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1: Stupid Motions
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and helped a lot of people win their freedom. While in the...
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2: Demonstration
Tony Tyler (pictured) tells the story of his involvement in a 2012 NATO protest in Chicago: “It was the summer. And it was hot.”
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3: Opinel No. 5
If you like Tim McGraw, you probably know Jason White’s music — he’s a songwriter and singer in Nashville with a pretty impressive track record. What you wouldn’t know about Jason is that he was...
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4: Soundtrack to History
“She called us on the phone and said, ‘You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'” Today’s story is from Sandi Patton-Imani. One night in 2002, Sandi and her wife, Melanie, went to their local YMCA...
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5: One Confederate Flag
This week’s story is from Patrice Gaines, a veteran journalist and writer — she spent 16 years at the Washington Post. But in the summer of 1970, Patrice Gaines was in jail in North Carolina. Her...
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6: Just Lie
Joanne Solomon was an aerialist and actor when she flew to Argentina to visit her boyfriend and sublet her New York apartment for the first time in 20 years of living there. While she was gone for the...
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7: Skatepark
Skylar Fein is an artist these days. He lives in New Orleans. As a kid, he was a big skateboarder. And recently Skylar found himself back in the skatepark. But this time, he was there to pull off a...
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8: Three Strikes
Clemmie Greenlee works at Eden House in Uptown New Orleans, the first shelter for sex-trafficking victims in Louisiana. The center opened in October 2012. You can read more about Clemmie here.
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9: Family Watch
Steve Zimmer lives in New York, but he didn’t always live in a big city. When he was a kid, Steve and his family moved from one small town to another, and you know how that is … you’re the new kid on...
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10: Prison Break Out
Andrea James was an advocate for prison reform. But one day she found that the roles had been reversed, when she herself wound up behind bars. James is the founder and Executive Director of Families...
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11: Love Persists
When David Cowan found himself serving time behind bars, he wasn’t looking for love. He was just trying to survive. But when his hand touched someone else’s, he realized love might be looking for him.
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12: The Narcoleptic Lawyer
Yannick Morgan is a lawyer and a graduate of Yale Law School. But before that, he was a sleeper. A great sleeper. Ever know someone to fall asleep at a swim meet … that they’re in?
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13: Nun on Death Row
Sister Alison McCrary is the Community-Police Mediation Program Coordinator for the New Orleans Office of the Independent Police Monitor, a social justice attorney, a Spiritual Advisor on death row,...
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