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Season 1, Episode 18 - 'Placemaking For All' feat Mark Lakeman

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

How our cities are designed has a direct impact on our humanity towards one another.

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, American Revolut...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible (Updated)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...

Bought by WXDU

The Untold Story of the Richard C. Wilson St. Cloud Community Outpost

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits and then revisits the Rich...

Life of the Law #115: Ten Hours to Twenty Years

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...

Life of the Law #74: Overruled

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...

Life of the Law Episode #60: The Bear

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...

Life of the Law Episode #57: Drag.net

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix

The Square Deal

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

March of the Bonus Army

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, WRPI, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Buying Power: Corporate Money in Politics

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Job Creators, Credit: Brad Kayal

It began with an on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli. It became a major political movement, with elected representatives on Capitol Hill....

Keep Warm & Cut Your Costs: How$martKY

From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections

Because of historically cheap energy rates and lots of poorly insulated housing, Kentuckians’ average home electricity use is one of the highest in...

A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow

From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow

This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, and WZEN.org

Risky Business

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Award Winning Radio Programs

Patient Transfer Vehicles. They look like ambulances but they're not. Riding in one can land you in the wild wild west of unregulated care. 'Risky ...

Medical Marijuana - New Jersey moves bill, New Mexico's active program

From: Chris Goldstein

Caption: NJ Assembly Medical Marijuana hearing 6-4-09

Actuality Audio from the NJ Assembly health committee hearing on medical marijuana 6-4-09 and interview with New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance on the...

Bought by KSFR

Medical Marijuana: Georgine DiMaria, Miss New Jersey 2006

From: Chris Goldstein

Caption: Georgine DiMaria, 4/20/09, Philadelphia, Credit: C. David Freitag

Georgine DiMaria is titleholder of Miss New Jersey 2006. She has worked as a health advocate for 8 years. Her new platform is medical marijuana. Th...