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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: GOP Uses Assassination Attempt to Shut Down Condemnation of Trump’s Author...
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- Added: Jul 17, 2024
- Length: 29:00
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 17:56
Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:55
Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:15
When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 26:07
When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:41
Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 20:54
Ray is joined by Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Ada Ferrer, whose new book “Cuba: An American History” offers a new take on US-Cuba relations.
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- Added: Oct 13, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 02:43
Big triumphs are often followed by bigger letdowns. Our series premiere is about hitting a snag.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 16:11
Andy Piascik is a radical activist and author who’s written for many publications including Jacobin, Counterpunch, and ZMagazine. He is the author ...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 59:43
Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 27:06
In the 1920s, the United States enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, and many people assumed that poverty would be eliminated entirely. However, Mayor...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 28:41
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was committed to excising corruption from New York City. He battled Tammany Hall (New York’s Democratic machine) with fie...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 28:23
Tuberculosis claimed both Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia’s wife and daughter in 1921. His devastation over this loss coupled with the grim conditions...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 28:11
From the time he took office on January 1, 1934, until American entry into World War II, Fiorello H. La Guardia's public works brought about in New...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 28:45
“He told me she had stolen about 40 thousand dollars from people. Then he told me I should lawyer up."
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- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 12:32
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The 2013 Elections are over, and though the winners aren't a surprise, some of the insights are. Political Junkie Ken Rudin talks to NPR's Mara Lia...
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- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 08:00
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It’s the sixty-fifth time we’ve gotten together for a half-hour of top-notch entertainment!
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This episode we ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 28:02
In which Karen Pearl, President and CEO of God's Love We Deliver, explains the mission of the organization, and Hassan Mazyan Jr., a client, descri...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 02:58
The 2nd in a series of Conversation with the Newsmakers from around our region.
- Added: Apr 21, 2013
- Length: 21:11
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 29:01
So-called ‘quality of life’ policing may temporarily decrease crime, but it has harsh consequences for innocent people caught up in the frenzy of a...
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- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 29:00
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