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Release Day [Rebroadcast] + Announcement

by Nancy Mullane

  • September 26, 2018

It’s official, and it’s one more amazing step into the future at Life of the Law: we have a new Executive Director. Six years after Nancy Mullane, Tom Hilbink and Shannon Heffernan launched the first…

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In-Studio: Police, Race and Fatal Force

by Life of the Law

  • April 16, 2018

Mothers, brothers, sons and daughters in cities across the country are suffering from the loss of a loved one to police use of fatal force. In 2017 The Washington Post reports police officers in the…

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Death by Police: A Mother’s (audio) Diary

by Zoe Sullivan

  • April 4, 2018

Police throughout the US shoot and kill unarmed people, in Sacramento, Detroit, New Orleans and Madison. One mother of a biracial teen who was shot and killed by a local police officer, kept an audio diary following her son’s death.

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LIVE LAW SF: Initial Public Offering

by Life of the Law

  • March 21, 2018

This week Life of the Law presents LIVE LAW… stories from people living with the rapid fire shifts that come with tech in the Bay Area, folks who are pushing back against the gentrification and…

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Inside San Quentin: Moonlight

by Shadeed Wallace-Stepter

  • March 6, 2018

“For any child that has been struggling with their sexuality, who has seen that movie, that could have been a life saving moment for them.” – Mike Adams, Inside San Quentin, Moonlight What would men…

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Uganda – Part 4: IN-STUDIO

by Nancy Mullane

  • February 22, 2018

“The role of history is critically important, to bring in a more contemporary conversation about what’s going on now. When we disconnect what’s happening in the present moment from historical context, it allows people to…

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Uganda – Part 3: JUSTICE

by Gladys Oroma

  • February 8, 2018

If I did not reveal that I was formerly abducted, nobody would know. If I did not tell that these children were born from captivity, nobody would know  — Beatrice Ocwee   If I did…

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Episode 128: Uganda Part Three JUSTICE – Transcript

by Gladys Oroma

  • February 6, 2018

HOST: Today, we present part three of our series Uganda, about the thousands of children who had been abducted and held captive by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Throughout the series, we follow the…

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Uganda – Part 2: ESCAPE

by Gladys Oroma

  • January 24, 2018

“I escaped  because of my friend. The three of us started planning while we were in south Sudan.” — Samuel Akena   “We had mothers whose children were crying.  Sometimes government troops and helicopter gunship…

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Episode 127: Uganda Part 2 ESCAPE – Transcript

by Gladys Oroma

  • January 23, 2018

HOST: This is Life of the Law. I’m Nancy Mullane, Executive Producer, and as you know from our last episode, part one of our series on Uganda, we are leaving our comfort zone of the…

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