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Gender Ideology: A Pretext for Murder in Brazil
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Just days before the anniversary of activist Marielle Franco's assassination in Brazil, prosecutors there charged two former police officers with ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Indice de Suicidios entre Latinos. / Latino suicide rates
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Caption: PRX default Piece image
La Psicologa Millner habla sobre la incidencia de sucidios entre la comunidad Latina. / Psychologist Millner explains how common suicide is within ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: :30
Life of the Law #109: Unequal Protection - Part 2
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Warren McCleskey's last words, Credit: Sarah Marshall
Part 2 of Sarah Marshall’s report on Warren McCleskey’s life after the Supreme Court ruling and his execution on September 25, 1991 by the state of...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 32:44
Clinical Trials and Tribulations: Steve Hauser's quest to cure MS
From: Carry the One Radio
Caption: A B Cell, Credit: NIAID
In this episode, a team of researchers disprove a decades-old dogma. The result? The first ever FDA-approved drug for primary-progressive multiple ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 38:45
Unstable ice leads to a deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: New York State Police / Snowmobile , Credit: New York State Police
More than 30 snowmobilers and fishermen have died after breaking through lake ice in the northeast and Great Lakes region this winter. The toll wou...

Bought by WBFO, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 6
N.Y. snowmobilers add to toll in deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A sign on Conesus Lake directs sportsmen to an access point., Credit: Veronica Volk
In part two of a series on fatalities associated with thin ice this winter, we hear the story of two men who disappeared one night after taking a l...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 5
Life of the Law #99: Shaken
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Babyland
Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 30:58
Ovarian transplants are on infertility's cutting edge
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Ralph and Katy Panek were able to have children thanks to a donated ovary from Katy’s twin sister Carol Enoch., Credit: Courtesy of Carol Enoch
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 3
Halloween ... Past and Present.
From: Todd Crotty
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Ever wonder how the Halloween we Americans celebrate came to be? In search of answers reporter Todd Crotty ventured into the past to unravel the m...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:08
Mother of Bullied Student Calls for Justice
From: Georgia Public Broadcasting
Series: Bullying in Georgia Schools
Caption: Jaheem Herrera
It’s been two years since Masika Bermudez lost her only son Jaheem Herrera to suicide…. but the heart wrenching emotions are still raw as if he die...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:00
Prison Doulas-Supporting Pregnant Women Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
Soul Savers in The Big Easy
From: Stephen Grant
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, three men remained behind to rescue those stranded in New Orleans's Seventh Ward.

Bought by KVMR and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2006
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 2
Reaching the Autistic Child - Part 1 - Diagnosis
From: Karen Brown
Series: Reaching the Autistic Child - Diagnosis and Treatment
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Part one of a 2-parter on early diagnosis and treatment for autism.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2005
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 1
City Lights
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Members of China's floating population recount their hopes and challenges as rural-urban migrants.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 27, 2004
  • Length: 20:37
  • Purchases: 2