All Pieces for Making Contact

 
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Students at several prominent historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), have demanded that school administrators address sexual assault...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
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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Uprooting Racism offers a framework for understanding institutional racism. It provides practical suggestions, tools, examples, and advice on how w...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: empty flight, Credit: Diego Cupolo, creative commons
This week, we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban. We later hear about how...

Bought by WRIR and WVAS


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Tenants of this Glendale apartment complex were given 60 days to cover rent increases of $750 or more, Credit: Monica Lopez
The stage is set for a battle between two worldviews. Is housing a human right, or a commodity? And where on that continuum is California’s common ...

Bought by KQED, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

Bought by WVAS, KUNM, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Guatemalans fresh off the "flight of the deportees"  are given a phone call to relatives by volunteer groups., Credit: Maria Martin
This week, Making Contact looks at The Cost of Deportations through the lens of one Central American nation that sends migrants north— Guatemala. W...

Bought by WXDU, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Film Artwork, Credit: She's Angry When Beautiful
For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...

Bought by WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Water barrels in an indigenous community within the Water Forest. Some residents wait up to two weeks for water trucks to appear., Credit: Maria Doerr
Fresh water is one of our most precious natural resources. This week contributor Maria Doerr looks at what's being done to protect the watersheds o...

Bought by KQED, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, hundreds imprisoned inside Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility refused to report to wor...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Albertina Gutiérrez and her 8-year-old son, Lester display photos of relatives., Credit: Maria Martin
The Seekers is the first in a two-part documentary series that examines the experiences of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the US. In t...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...

Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Colonialists, International Traitors, Think Carefully Before You Take Vietnam, Credit: To Lien (1978), Courtesy of Vietnam Victory Coalition
Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese Liberation Front inspired people of color around the world who were building movements for self-determination. Tod...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sápara indigenous leader, Gloria Hilda Ushigua Santi, speaks out against Ecuadorian government plans to drill for oil on their Amazonian territory., Credit: Amazon Watch
Gloria Ushigua and Aura Tegria, two legendary indigenous heroines of the Amazon rainforest, tell us about their activism to keep big oil and other ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Alex Vitale’s The End of Policing is a critical examination on the history of the police, and the police’s evolution as a tool for social control t...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Cash is increasingly being replaced with cashless systems including cryptocurrencies. This week, we hear about the political economy of blockchain....

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2