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Making Contact
“Making Contact” digs into the story beneath the story—contextualizing the narratives that shape our culture. Produced by Frequencies of Change Media (FoC Media), the award-winning radio show and podcast examines the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground, building a more just w...
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The City Displaced
We return to Norfolk, Virginia, where flooding and rising sea levels threaten residents, and the climate plan for the city could perpetuate harmful pa...
Port City, from Generation to Generation
In this episode, we'll head to Norfolk, Virginia, where flooding and rising sea levels are disproportionately threatening Black residents, while the c...
Saltwater Soundwalk: Indigenous Audio Tour of Seattle (Encore)
Today on Making Contact we present “Saltwater Soundwalk,” an Indigenous audio tour of Seattle featuring a watery audio experience, with streams of sto...
El béisbol is where we shine
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 the podcast...
Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers (Encore)
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 show, we t...
Miami's Battle Over Bilingual
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 bilingual a...
Black Panthers in Algeria (Encore)
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 newly in...
Beyond the Glass Wall
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was created in the aftermath of 9/11. To contextualize...
Culture & Spirituality As Substance Use Treatment in Indigenous Communities (Encore)
In the late 1990s, psychologist Dr. Joseph Gone, a professor and member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribe, returned home during his doctoral training t...
Crosswinds: Change
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 Wood. The...
Crosswinds: Friendship
We take a deep dive into coal dust air pollution in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, where trains transporting coal expose residents of predomina...
Geraldine’s Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia (Encore)
Black students with dyslexia all too often carry a heavy burden in our public schools. This documentary centers around a grandmother who fought for ye...
70 Million: Why Policing Our Schools Backfires (Encore)
School resource officers are often called upon in middle and high schools to help with routine discipline. But for many children, especially those wit...
Disability: Our Culture Ourselves (Encore)
In this episode we discuss disability, culture and identity from the perspective of disability communities themselves.
Seattle based activist...
Caring Relationships Negotiating Meaning Maintaining Dignity (Encore)
The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a combination o...
Decoding Algorithmic Racism with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble (Encore)
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, Algorithms o...
What does a Latino version of "The Bear" taste like?
On this week's show, we explore Latino food and culture in Chicago’s historic Pilsen neighborhood and hear about how food can bring communities togeth...
Mothers, Markets, and Migration (Encore)
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 in history...
A Making Contact Pride Show!
To celebrate Pride Month, we have a special show featuring stories from the Making Contact archives. We'll revisit the Stonewall Uprising with the 198...
Soul Force: The Legacy of Rev. James Lawson Jr.
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 the Civil...
East Orosi’s Long Struggle for Water, Part 2: The Role of Community Utility Districts (Encore) Description
Last week, we visited a community in California's Central Valley called East Orosi, which has been fighting for clean water for over 20 years. This we...
East Orosi’s Struggle for Clean Drinking Water (Encore)
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. In the Ce...
Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer
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 made immense...
Seeing Signs from Queens Memory Podcast (Encore)
For AAPI Heritage Month, we bring you an encore of our 2023 episode "Seeing Signs." With help from the Queens Memory Podcast, we'll learn about “Littl...
The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (Encore)
Composer, pianist, and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes tells us about The Healing Project. The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, exp...
Radical Therapy from Re:Work
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you a story at the intersection of therapy, healing and social justice. We'll hear about one thera...
The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering (Encore)
For Earth Day, we bring back a special environmental episode from our archives!
As we head into an ever warming world, some experts and politic...
The Calling
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 a convers...
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (Encore)
What is caste? According to author Thenmozhi Soundararajan, “caste is suffering. That one’s worth and fate are determined at the moment of birth. Forc...
Karinda Dobbins: Black and Blue (Encore)
On this week's episode, we speak with Bay Area based comedian Karinda Dobbins about the release of her debut comedy album, Black & Blue. In Black & Bl...
The Supreme Court Under Trump
During his first term, Trump stacked the Supreme Court with hard right judges creating a 6-3 split that led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a stunn...
Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment from Lost Women of Science
Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child developme...
How The First Home Pregnancy Test Was Born (Encore) Description
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young designer creating packaging for a pharmaceutical company. Looking at the rows of pregnancy tests she thought, “Well...
Ninety Seconds to Midnight: The Dangerous Philosophy of Silicon Valley (Encore)
A new philosophy steeped in the ideas of Artificial Intelligence, space colonization, and the long-term survival of the human species is gaining groun...
A History of Development and Disruption (Encore)
This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story of urban planning and how race has shaped American cities. In his book, Hella Town: Oakland’s Histo...
Exposed Part 2: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point from SF Public Press
In episode two of “Exposed” from our friends at the San Francisco Public Press, we explore a little-known chapter in San Francisco’s nuclear era: hum...
Exposed Part 1: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point from SF Public Press
Today we present the first half of a two-part radio documentary from our friends at the San Francisco Public Press, “Exposed,” opening a window into t...
Reclaiming Indianapolis’s Black History from Urban Roots
Today we head back to Indianapolis with the podcast Urban Roots.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Ms. Jean Spears was a young mother and burgeoning prese...
Madam Walker & the Rise & Fall of Indiana Avenue from Urban Roots
Madam C.J. Walker was a brilliant entrepreneur who built a haircare empire and became the first African American woman millionaire. You might have hea...
Art from the Inside: Why We Need More Art By And About Incarcerated Women (Encore)
On today's show, we look at how art can highlight the struggles of incarcerated women, build solidarity with them across prison walls, and fight again...