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Obscured

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Obscured tells stories that unfold largely out of the public eye. Journalists Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas cover critical issues that don’t get much attention in the media, reveal how these issues are complex and overshadowed and aim to cultivate understanding and explore potential solutions. Obscured is produced by Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder. The podcast features: • Original limited series that dive deep into an obscured issue • Conversational interview episodes with pol ...
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We’re excited to share Woke AF Daily on our feed with Danielle Moodie powered by DCP Entertainment. The podcast explores the current political climate while waking people up to their power. As part of our From Words to Weapons series rollout, we were guests on Woke AF Daily. Special thanks to Woke AF Daily for having us on the show to talk about Fr…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 14 is the final episode in the series. It features a wrap-up conversation between Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas. They discuss the series and reporting developments since the start of the series. Our deepest thanks to everyone who’s been listening! And if you have a moment, we'd greatly appreciate you sharing Obsc…
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We’re excited to share Archival Ecologies with you! It’s an original audio series created and hosted by Jayme Collins, who’s a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University’s High Meadows Environmental Institute. Archival Ecologies is produced by Blue Lab — an environmental media and storytelling group at Princeton led by Professor Allison Carruth. …
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From Words to Weapons Episode 13 features a panel discussion about supporting survivors of violence. The conversation focuses on how policy takes shape to support survivors of violence, how the definition of crime versus violence can affect whether someone qualifies for support, and the impact of the Victims of Crime Act or VOCA. The discussion als…
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We’re excited to share On Being Biracial with you! On Being Biracial is about biracial experiences and identities in the United States and features more than thirty guests. The show is co-hosted by Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley, who are biracial journalists based in Philadelphia. Obscured’s Emily Previti worked with Daralyse and Malcolm on thi…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 12 features a panel discussion about compensation and care for people who’ve been wrongfully convicted. Our series covered this topic in the third episode about Chester Hollman III and the politics of wrongful conviction. If you haven’t heard it, we recommend listening to that episode as well. Obscured partnered with t…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 11 features Part 2 of a panel discussion about harm reduction in the context of interactions with law enforcement and solutions that could better promote community well-being and help mitigate mistrust. Obscured partnered with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the Pennsylvania Action Coalition to hold the disc…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 10 features Part 1 of a panel discussion about harm reduction in the context of interactions with law enforcement and solutions that could better promote community well-being and help mitigate mistrust. Obscured partnered with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the Pennsylvania Action Coalition to hold the disc…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 9 focuses on the parole system and mass incarceration in the United States. Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas talk with Chicago-based journalist Ben Austen. He’s written a new book, Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change. Ben also is the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American …
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We’re excited to share How We Survive with you! How We Survive is a podcast from Marketplace that explores solutions to the climate crisis. This season, host Amy Scott investigates how people are adapting to the water crisis in the American West. The Colorado River feeds us and powers our lives by irrigating millions of acres of farmland, supportin…
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We’re excited to share Bad Watchdog with you! It’s produced by the Project on Government Oversight or POGO. Season 1 of Bad Watchdog tells the story of what happens when the person tasked with investigating one of the nation’s powerful agencies decides to look the other way. In episode 1, host Maren Machles takes us back to January 6, 2021, to the …
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From Words to Weapons Episode 8 delves into health care for returning citizens with Dr. Divya Venkat about how law enforcement trauma shows up in her patients and implementing a harm reduction care model. Divya is a physician and works for the Allegheny Health Network’s Center for Inclusion Health. Divya has treated both incarcerated and formerly i…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 7 focuses on Maija Anderson’s story and her push to develop a treatment protocol for people after a law enforcement encounter. Maija has been working on developing a protocol for more than 20 years, with mixed success and support. Through Maija’s story and talking to other researchers and reformers for this episode, Em…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 6 focuses on how county jails treat people with mental health conditions. Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas talk with Pennsylvania-based journalist Brett Sholtis, who investigated this issue in Pennsylvania, about what that looks like and obstacles he’s faced during his reporting. Brett investigated interactions betw…
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On Episode 5 of the From Words to Weapons series, Hector Rivera shares his experiences of surviving police brutality and seeking accountability. His experiences point to the lack of an effective, uniform structure for police accountability in the United States. Instead, solutions – and outcomes – vary from city to city. And experts on law enforceme…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 4 delves into community trauma interventions with Arturo Zinny. The conversation explores what takeaways there might be for people working to address law enforcement trauma and navigating relationships among institutions and communities with lived experience. There’s a small network of researchers and policy makers, ar…
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From Words to Weapons Episode 3 focuses on Chester Hollman III, who spent nearly three decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, and the broader political fight over state-administered compensation for people who've been wrongfully convicted. A few years ago, Chester was the subject of a Netflix documentary; this episode picks up where that …
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From Words to Weapons Episode 2 focuses on barriers to law enforcement accountability with Joanna Schwartz. Law enforcement accountability in the United States is complex and challenging, especially when it comes to trying to sue the police. On this episode, Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas turn to UCLA Law Professor Joanna Schwartz, a leading e…
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In Episode 1 of the From Words to Weapons series, we begin with Jimmy Warren's story. It's the first time he's talking publicly about his gun case that made national headlines in 2016 when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturned his conviction, ruling that police hadn't had reasonable suspicion to stop him in the first place. That decis…
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Fatal law enforcement encounters have understandably – and deservedly – captured our attention. But the tens of thousands of Americans who survive trauma inflicted by law enforcement every year are often overlooked. They go without the kind of support our systems offer to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and other forms of trauma. If …
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Over the last several years, book bans across the United States have increased. But there’s been less attention paid to restrictions on the right to read within prisons and jails and perhaps even more so than before. As part of Banned Books Week, we're building on our previous reporting and bringing you the latest developments on the issue. If you …
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On this introductory episode, meet Emily and Stephanie. They tell the story of how their journalism careers crisscrossed several times before their collaboration and what led them to launching this new podcast for underreported, complex issues missed by the daily news cycle. To stay up-to-date, make sure to subscribe to Obscured and Kouvenda Media’…
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Obscured tells stories that unfold largely out of the public eye. Journalists Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas cover critical issues that don’t get much attention in the media, reveal how these issues are complex and overshadowed and aim to cultivate understanding and explore potential solutions. Obscured is produced by Kouvenda Media and mixed …
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Obscured tells stories that unfold largely out of the public eye. Journalists Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas cover critical issues that don’t get much attention in the media, reveal how these issues are complex and overshadowed and aim to cultivate understanding and explore potential solutions. Obscured is produced by Kouvenda Media and mixed …
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Jen is white and grew up in Philadelphia, while Ermias is black and Eritrean. They met in Eritrea in 1995 when Jen was there as a Peace Corps volunteer. They had a long distance relationship for a while and just when Ermias was on the verge of leaving to come to the US, war broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea. They eventually got married shortly…
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Jean and Mas have been together since 1972 and married since 1992. Jean is white and was raised in Rochester, New York. Mas is Japanese-American and he was born in an internment camp during World War II and grew up in Seabrook, New Jersey. Both longtime civil right activists, Jean and Mas met while they were both working for the American Friends Se…
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Ken is Irish and Mee is Korean American. They met when Ken flew from Ireland to the United States for a friend's wedding, and the two quickly hit it off and began a trans-Atlantic relationship. Mee was living in New York at the time, and after watching the Twin Towers fall on a TV screen, Ken realized he didn't want to be thousands of miles away an…
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Joshu and Marleny met online in 2011. After a potentially disastrous first date, they hit it off and eventually got married in 2014. They now live in Philadelphia's Fishtown neighborhood. Joshu is white and Marleny is black and was born in the Dominican Republic. She grew up speaking Spanish the fact that Joshu is a fluent speaker helped him quickl…
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David and Belinda were part of each other's worlds before they even met. David would ride his bike to and from work in Pleasantville, NJ and Belinda would occasionally wave to him, a passing stranger, as she drove by. It so happened that they worked for the same company and later met at a training event at work. Although Belinda was initially reluc…
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Kevin and Lisa have been married since 2009. They live in New Jersey, where they're raising two young daughters. Lisa is white, and grew up in Northeast Pennsylvania. Kevin is Korean and was raised in Western Pennsylvania by his adopted parents, who are white. In this episode of the Loving Project, they talk about their multiracial family, some of …
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Len and Fernando met and started dating in 1981 but they didn't get married until 2014, over 3 decades later. They literally fought for the right to marry; they were among several LGBT couples who were plaintiffs in the lawsuit that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, a year before the US Supreme Court decision on mar…
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Jen and Shawn met in 2004 under sad circumstances when they lost a mutual friend. Eleven years later, they got married and now live in Lansdowne, PA with their 2-year-old son. Shawn is African American, and grew up in South Philadelphia while Jen is white, and spent her early years in Central Pennsylvania before her family moved to suburban Philade…
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Kate and Courtney met while they were both students at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Courtney is black, and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Kate is white, and grew up in Buffalo, New York. They've lived in Baltimore and Washington DC, and now make their home together in Philadelphia's Fishtown neighborhood. They've been together since 1999, and…
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Christine and Steve met at a party in Phialdelphia in the 1960s, and they've been together ever since. Christine is black, and grew up in Glassboro, New Jersey. Steve is white and was raised in Philadelphia. In this episode of the Loving Project, they describe what it was like to be an interracial couple in the 1960s and 1970s, deciding to move to …
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Lesley and Cord met while Lesley was working at Duke University and Cord was a graduate student at the school. In their very first conversation, Lesley impressed Cord with her critique of his favorite medieval author, St. Augustine, even though they had very different impressions of him. Despite their differences, the two became friends, and eventu…
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Eric and David married nearly 5 decades after the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage, but just a year after another Court ruling that made same-sex marriages like theirs legal across the United States. David is white, and grew up in a small town in Oregon, before moving to Portland for college and then Princeton, New Jersey,…
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Mike and Kim met while working in a research lab at the University of Pennsylvania. At the time, Mike was a senior, while Kim had recently finished her PhD and was working as a postdoctoral researcher while raising her 10-year-old son. Mike is the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who grew up in an agricultural area of Maryland, while Kim hails from Sou…
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On June 12th, 1967, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Loving v. Virginia. That decision rendered all state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional and made it legal for individuals of different races to marry all across the USA. Instead of telling one couple's story, in this Loving Day special, we hear from eight different couples …
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Florence and Ed met in the 1960's in Nashville while they were in college - Ed at Vanderbilt and Florence at Fisk University. They began dating after getting to know each other as co-facilitators for the Upward Bound program and got married in 1968, just over a year after the Loving v. Virginia decision. When they got engaged, they had no idea that…
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Michelle and Melissa met in college and were together for 12 years before getting married in 2017. Although they are both Philadelphia natives, they hail from very different parts of the city. Melissa, who is white, grew up in Bridesburg, a neighborhood with a reputation for racism, while Michelle, who is Black, hails from Mount Airy, an area well …
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Lori and Manuel have been married since 1999. Manuel is white and grew up in Spain. Lori is black and grew up in Wisconsin. They met at university in Spain, where Lori was studying abroad; eventually Manuel joined her in the United States where they lived first in New York and then in Philadelphia. In this episode of the Loving Project podcast, Lor…
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The Loving Project commemorates the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia by featuring modern stories of interracial marriage. Aarati and Jonathan got married in 2006. Jonathan is White and Jewish and Aarati is Indian-American. They met in Chicago, where Aarati was pursuing her PhD and Jonathan was working as a journalist. They later moved to Wash…
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Anastasia and Symeon met online while they were working at that same university. They married in 2011 and live in Philadelphia with their two young sons. Symeon grew up in rural New York state, while Anastasia grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In the episode, they discuss the things they have in common, such as a love of travel, close relationships w…
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Donna and Craig have been married since 1988. Craig is White and grew up in Queens, New York. Donna is Black and was born in the United States, but lived in Belgium for about 10 years before returning to New York, where she and Craig first met. The couple lived in New Jersey for a while before settling down in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where the…
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Beth and Helaina are an interracial couple living in Philadelphia’s Mount Airy neighborhood. They got married in a wedding ceremony in Philadelphia in 2007, before gay marriage became legal nationwide. They later had a legal ceremony in California while Helaina was carrying their first child. The couple now has four children, all biracial. You can …
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Shaina is a white Jewish woman from Texas. Brahim is a black, Muslim, Berber Arab from Morocco. They met while Shaina was volunteering for an organization Brahim started in a small village in Morocco, and after Shaina returned to the United States, Brahim decided to start the immigration process so they could be together. Now they live in West Phil…
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Dave and Courtney have been married since 2010, and they're raising an 18 month old boy in West Philadelphia. Courtney is African American, while Dave is white, and they're both navigating what it means to raise a biracial child in the era of Black Lives Matter. You can get the latest updates about the podcast by following The Loving Project on Fac…
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Arun and Carrie got married in 2001; Arun is Indian and Carrie is white. Both grew up in Northeast Ohio, and they now live in Philadelphia with their two children. Arun grew up in a close-knit Indian community where arranged marriages were the norm; theirs was the first interracial marriage to be openly accepted in that community. The couple talks …
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Olivia and John got married in 2015 and live in Philadelphia's Mount Airy neighborhood. John is white, and Olivia is Filipino-American. Both of their families have been welcoming of their relationship, but as they think about starting their own family, they do think about the challenges their biracial child may face. You can also get the latest upd…
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