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Three opioid overdoses – including the death of a local youth – have shaken the Dillingham community. Residents gathered for a town hall, where att...
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 04:09
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
A Grand Rapids, Michigan man is using the power of instant shopping and delivery for good and sharing how he does it, with the world.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 13:05
- Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of GREAT Theatre Programming at the Onset of the COVID-19 Outbreak with Denny Smith
From: KVSCSeries: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, just as precautions within the community concerning the COVID-19 virus are beginning to have an effec...
- Added: May 10, 2020
- Length: 27:55
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Central Minnesota Ar...
- Added: May 10, 2020
- Length: 29:39
The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:58
Episode 31
Two years ago on July 28th, Houda’s family stepped off a plane into the intense Tucson heat. They weren’t sure what was in store for the...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:38
In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of...
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 28:32
In 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s Woomera immigration
prison coordinated with 2500 outside supporters who had pitched camp
outside th...
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 29:10
In this episode, we introduce a new topic, going “off-paper.” When
prisoners finish their time and re-enter the free world, they confront a
whole h...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 28:12
In 2011 the Dayton Correctional Institution became the third women’s prison in Ohio, when it was changed from a 500-bed male facility to a women’s ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 59:04
ALS: a heartwrenching medical quandary for both doctors and patients. As research progresses, one local doctor takes a positive approach.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 2
Veteran police major and executive director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) Neill Franklin discuss his journey from being Drug War en...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 15:06
Heroin addiction has touched towns and cities across the Northeast. In this piece, WITF's Ben Allen goes beyond the numbers to talk to a family who...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:07
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 11:00
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 21:09
It was three years ago that Katrina made landfall in the southeastern corner of Louisiana. Within a day, New Orleans was filling with water. But sm...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 08:26
While most of the international community has forgotten about the crisis in Sudan’s Western Darfur region – human rights’ activist Adeeb Yousif con...
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 51:59
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:38
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
This is a PSA focused on the dangers of secondhand smoke and a call to action for help.
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: :32
Terry's cell at Orleans Parish Prison became a drowning cage as the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina rose almost to the ceiling. As his drowned...
- Added: Aug 21, 2010
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
Interview with a single mom of two developmentally and physically challenged daughters on her struggles with the medical profession and the Childre...
- Added: Mar 12, 2009
- Length: 11:27
