| |
Series |
# |
Title |
Order |
 |
Humankind |
126, 127 |
Answering The Need
With the tightening economy, increased middle class anxiety, home foreclosures and lengthening lines at soup kitchens throughout the United States, more and more and more Americans will be relying on the good will of their neighbors. This documentary examines why people decide to offer their time and money to answer the need. [more]
 Hear a free excerpt
|
 |
 |
Humankind |
71 |
Barbara Ehrenreich
The plight of Americans who still live in poverty, despite working full-time (perhaps even more than one job), is examined by award-winning author Barbara Ehrenreich. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
78 |
Bill Siemering: Radio Bridges
We hear excerpts of radio in some developing countries, where local broadcasting gives people a voice -- and a taste of democracy -- that can help to heal long-standing conflicts. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
121 |
Bo Lozoff
Bo Lozoff, A teacher and singer who has visited more than eleven-hundred U-S prisons – trying to uplift inmates many of whom he says don't belong there,believes that even while incaracerated, a person can become free. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
191 |
Bob Massie’s Survival Story
The remarkable survival story of Bob Massie, an Episcopal minister who somehow walked through one life-threatening illness after another, and whose many challenges deepened his appreciation for life – and for the suffering of others. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
179 |
Bolder Giving
Some people give no charity at all. But of Americans who do, the average family donation is 2-3% per year. This program examines how people arrive at the amount of their charitable contributions, where the money is contributed to, and what holds donors back from giving more, especially if they could afford to without hardship. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
10 |
Building Community with Millard Fuller
The remarkable international effort to build "homes and hope" by marshalling the energies of young people, church communities and others, is described by Habitat for Humanity founder Millard Fuller. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
14 |
Cathrine Sneed: The Garden Project
Step inside the garden of Cathrine Sneed, a prison social worker, who has found that when inmates leave their cells and connect with nature their rate of recidivism drops. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
169 |
Chaplains
Facing a personal crisis, hospital patients and their loved ones often receive needed emotional support from a quiet army of chaplains, who are skilled at empathetic listening to people gripped by difficult and confusing emotions. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
87,88 |
Children Left Behind
The moving stories of two young adults who have incarcerated parents and who endured unpleasant visits to prison as well as the heavy emotional baggage of having a loved one taken from them at a young age. (Part 1) [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
27 |
Children's Advocate Jonathan Kozol
A visit with educator and National Book Award-winner Jonathan Kozol who continues his decades-long crusade on behalf of children he's met in inner city schools. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
178 |
Compassionate Friends
Aiming to "transform the pain of grief into the elixir of hope", a group called The Compassionate Friends, with more than 600 U.S. chapters, brings together parents who've suffered the loss of a child, to help them sort through complicated emotions among kindred spirits. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
187 |
Dignity with Donna Hicks
Donna Hicks, author of Dignity, recounts her experiences as an international conflict mediator that led her to an understanding of how an assault on the dignity of a person or a group must be healed, before strife can stop. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
15 |
Freeing Modern-Day Slaves
A conscience-stricken management consultant left the world of business and decided to volunteer his full-time efforts in the quest to free modern-day slaves held in shocking conditions. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
51 |
Freeing the Innocent with Rob Warden
Emboldened by a U.S. Justice Dept. estimate that ten percent of prisoners serving time are actually innocent, journalist Rob Warden describes his Chicago-based efforts to free inmates who are wrongly convicted. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
52 |
Haley House
After nearly forty years of sheltering, serving and training the homeless in Boston, Kathy McKenna reflects on the line between helping people in need and becoming an "enabler" of people who don't want to improve. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
84 |
Harlem Renaissance
Geoffrey Canada designated a crime-ridden 24-block area of New York as the Harlem Children's Zone and works tirelessly to provide a healthier community for kids who are otherwise vulnerable to developmental and social ills. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
7 |
Hospitality
The stress of having a seriously-ill loved one being treated in a hospital in a strange city is lessened by a compassionate army of volunteers in Boston who open their homes to provide lodging and a sympathetic ear. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
38 |
JoBeth Walt
A woman who was severely burned in an accident reveals her personal journey of healing and self-acceptance and describes what she's learned from working with young people who are also coping with burns. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
138 |
Journey of the Deaf-Blind
We hear the story of Mary Gillespie, a woman born with normal hearing and vision, but who developed several illnesses starting at age ten. Gradually, she became deaf-blind. Now living in Los Angeles, Mary is a regular volunteer at the Braille Institute, where we recorded this remarkable episode of Humankind. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
70 |
Katie Davis
Journalist, mentor, gardener, camp counselor and community activist Katie Davis has undertaken a one-woman campaign to save kids in her inner city neighborhood of Washington, DC. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
39 |
Playwrights Becoming Free
Chicago dramatist Meade Palidofsky uses theater as a therapeutic tool in her work with juvenile offenders who write and perform plays while incarcerated -- and in the process see their lives through a new lens. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
34 |
Reuben Martinez, The Literary Barber
Announced as a winner of the prestigious MacArthur "genius" awards, colorful Reuben Martinez launched a literacy campaign from his small barber shop outside Los Angeles. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
20 |
Reverend Ray Hammond
former emergency room physician, Ray Hammond, tells why he switched professions and became a parish pastor to help heal the lives of troubled youths. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
150 |
Room to Read
After John Wood trekked through Nepal and saw under-educated children, he quit his job as a Microsoft executive and founded Room to Read, a nonprofit that has now established more than 9,000 libraries aimed at spreading literacy in developing nations worldwide. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
81 |
Second Chances
This documentary explores the transition of a young mother from addiction treatment to a clean and sober life, with the help of a family mentoring program known as "shared family care." [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Part of Kindred Spirits |
KS3-2b |
Special Children
Albert T. Murphy comments compassionately on lessons gained from his life's work with special needs children and helping their parents cope. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
122 |
The Science of Gratitude
New research suggests that people who actively cultivate gratitude in their lives become both more content and physically healthier, but Oakland, California writer Catherine Price wanted to find out for herself. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
110 |
Waking Up In Jail
Nearly half of criminals released from prison are arrested again within three years. Through that revolving door, they return to a correctional system that is often overcrowded and ridden with violence. Robin Casarjian, a counselor working in prisons, helps to transform houses of correction into houses of healing. She encourages inmates to identify with their highest self. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
 |
Humankind |
9 |
Waste and Want
A community service organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts rescues food that would be routinely discarded by grocers, produce companies and others and delivers it to those in need including pantries and elderly meal sites. [more]
Hear a free excerpt
|
|
