Podcasts of the Week Ending December 15


99% Invisible :: The Accidental Room

The absolutely true story of a community of artists secretly building a condominium in a vacant space within a shopping mall.

WBUR :: Hundreds Buried In Nameless Graves In Waltham ID’d By Local Historian And High-Schoolers

High school students work to identify the graves of people who had been kept in institutions for people with mental and physical disabilities from the 1940s to 1970s.  A horrifying glimpse into the recent history of the mistreatment of people with disabilities.

WBUR :: What A Boston Student’s Deportation Reveals About School Police and Gang Intelligence

Of course, injustice is still with us today, as this story of school policing and discrimination against immigrants demonstrates.