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For 22 years, Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted an entire month of free workshops, trainings, and outreach about HIV and AIDS. This year, Life of the L...
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 01:01:58
This week we take you to New Orleans, for stories told by legal scholars about what life's like as a legal scholar.
- Added: Jun 17, 2016
- Length: 01:00:41
France has been under a “state of emergency” since November, raising questions about the appropriate balance between security and civil liberties.
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 25:50
In the mid-90’s, Dr. Mark Rosenberg was leading gun violence research at the CDC. Republican Arkansas Congressman Jay Dickey, the NRA’s so-called '...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and XRAY.fm
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 37:50
- Purchases: 3
This is a story discussing the need for taking drone-flying training in order to be a drone pilot. In the story, you will hear a major drone traini...
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 03:19
Unwanted and old fabrics often get thrown away, but they have a large value to the environment and local communities when they are recycled.
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 03:15
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 22:45
This is a story about how leaders of charities and organizations that help people in poverty, are joining together to help lower poverty. A couple ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 03:42
We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 15:48
- Purchases: 1
Ever committed a crime? Were you caught? Arrested? Maybe not. Between a quarter and a third of all adults in America were caught and arrested. Now ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 14:44
- 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
Some people police their yards. Some people police their streets. And some people get together to police their neighborhoods. If you've ever been p...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 10:04
At disciplinary hearings in prison, inmates are not guaranteed the right to an attorney. In fact, they aren’t allowed to have one at all.
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 21:22
In the world of commercial media, it’s all about the ratings – getting as many people as possible to tune into your broadcast. The latest effort by...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 1
Most colleges require professors to hold office hours so students have the chance to ask for help. However, nowadays, students are less and less wi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 02:42
The internet is anonymous. Except for when it isn't. When someone wants to hurt you, they can find your address and other personal information and ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 17:03
- Purchases: 3
The Scottsboro Boys are infamous — nine black teenagers falsely accused
and convicted of raping two white women. Last year, the state of Alabama f...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 23:08
- Purchases: 1
The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
A Tribute to the late Cosimo Matassa who's J&M Studio and engineering skills recorded history and defined the way rock and roll would sound.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 04:28
Street Roots is a non-profit news outlet that has been addressing homelessness and poverty in Portland, Oregon since 1998.
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 03:27
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 07:12
Hoping to stem a high school dropout crisis, one Texas superintendent is luring many students back to school by giving them a taste of college cour...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:00
The annual Christmas Bird Count involves birders all over the Americas as citizen scientists tracking population and environmental changes. Miami, ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 02:55
Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...
Bought by WCSU-FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 3
The changing culture of concussions in youth sports
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 03:56
