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The life and thought of the first Confucian feminist.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 17:56
Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:55
When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:41
Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 20:54
This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled across the U.S. from 2019 to 2021. And the CDC reports that two thirds of teens who died had ...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Dec 01, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
As overdose fatalities reach two to three deaths a day in San Francisco, demands for supervised consumption sites are getting more urgent. But city...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Some San Francisco city officials are advocating jail for unhoused people who use drugs and murder charges for people who sell drugs. Critics say t...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco city officials have decided that arresting unhoused people for using drugs is the way to get them into treatment programs. Critics sa...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
While San Francisco is on track to break records for the highest number of fatal overdoses in one year, health experts say the city is failing when...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
San Francisco is experiencing its worst rate of drug-related fatalities ever, and as city officials impose increasingly punitive measures against p...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “Where do we go from he...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 58:00
One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 56:11
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
The first of 3 episodes in a mini-series on Hispanic American Swing Voters.
During National Hispanic Heritage Month, and in the lead-up to the 20...
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 31:21
Talking Alaska's elections and polarizing politics, launching on the state's 2022 Primary Day and Special Election Day. Featuring Independent Alask...
- Added: Aug 16, 2022
- Length: 29:14
Velina Brown talks popcorning ideas, saying no, and not wasting a good tragedy.
- Added: Jun 26, 2022
- Length: 14:28
In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 1
In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 04:00
Utah's Indigenous Communities share their experiences during COVID and quarantine.
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 21:51
COVID has increased pressure on folks struggling with substance abuse disorder. In this edition of COVID Diaries, Tamrika Khvtisiashvili checked in...
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 16:30
In this #COVIDdiaries entry, Asian Americans in Utah share their experiences as hate-crimes and hate-speech targeting them are on the rise.
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 22:40
Voices of Utah's Latinx Community on life during COVID
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 12:03
