Five years after Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they’re gaining serious momentum to shut down the city’s notorious Workhouse jail. This episode received a 2020 Third Coast International Audio Festival Award.
Through a series of open and honest audio diaries, Folashade Olatunde shares a story about trauma and self-discovery as she invites listeners on her journey to rebuild her relationship with her dad, who’s been in prison since she was two years old. This segment received a 2022 Gracie Award for best radio documentary.
When 17-year-old Fanta Kaba was growing up, her family moved around a lot — until they finally found stability in public housing. But now, a controversial plan is changing the way the New York City Housing Authority operates. NYCHA, the largest public housing program in the country, is bringing private companies in to to manage public housing units.
A look into the St. Louis Circuit Court’s relationship with EMASS — a private, for-profit monitoring company that collects fees from people awaiting trial and threatens to have them sent back to jail if they can’t pay.
What does it feel like when your neighborhood is starting to gentrify? Can “home” be a place you’ve never even visited? And why are private developers getting involved in New York City’s public housing projects? In this series, NYC teens explore these questions and more.
Stories from NYC teens about restorative justice, the NYPD gang database, reconnecting with an incarcerated father, imagining a world without police and trying to feel safe as a young Black girl in America
Mexican officials who oversee migrant shelters in Juárez, Mexico, said they’ve seen more Cubans arriving since late last year. Reported during a three-week International Women’s Media Foundation fellowship along the United States–Mexico border in 2019.