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Caption: Kevin Carlson ringside at Monday Night Raw., Credit: Tradeoffs/Leslie Waker
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:55
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Stuttering has long been the butt of many jokes. People who stutter are working to change that.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
Caption: Facing Eviction and Housing Insecurity cover, Credit: Shantanu Suman
Not every eviction is equal.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption:  WHA75 "Walk the Talk", Field Recording, Credit: Kate, Partners in Health
An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
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Kindness seems to have taken a backset to rampant racism, abruptness and violence. It's being selfless, caring, compassionate, and unconditionally...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:52
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"All this how’s-he-doing coverage is par for the course as we transition to the next administration, but someone’s missing from this picture of our...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
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"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: 07-(37), Credit: Becker1999
It’s been one year since a gunman opened fire in Dayton’s Oregon District, killing nine people and injuring 27.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:08
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NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 8
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The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. (00:03:30) "A bridge is only as strong as its weakes...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Robin Guerrero overdosed on black-market fentanyl, but now has found tremendous relief from pain and anxiety by using medical marijuana.
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 24:49
Caption: The Statue of Liberty - Tokyo, Japan - Travel photography, Credit: Photo by Giuseppe Milo.
The American Dream . . . Fact or fiction? For those who come to the U.S. undocumented as children, the future can seem uncertain.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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A limited series podcast produced by graduate students at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Calif...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 01:15
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One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Elena from El Salvador was excited to come to the United States but found her predicament for her and her son difficult. Not knowing any English, s...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Meet Alejandro. He discusses why he came here, the difficulties of finding meaningful work, his involvement with his community and his love for his...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
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If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 06:44
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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Sma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00

  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Darnell Moore, Credit: www.darnelllmoore.com
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...

Bought by WVAS and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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After we finished recording this episode over coffee at Safaa and Sedra’s apartment, Houda said that it was the most important episode we have reco...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
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This episode, two stories from the U.S. borders. The first, from Javier Zamora, who crossed into the U.S. without his parents when he was nine year...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 36:40