderloin tours, Credit: Angela Johnston

Del Seymour makes sure to take everybody on his walking tours of the Tenderloin to the corner of Turk and Taylor...

The Rapidly Changing City of Shanghai (Feature)

From: With Good Reason

China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...

Roots Thinning In Rural America

From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America

Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.

A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix

The Mysterious Life of the Rubber Ducky

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

Rubber Duckies aren't just an old fashioned bathtub toy.

Bought by PRX Remix

The Rise of Phoenix: For-Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: A class at the University of Phoenix's Hohokam campus in Arizona. Phoenix is the nation's largest for-profit university and largely serves working adults. , Credit: Brian Pobuda/University of Phoenix

The rapid rise of career-oriented, for-profit colleges and universities has provoked heated debate about the costs, quality and purpose of higher e...

Bought by WTIP

Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools

Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Thousands look to the skies for Endeavour's victory lap

From: Valerie Hamilton

Caption: Space fans give SS Endeavour a thousand-camera salute, Credit: Marcus Teply

Space shuttle Endeavour took a final victory lap over California landmarks Friday, piggybacked on top of a NASA 747 on its way to retirement at the...

Bought by KPIK-LP and KMUZ

Cities Underwater: Venice and New Orleans Seek Solutions

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Two historic jewels: New Orleans & Venice, Italy are struggling to plan for sea level rise, in cities that already routinely flood because of quest...

Bought by WZEN.org and Yellowstone Public Radio

Southern Sudanese in Kenya vote for a new country

From: Becky Palmstrom

Caption: A pastor at a Southern Sudanese church in a refugee camp in Kenya., Credit: Becky Palmstrom

As the newest country in the world celebrates, Becky Palmstrom travels to Kenya to hear the prayers and songs of the refugees waiting to return to ...