PRX - Pieces for Tagging: San Francisco
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Styrofoam has long been the bane of environmentalists. In San Francisco, this harmful material is finally getting banned.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
There is a group of fruit loving, social-justice minded people who are breaking the law, all over San Francisco by illegally grafting fruit-bearing...
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:42
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 59:11
- Purchases: 1
In 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown only 1 in 10 people were women, and most of them were forced into prostitution, trafficked by criminal to...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 9
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 31:17
- Purchases: 1
Pastor Megan Rohrer plays a contemporary pop song as a launch pad for discussion.
Some heads nod to the beat, but it’s clear that this kind of mus...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 10:19
Every two years, San Francisco’s Soundwave Festival asks artists and musicians to focus their talents -- and their ears -- on one sonic idea. This ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:18
For some people, getting dressed in the morning isn’t about just throwing on what’s in reach, or clean. For others, it’s more of a ritual with atte...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 05:15
Sunset Youth Services is an organization that supports transitional age youth and their families with things like parenting classes, food assistanc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Shared mobility – it’s a concept that might be a little foreign to the millions of Americans who get in their cars by themselves everyday and embar...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Like many people who see a pretty rose in bloom, Annette Smith likes to take in the sight and scent of it. But when she bends her head to inhale th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 08:09
- Purchases: 1
At first glance, Raquel Miller has more than a few things in common with a Hollywood heiress. She wears her hair in long, soft curls or braids and ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:56
These days, more and more researchers link our health to our daily surroundings. Take for example, neighborhoods that sit next to freeways exposed ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:02
It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Sep 05, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:18
On this edition we speak with young artists of diverse backgrounds who use their independent experiences and creative impulses to talk about race, ...
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Blind since a hiking accident in 1971, Charles Blackwell has not let his disability prevent him from becoming a vibrant visual artists. In this seg...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
This segment offers a rare look at the sculpture in San Francisco's City Hall of civil rights leader and local hero, Harvey Milk; its sculptor; an...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 1
Street food is hot! But why are entrepreneurs turning to this option? For the owner of Chile Lindo, an empanada storefront, the answer is simple: i...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUOW
- Added: Oct 19, 2009
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 2
