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Alternative response teams are being asked to tackle vexing problems: mental illness, homelessness, addiction. How much can they actually do? We ex...
- Added: Aug 06, 2024
- Length: 37:34
Over the past few years, school board races have become more heated and more political — and books have become the center of that political storm. ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2023
- Length: 26:32
As the United States spread west, indigenous people were displaced without being given the most basic recognition under law: being "people." When t...
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 46:34
Jacob Wheeler talks about his book Between Light and Shadow and some of the nuances of Guatemalan adoptions. (English, 14 min.)
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 14:20
Iryiel Cochran shares her story about growing up as a Guatemalan adoptee in northern Colorado and searching for biological family in Quetzaltenango...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 18:21
Over the past four years, Qanon has grown by spreading misinformation through the internet. While many dismiss the fringe movement, some people fin...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 17:10
Richard reflects on the connection between his life’s work and that of his daughter Erika, who is leading the Biden/Harris transition team for the ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 10:30
Tania Chairez is a social entrepreneur and educator who grew up undocumented under the threat of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. In this episode, Ta...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 12:40
From: Motus Theater Boulder
Reydesel, a legally deaf undocumented college graduate, shares how he went from suicidal to successful after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arri...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 17:35
On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 04:59
City of Dreamers explores the lives of young people and immigrant families from Santa Fe’s South Side. First presented live, on stage at the Lensic...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 27:54
Teachers give academic and (most importantly) life advice to students. This is the story of a teacher, Melanie Mac, who is way out of her depth in ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 27, 2015
- Length: 07:48
- Purchases: 2
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:24
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 3
Prisoners sentenced to death in Washington State have a choice of lethal injection or hanging.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:58
Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:41