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S1 E27: Monster America (Travels With Mic, Part 1)

  • November 16, 2016
  • Tagged as: Season 1, Travels With Mic

First in a three-part journey into the soul of America, through the eyes of working people who happen to be artists. In this episode, David Slater in Sag Harbor, New York, and Kalamu ya Salaam…

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S1 E26: El Nuevo South

  • November 2, 2016
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Siler City, North Carolina used to be a typical Southern town. Everybody was white or black. Now the town’s population is half Latino. One community’s journey through the “five stages of grief” – all the…

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S1 E25: Prince and Philando and Futures Untold

  • October 19, 2016
  • Tagged as: Season 1

How to grieve when the deaths come so quickly? How, as an African American mother, to protect your child’s innocence and hope? An audio essay by Stacia Brown. Photo: Stacia Brown’s daughter, Story. Photo by…

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S1 E24: None of Us Could be Thrown Away (Storymakers, Part 4)

  • July 27, 2016
  • Tagged as: Season 1, Storymakers

The last installment in our Storymakers series. Four pieces by citizen storytellers on living together, and apart, in Durham, North Carolina. By Vimala Rajendran, Chip and Teddy Denton, Courtney Reid-Eaton, and Nia Wilson. Photo: Members…

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S1 E23: That Old Optimism (Storymakers, Part 3)

  • July 13, 2016
  • Tagged as: Season 1, Storymakers

More from our team of citizen storytellers in Durham, NC. Stories by Courtney Smith, Katt Ryce, and Kimani Hall, exploring the things that unite and divide people in Durham and in America. Part of Storymakers:…

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S1 E22: The Way It Is (Storymakers, Part 2)

  • June 30, 2016
  • Tagged as: Season 1, Storymakers

Three stories conceived and made by citizen storytellers Jamila Davenport, Roberto Nava, and Debby Bussel explore race, class, and gentrification in Durham, North Carolina. Part of Storymakers: Durham, a project of the national Localore: #FindingAmerica…

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S1 E21: Finding America in Durham, N.C. (Storymakers, Part 1)

  • June 15, 2016
  • Tagged as: Season 1, Storymakers

    Can stories help to bring a community together?  How about radio stories, conceived and made by citizen storytellers? Introducing Storymakers: Durham, a project of the national Localore: #FindingAmerica initiative. Photo: A Story Circle…

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S1 E18: “My Dad and Me, in Three Songs”

  • May 18, 2016
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It can take a lifetime to make sense of a parent, or to get over him. Or, just maybe, to come to terms. By Ruxandra Guidi. Photo by Bear Guerra.

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S1 E18: “Close Relations”

  • May 4, 2016
  • Tagged as: Season 1

The people we love have power—the power to upend our lives, or at least to make things interesting. Two stories of surprises, curveballs thrown by family members. Pieces by Qathi Hart and John Rash. Photo…

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S1 E17: “Selected ShortDocs: Memory”

  • April 20, 2016
  • Tagged as: Season 1

A quartet of very short works exploring memory – most inspired by Third Coast Audio Festival ShortDoc Challenges. Pieces by Ligaiya Romero, Madeline Miller, Nan Pincus, and John Biewen. Photo: Harper Biewen, right, and her…

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Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico's "neoliberal period" is over, announcing a slew of new public works.

Continuing AMLO's Fourth Transformation, Mexico is building passenger rail, highways, airports, 200K+ affordable homes, and more.

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27 Aug

A solar take-off is on its way to being a pan-African story 🌍☀️

In the past 12 months, 20 countries across the continent have imported a record number of solar panels from China 📈 What’s more? Algeria recorded a huge 33-FOLD increase in its imports 🇩🇿

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-off-in-solar-in-africa

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26 Aug

Trump is more or less right that many people seem to want a dictator. They're his people.

As many as 3 or 4 in 10 Republicans endorse what is effectively unchecked power for Trump.

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22 Aug

BREAKING: A famine has officially been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods

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