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If you think we live in a post-racial world…think again: statistically speaking, being born Black or Latino or Native American is associated with s...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 50:27
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 08:43
In November of 1923, a Soviet composer named Arseny Avraamov stepped onto a Moscow rooftop clutching two oversized flags. His plan: to conduct an ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 13:44
- Purchases: 1
An investigation into the stuff that makes anything digital actually possible: rare earth minerals. Host Benjamen Walker uncovers the dark story be...
Bought by KUT and WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
In the nether regions of New Jersey is a summer camp that uses pianos and shovels to break social barriers...they've been at it since the 1960s.
A...
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 09:16
Latitude News Podcast #7 — From War on Drugs to legal weed, where will the U.S. lead the world next?
From: Latitude News
A short, strange history of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico and everywhere else
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 15:06
- Purchases: 1
Islam and Mormonism — not exactly a perfect pair? Actually, these two religions have a striking similarity: both are marginalized in American socie...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 13:10
Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough.
Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 51:01
Reese Erlich brings us a special report from Libya on the chaos that remains in the wake of the overthrow of hated dictator Muammar Gaddafi. While ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Miranda Loud interviews painter Gary Dunn on the edge of Brooklyn's Prospect Park - asking him to share his ideas about the role public parks play ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 05:14
What happens when your land sits on top of a rich natural gas deposit, but you don't own the mineral rights. In Wetzel County, West Virginia, many ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 07:05
For students locked up in Maine's Long Creek Youth Development Center passing notes is a crime... and an art form. Jacorey investigates.
Bought by The Story, KUOW, Public Radio Remix, KUT, and YouthCast
- Added: Dec 31, 2011
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 5
Was mainstream media in cahoots with government forces in the lead up to the Iraq War? In his film, “The War You Don’t See,” Australian journalis...
- Added: Sep 06, 2011
- Length: 29:00
How a small community of gold miners in the Colombian jungle is fighting to turn a toxic industry into a green and global market.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 34:24
Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Narcissists and Sociopaths have always been among us and yet recent research brings us new understanding of just what these serious emotional disab...
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 47:10
The city of Syracuse, NY, has a food desert -- a lack of grocery stores that sell fresh produce -- which leaves residents to corner stores and pack...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Jan 16, 2011
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 1
From: Radio Diaries
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
- Added: Oct 12, 2010
- Length: 22:59
- Purchases: 6
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...
- Added: Sep 02, 2010
- Length: 29:04
Terry's cell at Orleans Parish Prison became a drowning cage as the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina rose almost to the ceiling. As his drowned...
Bought by KUMD, Public Radio Remix, and WMNF
- Added: Aug 21, 2010
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 2
April 16, 2009 - On any given day, 30,000 people are being held in detention centers across the country. With plans to expand the Northwest Detenti...
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 08:36
Venezuela is undergoing a modern day revolution. Workers, small farmers and the poor consistently vote for socialist President Hugo Chavez. Econom...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:59
When we run out of ways to deal with a troubled child, often that child ends up in prison. In Illinois, thousands are incarcerated every year. We i...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Apr 28, 2010
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 1
