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In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generation...
Almost half of Puerto Rico's doctors have fled the island over the past decade, leading to a lack of specialists and treatment and incredibl...
Federal food programs, like WIC, face big changes coming out of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. Meanwhile, a sin...
For Black Maternal Health Week, we celebrate the important work that Black midwives do in their communities. In this week's show, we'll hear...
In the late 1990s, psychologist Dr. Joseph Gone, a professor and member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribe, returned home during his doctoral...
On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs (27 June 1915-5 October 2015). Through the lens of...
Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child...
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young designer creating packaging for a pharmaceutical company when a scientist gave her a tour of the lab. Loo...
Dr. Rebecca Crumpler was the first Black woman to become a physician in the United States. Working in the aftermath of the Civil War, she ma...
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute...
Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the l...
On today's show, we take a look at the life and legacy of a central organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an...
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famo...
From its birthplace in an Oakland cafe in 1994 to the Battle in Seattle, international reporting projects, and a deep commitment to social j...
About two million Guatemalans live in the US. But, half of those here lack legal status, and tens of thousands of Guatemalans are deported b...
In dozens of countries around the world, millions of people live beside border walls. These heavily militarized and closely watched areas ca...
On November 30th, 1999, tens of thousands of people shook the streets of Seattle, Washington, in protest of the World Trade Organization. Th...
In 2019 a well known romance writer began tweeting about other writers in her community and concerns about racism. It led to a huge reckonin...
In 2023, Kirin Clawson's endocrinologist placed a puberty-blocking implant in her arm, a medical intervention that is associated with improv...
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young designer creating packaging for a pharmaceutical company when a scientist gave her a tour of the lab. Loo...
Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child...
This episode honors the life and legacy of Alice Wong (Mar 27, 1974-Nov 14, 2025). We start the show with the Making Contact segment she pro...
In Episode 2 of "Exposed" from our friends at San Francisco Public Press, we explore a little-known chapter in San Francisco's nuclear era:...
Today we present the first half of a two-part radio documentary from our friends at SF Public Press, "Exposed," opening a window into the li...
We sit down with Kev Choice, a classically trained pianist, rapper, composer, and educator, who has reshaped the Bay Area music scene. Raise...
To mark Indigenous People's Day, we'll hear two stories about communities working with food to revitalize identity and ancestry. First, we s...
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so we are revisiting a show from our archives about criminalized survival, the crimin...
Almost half of Puerto Rico's doctors have fled the island over the past decade, leading to a lack of specialists and treatment and incredibl...
We return to Norfolk, Virginia, where flooding and rising sea levels threaten residents, and the climate plan for the city could perpetuate...
In this episode, we'll head to Norfolk, Virginia, where flooding and rising sea levels are disproportionately threatening Black residents, w...
Today on Making Contact we present "Saltwater Soundwalk," an Indigenous audio tour of Seattle featuring a watery audio experience, with stre...
On this week's Making Contact, we talk about baseball with the help of some Venezuelan players living in Peru. In a story brought to us by t...
Sixty-two years ago, a quarter of a million people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. On today's...
This week, we're sharing a guest episode from our friends at Project Pulso: Miami's Battle Over Bilingualism. The path for Miami to get as b...
This story is brought to us by the podcast Kerning Cultures. "Black Panthers in Algeria" tells the story of Elaine Mokhtefi as she landed in...
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was created in the aftermath of 9/11. To cont...
In the late 1990s, psychologist Dr. Joseph Gone, a professor and member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribe, returned home during his doctoral...
On this week's show, we'll continue with the podcast mini-series Crosswinds from the University of Virginia's Repair Lab and producer Adrian...
We take a deep dive into coal dust air pollution in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, where trains transporting coal expose residents of...
Black students with dyslexia all too often carry a heavy burden in our public schools. This documentary centers around a grandmother who fou...
School resource officers are often called upon in middle and high schools to help with routine discipline. But for many children, especially...
In this episode we discuss disability, culture and identity from the perspective of disability communities themselves. Seattle based activis...
The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a com...
On this week's episode, we dive into the hidden biases of the digital age with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, author of the groundbreaking book, Al...
On this week's show, we explore Latino food and culture in Chicago's historic Pilsen neighborhood and hear about how food can bring communit...
In this week's episode, we take a look at how over six decades after the Korean War, South Korea processed the most international adoptions...
To celebrate Pride Month, we have a special show featuring stories from the Making Contact archives. We'll revisit the Stonewall Uprising wi...
A year ago, the world said goodbye to Reverend James Lawson Jr. On today's show, we look back at the work and legacy this leading figure in...
Last week, we visited a community in California's Central Valley called East Orosi, which has been fighting for clean water for over 20 year...
In 2012, the state of California declared water a human right. Yet nearly 400 water systems don't meet the state's drinking water standards....