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Free podcast of the award-winning public radio show State of the Re:Union. Each episode of SOTRU, host Al Letson travels to a new community to tell stories about the people who are doing ext...
In the last episode of State of the Re:Union, the team brings you a collection of our favorite stories from the road. Host Al Letson reflect...
The San Gabriel Valley is just like any other suburb in America. Life revolves around family and school; the social fabric is woven over che...
Poetry isn’t just words on a page. Instead it’s a form that lets people express themselves in a way that’s often far more deep, emotional, a...
The climate is going haywire, and politicians are bickering over what to do about it, or whether to do anything at all. But that’s only part...
When someone decides to transition from one gender to another, it’s obviously a big deal in their life. But what’s it like for their spouse?...
This year, State of the Re:Union recognizes Black History Month through the lens of African-American art, the role it has played in social m...
When a city’s murder rate goes up and stays high for years, what do community activists working against violence do? How do they keep from l...
In every community, there are certain characters that are familiar to everybody. They’re not actually famous– they’re just recognizable folk...
The SOTRU team brings you a collection of stories from the road. Host Al Letson reflects on the show and plays some of his favorite stories...
In our globalized world, it only takes a click to buy something from China and have it delivered right to your doorstep. But that product sa...
The United States has the world’s largest prison population. In 2012, there were 2.3 million people in American prisons or jails – and even...
It’s estimated that there are nearly 1.5 million people in the U.S. who identify themselves as transgender. That’s more than a million peopl...
Interior Alaska can be a forbidding place. The region is largely wilderness, covered with expansive stretches of tundra and towering mountai...
The U.S. has been a country shaped by migration, dating back to the days of the pioneers making their way West. But recently, this country h...
When Mormon pioneers rolled into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they brought with them a new theology, a short but intense history of persecu...
Host Al Letson and guest producer John Biewen (of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University) present a collection of stories fro...
For many Americans, Hawai’i is a tropical playground, the place of surf, sun and dream vacations. Behind the tourist façade, though, is one...
Even in diverse neighborhoods, it’s easy to go about our lives in a well-established groove, only interacting with the people we already kno...
In this National Poetry Month special, SOTRU explores all facets of poetry and its influence in host Al Letson’s life. We talk to poets from...
When you picture Vermont, you probably get a mental image of a pastoral scene of fields and mountains, maybe some maple trees. How about… mo...
When one city in upstate New York was having trouble with its economy, it came up with a big idea to try to solve the problem: making its ow...
Usually during Black History month, we remember civil rights icons and reflect on their legacy. But over the past couple years, SOTRU has me...
During a month selected to celebrate “history,” we certainly are treated to a lot of the same familiar stories: the battles won for Civil Ri...
What happens if you move to Portland, Oregon and you’re not into bikes or beer? Or if, say, you don’t even speak English? East Portland, a p...
Most of State of the Re:Union’s reporting is done right here in the United States, but today host Al Letson tells us a very personal story a...
In the 1970s, a prominent schizophrenia researcher named Dr. Loren Mosher noticed that the standard treatment in the hospital– medication, c...
A twist on SOTRU’s regular Dear City letters feature: for this special podcast, we asked Berta Britz, who has been hearing voices for her en...
Last summer, we visited Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a devastating racial incident in 1921 still divides the city today. That legacy has made it t...
For all you Portlandia fans out there, we hate to break it to you: the city ISN’T actually Portlandia… Except when it is. People there are v...
Among the most iconic landscapes in America is the Western Range, a stretch of millions of acres of land, much of it remote and undeveloped....
Tulsa, Oklahoma sits at a crossroads of American identities. In a special episode of SOTRU, we travel to the middle of Middle America to see...
Portland is a city that some residents praise as a kind of eden: full of bike paths, independently-owned small businesses, great public tran...
Back in 2004, staff producer Laura Starecheski visited a state mental hospital in Queens, New York, called Creedmoor. She stumbled on to a m...
In this American Graduate special, State of the Re:Union takes a closer look at school, community, and the dropout crisis in this country. W...
In this episode, SOTRU travels to Holyoke, Massachusetts, home of the Care Center. an alternative school just for pregnant and parenting tee...
More than two million veterans have come home so far from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. For returning veterans, reintegrating into society...
In this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, reside...
At this point in the 21st century, it’s kind of impossible to talk about community-building without, at some point, talking about the intern...
Jacksonville, Florida is a lot of things: a military town. A church town. A beach town. And it can be all those things because Jacksonville...
Tucson sits in the borderlands, the desert landscape where America and Mexico meet. This place is crisscrossed by boundaries, visible and in...
Every day in America, more than 7,000 students drop out of school. In a State of the Re:Union first, this episode combines radio drama and d...
The Community of Comics Episode In this episode we explore a community where when evil rears its head, someone finds a way to set things rig...
The Ozarks have long been an isolated part of the country. Steep mountains break up the landscape into hills and hollows, making each little...
Baltimore is a city of many neighborhoods, of intense divides—racial, class, and otherwise– not easily overcome. It’s a city bogged do...
Quaint storefronts along Main streets, covered bridges over clear streams, cows from dairy farms dotting green valleys: across the state, th...
The Tri-Cities are Richland, Pasco and Kennewick—3 cities clustered near one another in the vast plains and deserts of Washington state, to...
There’s been a lot of bad news coming out of Sacramento lately: homelessness, the foreclosure rate, unemployment, political gridlock in a st...
Cleveland, Ohio is a city that was made by entrepreneurs, but for decades, it’s been known as a city that’s a shell of its former manu...
People are few and far between in Wyoming. Those that do live here prize tradition, self-reliance, and their connection to the land. So when...
The Bronx has long been seen as a symbol of America’s failings. For many people here, ‘making it’ means escaping the crime and poverty of th...