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Created December 13, 2020

Updated June 19, 2023

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  1. 70 Million

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    This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle
    SocietyCulture

  2. Aftereffect

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    A SWAT team, an autistic man, an American tragedy.
    NewsSociety

  3. Against the Rules with Michael Lewis: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried

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    From Michael Lewis and Against The Rules comes a special series – Judging Sam: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried. Judging Sam will follow the daily courtroom drama as the former FTX CEO is tried for financial crimes, with expert commentary from au
    SocietyCulture

  4. At Liberty

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    At Liberty is a weekly podcast from the ACLU that explores the biggest civil rights and civil liberties issues of the day. A production of ACLU, Inc.
    News

  5. Broken Justice

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    In 1997, Ricky Kidd was sentenced to life without parole for a double homicide he says he didn't commit. And he says his court-appointed lawyer is the reason. In the U.S. justice system, everyone has the right to an attorney, even if you can't
    True Crime

  6. Caught

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    Mass incarceration starts young. These kids say the system changes them forever.
    True CrimeNews

  7. Closer Than They Appear

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    How do you go forward when the past is breathing down your neck? Carvell Wallace talks to Americans grappling with the state of the union while trying to reconcile his own family's fractured history.If America is an estranged family, this show
    NewsSociety

  8. City of Refuge

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    This 10-part series from Waging Nonviolence explores a little-known WWII rescue story, showing what happens when ordinary people won’t ignore the horrors surrounding them.
    History

  9. Counter Stories

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    We discuss race, identity, social justice and culture in a region grappling with demographic changes
    SocietyCultureNews

  10. Dear Governor

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    Since his final state appeal at the end of last season, a stellar team of attorneys has assembled around Jarvis Masters, pledging to represent his death penalty case at the federal level. We will follow his riveting case and meet some of those
    True Crime

  11. Ear Hustle

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    Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show tha
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    SocietyCulture

  12. Generation Green New Deal

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    A new generation has pushed the climate crisis to the center of American politics. Generation Green New Deal tells the story of this youth movement: who they are, what they’ve accomplished so far, and where they go from here. Hosted by filmmake
    GovernmentNews

  13. Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast)

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    Formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast, Irresistible is a virtual practice space at the intersection of collective healing & social change. Host Kate Werning & collaborators share conversations with powerful social justice leaders, and accom
    SocietyCulture

  14. More Than Enough

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    The latest podcast from writer and activist Mia Birdsong and The Nation explores how a Guaranteed Income might actually transform people's lives.Mia Birdsong first heard about the concept of Guaranteed Income in the mid-90s through the 1967 w
    NewsSociety

  15. Orders in Decay

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    This is a podcast about disorder: about protest, riot and revolt; about law, the state and the international realm, It is about the people who revolt and disobey, about the ideas that bring people to the streets or explain why they are there, a
    News

  16. Scene on Radio

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    Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; 
    SocietyCulture

  17. Sounds Like Hate

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    Sounds Like Hate is a podcast from the Southern Poverty Law Center that tells the stories of people and communities grappling with hate and searching for solutions. You will meet people who have been personally impacted by hate, hear their voic

  18. The Stakes

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    The Stakes is a show about social change, hosted by Kai Wright. We live in extreme times—a climate on the verge of crisis, an economy built on inequality and a political system that feels like it’s falling apart. So, how’d we get to this point?
    SocietyCulture

  19. Stuff What You Tell Me! || Rebellion and Resistance in History, Art and Culture

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    Stuff What You Tell Me! is a podcast telling stories of rebellion and resistance in history, art and culture. Created by two contrary Australians living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we explore the wider role of rebellion in history, by delvin
    SocietyCultureHistory

  20. The Uncertain Hour

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    Each season, we explain the weird, complicated and often unequal American economy — and why some people get ahead and some get left behind. Host Krissy Clark dives into obscure policies and forgotten histories to explain why America is like it
    Government

  21. The Untold Story: Criminal Injustice

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    On seasons 1 and 2, we took a deep look into policing and criminal justice in America. This season on The Untold Story, we go even further, with three investigations of injustice happening in your own backyard. From executive producer Jay Ellis
    True CrimeSocietyCulture

  22. Hearing with Tali Farhadian Weinstein

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    Tali Farhadian Weinstein is a candidate to become the next District Attorney of Manhattan. She believes in building a criminal justice system driven by empathy, humility, and accountability. But how? She’ll start by listening.On Hearing, Tali -
    NewsPoliticsGovernment

  23. Dig

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    Louisville, Ky. once made ambitious promises to transform its police department and mend its relationship with the Black community. Five years later, Louisville police killed Breonna Taylor in her home, kicking off a protest movement unlike any
    NewsTrue Crime

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