Podcast Episodes

Listen Now: We Came to the Forest

Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility planned for Atlanta. She decides to join the activists trying to stop construction. When Vienna arri…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Listen Now: Something Was Wrong

Something Was Wrong is an award-winning docuseries about survivors discovery, trauma, and recovery from crime and abuse.

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Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Listen Now - Code Switch: What happens when public housing goes private?

The New York City Housing Authority is the biggest public housing program in the country. But with limited funding to address billions of dollars of outstanding repairs, NYCHA is turning to a controv…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Listen Now - Scene on Radio: Danger

Sharing an episode from Scene on Radio's acclaimed Season 2 series, Seeing White, by John Biewen and featuring Empire City host and creator, Chenjerai Kumanyika. For centuries, white supremacist U.S.…

Published on 11 months ago

Bonus Episode: The Fall of Eric Adams

New York’s Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted and charged by the federal government with corruption, wire fraud, bribery and more. Could we have predicted what kind of mayor Adams would become based …

Published on 1 year ago

Black History, For Real: NYPD's Secret Story | For Real, For Real

Episode 9

"Woop! Woop! That’s the sound of da police! Conscious and Frankie welcome Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika – host of Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD. Dr. Kumanyika’s podcast is a deeply perso…

Published on 1 year ago

Stay Dangerous

Episode 8

The NYPD loves to show off its diversity, but it often hides how hard and long it fought that diversity. Chenjerai takes us back in time to the real story of how the NYPD got its first Black cop – an…

Published on 1 year ago

The American Problem

Episode 7

New York’s police start to realize that beating up and arresting immigrants is making them distrustful of cops. In response, a police chief has an idea, borne out of his time colonizing the Philippin…

Published on 1 year ago

The Rotten Orchard

Episode 6

It’s like clockwork: every 20 years or so, a corruption scandal forces the NYPD into the hot seat. But how did this cycle begin? To find out, we go back over a century ago to the very first investiga…

Published on 1 year ago

The Moral Crusade

Episode 5

Officers in early New York didn’t just police the city’s vice economy; they profited from it. But when America’s first professional vice fighter Anthony Comstock strong-arms the NYPD into enforcing h…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago