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"This is the spot," Marilyn Evans says, standing in the empty parking lot of the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio.
The Women's Med Center is ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:08
Rows of silver and pink plastic packages sit on the bathroom counter inside Bean, a Louisville coffee shop. Each package carries these words: emerg...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
Seattle is one of the only cities in the nation to have passed an ordinance formally sanctioning tent cities. A lot of that success can be chalked ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 09:13
- Purchases: 2
Laws that required cops to live in the cities they patrolled were common in the early 1900’s and still exist in the United States today. However, s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 28:08
- Purchases: 1
The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
Gianluca Tramontana takes us to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and shows us around a favela ghost town in the shadow of the Maracana soccer stadium.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 08:05
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 ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 2
As the 2009 ACORN scandal quickly unfolded and funding started to dry up, the groups’ members and organizers had to jump ship. Many formed new loc...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
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
Crawford, Texas became the adopted home of George W. Bush during his presidency. But the small town west of Waco has undergone some big changes si...
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 03:25
Traffic congestion in the D.C. region is at an all-time high. That's forced many to get creative with their commutes.
- Added: Mar 14, 2010
- Length: 06:03
One East Oakland neighborhood decided to try a different economic model in their community. Time Banking.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2009
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 1
