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Marcus Williams went to prison when he was just 17 years old. It was 1984, and “Miami Vice” and “The Cosby Show” were the hottest things on televis...
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 06:41
Every morning in the Tenderloin, when people all around San Francisco are starting to wake up, around 30 people gather at St. Boniface Church, wait...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 08:07
This year, Louisville, Kentucky has been marking the anniversary of a touchstone event of the Civil Rights era.
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 05:49
More than 150,000 people sign up for the US military every year. Their reasons for joining vary widely, from those hoping for financial help throug...
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 06:44
Community policing has been the official police philosophy in Oakland since 1996. Rather than police simply responding to crime after it happens, c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
Can trauma be healed with architecture and design? Eric Molinsky looks how Columbine, Aurora and Virginia Tech have changed.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 09:42
- Purchases: 1
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Inspired by the campaign to end South African apartheid, Palestinians are leading an international campaign to put economic and political pressure ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 29:00
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...
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- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This election felt divisive and strident and the feelings today are those of the victors and the losers, joyous and excitement for those that won, ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 49:10
Through the voices of mental health care consumers/activists, this story briefly explores some of the impacts of, and responses to, the closing of...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 21:19
I talk to legislator/poet Bill O'Neill -- nicknamed the Sagebrush Lizard by republicans at the Roundhouse
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Among the leading causes of homelessness in single adults is mental illness. Study after study reiterates that up to a quarter of all those sufferi...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
Boulder lawyer Beth Klein talks about human trafficking in Colorado. She defines 'human trafficking' and describes the magnitude of the problem in...
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 24:03
This weekend’s Moyers & Company starts with a compelling Bill Moyers Essay: Is it fair for parents to opt out of vaccinations for their children on...
Bought by KRDP, WMNF, WGCU, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 20
A short story from a Egyptian perspective who lives in The USA and visited his parents in Egypt just before The Revolution on January 25, 2011.
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 05:21
Sen. Chris Larson addresses a crowd on the capitol square in Madison, WI
- Added: Mar 12, 2011
- Length: 02:52
LaDarrell Hagans is something of a full-time volunteer for Deval Patrick's reelection campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. Although LaDarrell k...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
Chris Weller, host of Fret Knot Radio Hour, spends an evening with Larry Gibson in his cabin on Kayford Mountain in the heart of coal country. Gibs...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 32:46
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...
Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more
- Added: Aug 13, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...
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- Added: May 22, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We speak with activists and an MS patient who testified before the Senate Health Committee.
- Added: Mar 04, 2009
- Length: 29:31
It's time for society's believers to quit pushing their religious views on non-believers.
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 03:10
Prisoners sentenced to death in Washington State have a choice of lethal injection or hanging.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:58