Episodes
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In this episode, we take a deep dive into Indigenous resistance against extractivism and the forces behind climate change. We'll look at an underreported story in California about the Amah Mutsun Ohlone's fight to save their most sacred site — a place called Juristac. Contributors Robert Raymond and Della Duncan explore the horrific injustices wrought upon California Indians since the time of the Spanish Missions up to the present and focus on how the Amah Mutsun are working to regenerate their culture, language, and land.
_Special thanks to The Satterberg Foundation & Upstream Podcast._
Featuring:
- **Valentin Lopez,** Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
- **Eleanor Castro,** Amah Mutsun Elder
Credits:
Episode Producers: Della Duncan and Robert Raymond
The Making Contact Team
Host: Monica Lopez Executive Director: Jina Chung Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain Engineer: Jeff EmtmanMusic Credits:
Chris Zabriski, BRONCHO, Xlyo Ziko, Inaequalis, Meydan
Learn More:
Protect Juristac Campaign County Of Santa Clara, Dept. of Planning and Development Sargent Quarry Ahmah Mutsun Land TrustMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 week we turn our attention to their sewage system, which is also falling apart. Why has it been so difficult for East Orosi to get clean drinking water and fix its sewage problems? To answer that question, we take a look at the community utility districts that run sewage and water in unincorporated towns all across California. We'll discuss their problems as well as ways to save them. This show first aired in August 2024.
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Credits:
**Episode Credits:**
- Episode Host: Salima Hamirani
- Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang
- Executive Director: Jina Chung
- Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
- Engineer: [Jeff Emtman](http://www.jeffemtman.com/)
- Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain
Voiceovers
- Ana Portnoy Brimmer
- Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Music Credits
- Komiko – Blue
- PC III – Ocean Tapping
- Alpha Hydrae – Friends and Apples
- Hicham Chahidi – Gouttes
- Ben von Wildenhaus – Week Twenty-five
- Ketsa – No Light Without Darkness
- The Custodian of Records – Thunderstorm
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Making Contact: https://focmedia.org/ Community Water Center: https://www.communitywatercenter.org/ Self-Help Enterprises: https://www.selfhelpenterprises.org/Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 Central Valley, the community of East Orosi hasn't had safe tap water in over 20 years. The water is full of harmful nitrates and other runoff from industrial agriculture. We visit East Orosi and talk to Berta Diaz Ochoa and others about what it's like living without access to clean drinking water and how the community has taken action to find a solution. This episode originally aired in July 2024.
Credits:
**Making Contact Credits**
Episode host and producer: Salima Hamirani
Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang
Executive Director: Jina Chung
Engineer: [Jeff Emtman](http://www.jeffemtman.com/)
Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain
Voiceovers
- Amy Gastelum
- Bobbi James
- Ana Portnoy Brimmer
- Alex Corey
Music Credits:
- Komiku – Blue
- Monet's Water Lilies
- Dark Rainy Day
- Water Drops, Sad Slow Piano Background
- Mother Womb piano
- Guracha Sonidera Cumbia Loops De Bateria Series II
Learn More:
Making Contact homepage: www.focmedia.org
Community Water Center
Self Help Enterprises
State Water Resources Control Board
Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 preservationist. She saved antiques from houses about to be demolished; she bought a home in a white slum and renovated it; later on, she did the same with a historic home in the black neighborhood near Indiana Avenue. In the eighties, she and some neighbors started digging into this black neighborhood's history, uncovering the names of Black doctors, civic leaders, and other professionals who had lived there, many of whom had worked for Madam C.J. Walker. She helped rename the neighborhood to Ransom Place, in honor of Freeman Ransom, Madam Walker's prodigious lawyer. And in 1991, they succeeded in getting the Ransom Place Historic District included in the National Register of Historic Places.
Thanks in no small part to the connection to Madam C.J. Walker, Jean Spears was able to save this pocket of Black history, in an area that — as we explained last episode — the city of Indianapolis had almost erased from memory. But black Indy history is about more than Madam Walker, and other stories and places in the city need protection, too. In this episode, we'll introduce you to three Black women who are carrying on what Ms. Jean Spears started — safeguarding these little-known stories of the past and guiding Indianapolis toward a brighter future.
Featuring:
Claudia Polley, Urban Legacy Lands Initiative | Kaila Austin, artist and historian | Judith Thomas, Deputy Mayor of Neighborhood Engagement for the City of Indianapolis | Paula Brooks, the Environmental Justice Program Manager at the Hoosier Environment Council
Credits:
Urban Roots Podcast:
Urban Roots unearths little-known stories from urban history, especially histories of women and people of color that are in danger of being forgotten. Our mission is to elevate underrepresented voices and help preserve the places significant to them.
Hosts and Executive Producers: Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and Vanessa Maria Quirk
Editor and Executive Producer: Connor Lynch
Mixer: Andrew Callaway.
Music/Composer: Adaam James Levin-Areddy.
Making Contact Credits
Episode Host: Salima Hamirani
Executive Director: Jina Chung
Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Engineer: Jeff Emtman
Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain
**Music Credits**
Roman- Galaxy (inspired up melody)
Will Bangs - I'm so glad you exist
Learn More:
Part 1: Madam Walker & the Rise and Fall of Indiana Avenue | Urbanist Media
Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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To celebrate Pride Month, we have a special show featuring stories from the Making Contact archives. We'll revisit the Stonewall Uprising with the 1989 audio documentary _Remembering Stonewall_, and then head to the gay rodeo with producer Vanessa Rancaño in a story from 2014.
Credits:
Making Contact Credits
Episode host and producer: Lucy Kang
Executive Director: Jina Chung
Engineer: Jeff Emtman
Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain
Music credit: "Minimal Documentary" by penguinmusic via Pixabay
Bleep sound effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
Remembering Stonewall: The birth of a movement (1989)
Narrated by Michael Schirker
Produced by David Isay
Distributed by Pacifica Radio Archives
"All Around Cowboy: Inside the world of queer rodeo" Credits
Story producer and host: Vanessa Rancaño
This show was part of a partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Special thanks to Claire Schoen
Learn More:
Making Contact homepage: http://ww.focmedia.org
Remembering Stonewall on Pacifica Radio Archives: https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/pz0146
Making Contact episode "All Around Cowboy: Inside the world of queer rodeo"
https://focmedia.org/2014/06/all-around-cowboy-inside-the-world-of-queer-rodeo/
Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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In this special guest episode from the podcast In the Meanwhile, co-hosts Marcus Harrison Green and Nora Kenworthy sit down with author and activist Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race; Mediocre: the Dangerous Legacy of White Male America; Be a Revolution) for a searching conversation about movement work, harm, belonging, and the radical choice to stay. Together, they explore the personal cost of speaking truth, the wounds movements can inflict on their own, and what it means to build the world we long for now—not after revolution, but through the way we live, love, and struggle every day. It's a deeply honest conversation about survival, accountability, joy, and choosing community even when it hurts.
Featuring:
Ijeoma Oluo
Credits:
Making Contact Team
Episode host and producer: Jessica Partnow
Executive Director: Jina Chung
Engineer: Jeff Emtman
Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain
In the Meanwhile
Co-hosts: Marcus Harrison Green, Nora Kenworthy
Music: No Tears for a Wolf · Ahamefule J. Oluo · Okanomodé.
Logo by Nikki Barron.
Producer: Jessica Partnow
Learn More:
If You Decide To Stay | Behind the Book | Be a Revolution | So You Want to Talk About Race | Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America | In the Meanwhile Podcast |
Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 "Little Manila," a Filipino neighborhood dating back to the 1970s that still struggles to find its political footing. We also hear from Filipino care workers about their experiences battling COVID 19. This episode first aired on Making Contact in May 2023.
Featuring:
- Potri Ranka Manis: Nurse, Activist and Artist
- Joey Golja: Community Member
- Mary Jane de Leon: Community Member
- John Bahia: Community Member
- Steven Raga: Assemblymember for District 30, Queens, NY
- Jaclyn Reyes: Artist, Designer, and Cultural Organizer
- Gemma Balagtas: Community Member, Nurse
- Zenaida (Ida) Castillo: Community Member and Owner of PhilAm Food Mart
Credits:
Making Contact
Episode host and producer: Amy Gastelum Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa DeonarainQueens Memory Podcast Team
Producers: Rosalind Tordesillas, Melody Cao, Anna Williams, and Natalie Milbrodt Mixing and editing by Cory Choy Music composed by Elias Ravin Voiceover work by Arianne ArregladoLearn More:
Making Contact homepage: https://focmedia.org/
Listen to Season 3 of the Queens Memory Podcast:
https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826 https://open.spotify.com/show/2cnAhpl3RDOQTC0HXOQnPd https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/queens-memory-our-major-minor-voices/id1617641711Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. The issues these activists work on often impact their personal lives, and people who work in the service of others are particularly at risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. Self-care becomes a "selfless act" when it allows activists to stay healthy and do their work in a sustainable way. This show first aired in August 2020.
Featuring:
**Paulina Velasco's** reporting on Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism was undertaken as a USC Center for Health Journalism 2020 California Fellow.
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Writer, Producer, Host: Paulina Velasco Editor: Monica Lopez Voice Over Actor: Mariana Carstens Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain Transcription Volunteer: Mickey Ellinger Special thanks to USC Senior Fellow, Catherine Stifter.Music
" Elmore Heights", Blue Dot Sessions – 2018 – Skittle " Kid Kodi", Blue Dot Sessions – 2018 – Skittle " The Yards", Blue Dot Sessions – 2018 – Skittle " Copley Beat", Blue Dot Sessions – 2018 – Skittle " Greylock", Blue Dot Sessions – 2018 – Skittle " Boston Landing", Blue Dot Sessions – 2018 – Skittle " Pedalrider", Blue Dot Sessions – 2018 – SkittleLearn More:
AltaMed Behavioral Health Services Plascencia Consulting Power California – Organize, Vote, Lead Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California Central American Resource Center Los AngelesMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 therapist's work to bring the lens of radical therapy and community care into her practice. This piece was produced by the podcast Re:Work from the UCLA Labor Center.
Featuring:
Claudia Morales, therapist at Social Justice Healing
Credits:
Making Contact
Episode host and producer: Lucy Kang Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain Music credit: "Documentary" by Coma-Media via PixabayRe:Work Episode "Radical Therapy" Credits:
Hosted and produced by Veena Hampapur and Saba Waheed Sound design and editing by Veena Hampapur Mixing by Aaron DaltonLearn More:
Making Contact homepage: https://focmedia.org Re:Work from the UCLA Labor Center: https://reworkradio.labor.ucla.eduMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 generations living in remote areas, in far away countries, with little access to modern healthcare. We rarely think about the ancient medicinal plants that might exist in our very own cities. On today's episode we look at plant and herb medicines through the lens of Michele Elizabeth Lee the author of Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing.
Featuring:
Michele Elizabeth Lee, Traditional Healing Practitioner, Educator, Visual Artist and the Author of Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing Brandi Mack, Holistic Health Educator, Therapeutic Massage Therapist, Trauma-Informed Youth developer, Powerful Presenter, and Permaculture Designer Estrella Davina, Holistic PractitionerMaking Contact Team:
Executive Director: Jina Chung Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum and Lucy Kang Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain Engineer: Jeff EmtmanMusic Credits:
Blue Dot Session - Bedroll Blue Dot Session - 3rd Chair Lobo Loco - Alright in Louisiana Lobo Loco - Inside Your Body Audiobinger - The Garden StateLearn More:
Working The Roots Instagram Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing Brandi Mack LA Times: Black Herbalist Black Women Herbalists Black Healers NY Times: Some Lessons from Herbalists Mojo Workin' African American Slave Medicine Sticks Stones Roots BonesMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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Almost half of Puerto Rico's doctors have fled the island over the past decade, leading to a lack of specialists and treatment and incredibly long wait times. And this isn't just an inconvenience. People are dying from lack of care. Why is Puerto Rico's health care system collapsing, and why are doctors fleeing the island?
We take a look at its deeply dysfunctional private medical system and why attempts to fix it, and create a universal health care plan on the island, are being hindered by Puerto Rico's status as a US colony. Its massive unpayable debt, held by investors in the US, means that it cannot make its own economic decisions, even when it affects the livelihood of poor Puerto Ricans living there. But there might be a fix, getting rid of Puerto Rico's debt and rethinking its colonial relationship to the US. This episode first aired in October 2024.
Credits:
Making Contact:
Episode Host: Salima Hamirani Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Marketing Manager: Lissa DeonarainMusic Credits:
Daniel Birch – Indigo Strokes Axletree – Goldfinch- Flight to the North Mindseye – Spores Soft and Furious – So WhatLearn More:
Boricuas Unidos en la Diaspora The Nation Magazine Puerto Rico's Unnatural DisasterMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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Federal food programs, like WIC, face big changes coming out of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. Meanwhile, a single moms collective in Ohio holds it down for the single pregnant and parenting people in their community. Motherful's resource pantry serves their 325-strong membership out of a garage three times a week. We talk to members and founders to learn what's it's like to participate, how it all started and where food justice is headed for them now and in their wildest dreams.
Featuring:
Kay Riley- college student and Mom to baby Wisdom, Motherful Member Rugi Ngaide - Ohio supreme court translator, Mom, Motherful member Lisa Woodrow - Co-Founder and Co-Director of Motherful, Mom Heidi Howes - Co-Founder and Co-Director of Motherful, Mom Rebecca Piazza: Senior Advisor for Delivery, Food and Nutrition Service, MomMaking Contact Team
Host: Amy Gastelum Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain Engineer: Jeff EmtmanMusic
HoliznaCC0, Sky ScraperLearn More:
Motherful Changes to WICMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 conversation about how one woman followed her calling to midwifery in a story brought to us by the podcast _Re:Work_ from the UCLA Labor Center.
Featuring:
Kimberly Durdin, licensed midwife and co-founder of Kindred Space LA and the Birthing People Foundation
Credits:
Making Contact
Episode host and producer: Lucy Kang
Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang
Executive Director: Jina Chung
Engineer: Jeff Emtman
Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain
Music credit: "Documentary" by The_Mountain via Pixabay
Re:Work Episode "The Calling" Credits:
Hosted and produced by Veena Hampapur and Saba Waheed
Learn More:
Making Contact homepage: www.focmedia.org
Re:Work from the UCLA Labor Center: https://reworkradio.labor.ucla.edu
Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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In the late 1990s, psychologist Dr. Joseph Gone, a professor and member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribe, returned home during his doctoral training to the Fort Belknap Reservation in north central Montana. There, he set aside Eurocentric concepts of psychology he was learning in school and instead asked tribal members how mental illness is addressed using traditional Indigenous practices. What he learned changed the trajectory of his career. Listen to find out how he helped bring precolonial cultural and spiritual practices into substance use disorder treatment in contemporary Indigenous settings. This show first aired in July 2024.
Featuring:
Dr. Joseph Gone, psychologist and interdisciplinary social scientist at Harvard University and member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre Tribal Nation of Montana
Credits:
Making Contact:
Episode Host: Amy Gastelum Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa DeonarainMusic credits:
Songs: The Horses are Coming, The Gift, Song of Honor Album: The Return of the Buffalo Horses Artists: Darrell Norman and Ramon Kramer https://www.blackfeetculturecamp.com/d-norman/Learn More:
Dr. Joseph Gone American Indian Health and Family Services, Detroit, MIMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 the documentary film _American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs_ we present a close and personal view of Boggs' activism. The film plunges us into Boggs' lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond.
Boggs' constantly evolving strategy—her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her—drives the story forward. Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, Boggs' late husband James and a host of Detroit comrades across three generations help shape this uniquely American story. As she wrestles with a Detroit in ongoing transition, contradictions of violence and non-violence, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the 1967 rebellions, and nonlinear notions of time and history, Boggs emerges with an approach that is radical in its simplicity and clarity: revolution is not an act of aggression or merely a protest. Revolution, Boggs says, is about something deeper within the human experience — the ability to transform oneself to transform the world.
Special thanks to Grace Lee (no relation), producer and director of _American Revolutionary_, and to raptivist Invincible_. _
Featuring:
Grace Lee Boggs Grace Lee, Contributing Producer and FilmmakerCredits:
Host: Anita Johnson Contributing Producer: Grace Lee Executive Director: Jina Chung Digital Media Marketing: Lissa DeonarainMusic:
Bontex, Creeping Blue Dot Sessions, Grand Caravan Invincible + Waajeed, Detroit Summer Audio Banger, the Garden StateLearn More:
American Revolutionary Film Americans Who Tell The Truth Grace Lee Boggs Detroit Activist Dies At 100 Invincible Emergence Media -
Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child development today. She became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition and contributed immensely to programs like Head Start – even though her name is often left out of the history. We'll hear more about her life and work in a story from the podcast _Lost Women of Science_,_ _hosted by Carol Sutton Lewis and Danya AbdelHameid.
Featuring:
Dolores Caffey-Fleming, Program director of Project STRIDE, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Allison Horrocks, Public historian Lauren Bauer, fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings InstitutionCredits:
Making Contact
Episode host and producer: Lucy Kang Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain Music Credit: "Science Documentary" by Aleksey Chistilin (Lexin_Music) via PixabayLost Women of Science: "Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment" Credits
Hosted by Danya AbdelHameid and Carol Sutton Lewis Written and produced by Danya AbdelHameid with senior producer Elah Feder Music composed by Lizzie Younan Episode sound designed and mastered by Alex Sugiura Executive producers: Amy Scharf and Katie Hafner Chief multimedia editor at our publishing partner, Scientific American: Jeff DelviscioListen to the full episode from Lost Women of Science: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/podcast-episodes/flemmie-kittrell-and-the-preschool-experiment
Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young designer creating packaging for a pharmaceutical company when a scientist gave her a tour of the lab. Looking at the long rows of pregnancy tests she thought, well anyone could do that test at home! So she set about designing a prototype for America's first home pregnancy test. While the design of the prototype was simple, convincing the company, the medical community and conservative social leaders that at-home pregnancy testing was safe and necessary was an uphill climb for Crane, who is only now receiving credit for her contributions to the industry. This show first aired in February 2024.
Featuring:
Margaret Crane - Graphic designer and inventor of the first home pregnancy test Wendy Kline - Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine, History Faculty Purdue University Jesse Olszynko-Gryn - Head of the [Laboratory for Oral History and Experimental Media](https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/laboratory-oral-history-and-experimental-media) at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Arthur Kover - Emeritus Professor of Marketing, Fordham University Alexandra Lord - Chair, Division of Medicine and Science at the National Museum of American HistoryMaking Contact Staff:
Host: Amy Gastelum Guest Producer: Anne Noyes Saini Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa DeonorainMusic:
Podington Bear, Rhythm and Strings
Learn More:
National Museum of American History https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1803285 A Woman's Right to Know, Pregnancy Testing in 20th Century Britain - https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544399/a-womans-right-to-know/ Predictor, by Jennifer Blackmer https://newplayexchange.org/plays/348156/predictorMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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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 contributions to public health, despite the racism and sexism she faced. We'll trace the course of her remarkable life and work with in a story brought to us by the podcast Lost Women of Science, hosted by Katie Hafner and producer Dominique Janee.
Featuring:
Dr. Melody McCloud, Physician and author of _Black Women's Wellness_ Dr. Joan Reede, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School Jim Downs, Historian and author of _Sick from Freedom_ Victoria Gall, with Hyde Park Historical Society and Friends of the Hyde Park Branch LibraryMaking Contact Credits
Episode host and producer: Lucy Kang Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain Music Credit: "The Road From Home" by Sergii Pavkin from PixabayLost Women of Science: "Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer" Credits
Producer and host: Dominique Janee Host: Katie Hafner Managing senior producer: Barbara Howard Audio engineer and sound designer: Samia Bouzid Published in partnership with Scientific AmericanListen to the full episode from Lost Women of Science: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/podcast-episodes/dr-rebecca-crumpler-americas-first-black-female-public-health-pioneer
Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Featuring:
Film Participants: James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Dick Cavett, Marlon Brando, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and many more
Credits:
Host: Anita Johnson Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa DeonorainLearn More:
http://www.iamnotyournegrofilm.com/ http://www.magnoliapictures.com/ https://studios.amazon.com/ James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) Interview with James Baldwin on Sexuality - Richard GoldsteinMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party.
On December 4th, 1969, exactly 50 years ago, Black Panthers Fred Hampton, age 21, and Mark Clark, age 22, were shot to death by Chicago police.
In an infamous moment in Chicago's history and politics, over a dozen policemen burst into Hampton's apartment while its occupants were sleeping, killing Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark, and brutalizing the other occupants.
As Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, Hampton built a solid reputation as a community organizer and brilliant speaker. The FBI, threatened by the activities of the BPP and its dynamic youth leaders, set on a course to neutralize the organization and anyone they deemed a threat to the agenda of white supremacy.
"You can jail the revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution…You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can't murder freedom fighting." – Fred Hampton.
Featuring:
Fred Hampton Bobby Rush Rennie Davis Edward HanrahanCredits:
Special thanks to Facets DVD and Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk Host: Anita Johnson Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa DeonorainMusic:
"Grand Caravan", Blue Dot Sessions elling Easements Viola Trio Long", Barbara Bernstein "Long Cory", CoryLearn More:
The Murder of Fred Hampton A Facets Cine-Notes Booklet The Assassination of Fred Hampton Freedom Archives: Fred Hampton Audio Samples Freedom Archives: Honoring Fred Hampton on the 50th Anniversary of his MurderMaking Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
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