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Local News: What Will It Take to Save It?

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Ghost Stores: How Grocery Chains Create Food Deserts

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The Origins of Zionism (Encore)

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A Promise Betrayed: Exiled Veterans

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Is Southeast Louisiana Doomed?

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Modern Parenting...The Latino Way

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Cruelty for Profit: How Private Companies Built the Immigrant Prison Industrial Complex

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Nobody Told Them: Veterans and the Broken Handoff

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Passing the Torch to Pacifica

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Kev Choice: Love, Growth, and the Power of Music (Encore)

11

The Ethical Dilemma of Geoengineering & Global Warming (Encore)

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Powerlands (Encore)

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The Coast Miwok Peoples, Colonization, and the Preservation of Indigenous History (Encore)

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Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec Myths to Modern Stereotypes (Encore)

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Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration (Encore)

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Thirsting for Justice (Part 2): East Orosi's Long Struggle for Water: The Role of Community Utility Districts (Encore)

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Thirsting for Justice (Part 1): East Orosi's Struggle for Clean Drinking Water (Encore)

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Reclaiming Indianapolis's Black History from Urban Roots (encore)

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A Making Contact Pride Show! (encore)

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Staying in the Fight with Ijeoma Oluo, from In the Meanwhile

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Mabuhay: Welcome to Little Manila in Queens (Encore)

22

Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism (encore)

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Radical Therapy (Encore)

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A History of Traditional Root Healing (Encore)

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How the Legacy of Colonialism Keeps Puerto Rico's Healthcare System in Shambles (Encore)

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Well Nourished: How Mutual Aid is Transforming Food Security for Single Moms in Ohio (Encore)

27

The Calling (Encore)

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Indigenous Intervention: Using Culture in Indigenous Substance Abuse Treatment (Encore)

29

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (Encore)

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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment from Lost Women of Science (Encore)

31

Buried History: The Woman Who Created the Home Pregnancy Test

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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer (Encore)

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I Am Not Your Negro (Encore)

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Remembering Fred Hampton (Encore)

35

Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers (Encore)

36

A Dream Remembered? Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement (Encore)

37

Origin Story: Making Contact | 30th Anniversary Capsule

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The Cost of Deportations | 30th Anniversary Capsule

39

In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona | 30th Anniversary Capsule

40

Trade Shifts: Reflections on the Seattle WTO Protests | 30th Anniversary Capsule

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The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story | 30th Anniversary Capsule

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Family Matters: How Communities Support Trans Kids in Conservative States | 30th Anniversary Capsule

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How The First Home Pregnancy Test Was Born (Encore)

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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment from Lost Women of Science (Encore)

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Disability Visibility: Celebrating the Voice of Alice Wong

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Exposed Part 2: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter's Point from SF Public Press

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Exposed Part 1: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter's Point from SF Public Press (Encore)

48

Kev Choice: Love, Growth, and the Power of Music (Encore)

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The Way Home (Encore)

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Criminalized Survival (Encore)

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How the Legacy of Colonialism Keeps Puerto Rico's Healthcare System in Shambles (Encore)

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The City Displaced

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Port City, from Generation to Generation

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Saltwater Soundwalk: Indigenous Audio Tour of Seattle (Encore)

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El béisbol is where we shine

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Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers (Encore)

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Miami's Battle Over Bilingual

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Black Panthers in Algeria (Encore)

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Beyond the Glass Wall

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Culture & Spirituality As Substance Use Treatment in Indigenous Communities (Encore)

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Crosswinds: Change

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Crosswinds: Friendship

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Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia (Encore)

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70 Million: Why Policing Our Schools Backfires (Encore)

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Disability: Our Culture Ourselves (Encore)

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Caring Relationships Negotiating Meaning Maintaining Dignity (Encore)

67

Decoding Algorithmic Racism with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble (Encore)

68

What does a Latino version of "The Bear" taste like?

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Mothers, Markets, and Migration (Encore)

70

A Making Contact Pride Show!

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Soul Force: The Legacy of Rev. James Lawson Jr.

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East Orosi's Long Struggle for Water, Part 2: The Role of Community Utility Districts (Encore) Description

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East Orosi's Struggle for Clean Drinking Water (Encore)

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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer

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Seeing Signs from Queens Memory Podcast (Encore)

76

The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore)

77

Radical Therapy from Re:Work

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The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering (Encore)

79

The Calling

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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (Encore)

81

Karinda Dobbins: Black and Blue (Encore)

82

The Supreme Court Under Trump

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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment from Lost Women of Science

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How The First Home Pregnancy Test Was Born (Encore) Description

85

Ninety Seconds to Midnight: The Dangerous Philosophy of Silicon Valley (Encore)

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A History of Development and Disruption (Encore)

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Exposed Part 2: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point from SF Public Press

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Exposed Part 1: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point from SF Public Press

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Reclaiming Indianapolis's Black History from Urban Roots

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Madam Walker & the Rise & Fall of Indiana Avenue from Urban Roots

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Art from the Inside: Why We Need More Art By And About Incarcerated Women (Encore)

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Borders: What are they good for? (Encore)

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Jenny Odell on Saving Time (Encore)

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Decoding Algorithmic Racism with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble

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Art from the Inside: Why We Need More Art By And About Incarcerated Women

96

Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec Myths to Modern Stereotypes (Encore)

97

The Problematic History of Gender Testing at the Olympics (Encore)

98

Mothers, Markets, and Migration: How South Korea Became a Major Source for International Adoptions

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We need affordable housing now! (Encore)

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Kev Choice: Love, Growth, and the Power of Music