The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon
This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting...
Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who...
This week we take a look at Canada and its history of Black enslavement. Canada, our northern neighbor, is rarely...
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the...
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps
"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of...
President Biden and America's Expectation
Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from...
This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and...
70 Million: How the Asylum ProcessBecame Another Carceral Matrix
The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right. They're...
2020 was a tumultuous year rocked by two twin plagues: police violence which led to the George Floyd protests and...
The Pandemic, Loss and Racial Inequity
According to the CDC, Blacks and Latinos are 3 times as likely to die from COVID as their white counterparts. This...
The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore)
On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource –...
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring...
On the Brink: Homelessness before and during COVID-19 (Encore)
Most of us have a home to shelter in place during COVID -19. But what about the homeless? We take a look at life on...
Language Is Life, Land Is Sacred (Encore)
Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellows Vincent Medina and Isabella Zizi share deep and personal stories on...
#SayHerName: Black Women, Police Violence, and Abolition
Why is that the deaths of Black women at the hands of police don’t seem to generate as much outrage as the...
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the...
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
Voting in one of the most momentous presidential elections in the nation’s history is over. The morning after...
Fighting for the Ballot: Race and Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election
Voter suppression and its target’s aren’t new phenomena. People of color and the poor have always been...
Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism (Encore)
Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health....
On this episode, we'll explore felon disenfranchisement and the battle to restore the voting rights of people on...
