On the Ground with Report for America
This season of the GroundTruth Podcast is a playlist of stories from across America. Amid a pandemic and nationwide demands for criminal justice and police reform, our Report for America corps members delve into the daily issues affecting American lives. Mics in hand, these reporters bring us into communities largely unheard and unseen by the national media to share their stories. This coast-to-coast audio journey begins with one reporter’s drive from Connecticut to California, a road trip that captures the varied chorus of American life in the summer of 2020.
About ‘On the Ground’ dispatches
The podcast, a continuation of our “On the Ground” dispatches, shadows our Report for America corps members as they report from communities across America. These stories are gritty snap-shots of what’s happening beyond our own fields of vision, lending us insight into people and places across America that we have yet to experience. Our embedded reporters serve as local guides to the issues, changes and voices of local communities from Nashville to Detroit and Twin Falls to Dallas. These dispatches have been featured by USA TODAY and PBS’ American Experience.
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There’s a shortage of sexual assault exam providers in rural America. Can it call on midwives?
The failed Akron Innerbelt drove decades of racial inequity. Can the damage be repaired?
How to save the tallgrass prairie, acre by acre
On the Ground with American Experience
Episode 9: On the Ground in Northern Kentucky
Episode 8: Finding Robert Johnson in the Mississippi Delta
Episode 6: The Barbers on Chicago’s South Side
Episode 5: Inside Mississippi’s Prison System
Rain, shine or COVID-19, this Wyoming fair must go on
Episode 4: The Bird Singers of the Southwest
Episode 3: ‘Deadly Force’ in Nashville, TN
Episode 2: Almost Independence Day in Jackson, MS
The action, and promise, behind Native American representation in the US
A memorial against injustice, a call for change
Episode 1: Pandemic and Protest (Parts 1 & 2)
A reporter’s journey into a changing nation
Unlocking the vote of Connecticut’s formerly incarcerated
Through despair and unity on streets of Nashville, an American reckoning
Essential workers go hungry as food rots in America’s agricultural heart
