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Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 5, 1970, the day an Air Force building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a young man accused of the crime: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious federal time, Howard went on the run and became one of the longest-running fugitives in U.S. history. As an adult, Nina picked up the trail. What ever happened to Howard Mechanic? This eight-part series is the tangled story of her search for answers. Hundreds of Freedom of Information requests. Hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. FBI surveillance and confidential informants. Cold War spies, ...

A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities. Forty years in, the tough-on-crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance criminalize entire blocks, a climate of fear and suspicion pervades daily life, not only for young men entangled in the legal system but for their family members and working neighbors.

The Goethe-Institut Mailand organizes the participation of the Federal Republic of Germany at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition “Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries.” The German Pavilion is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, convened by Red Forest. From the 15th of July to the 1st of December, nine radiograms will go on air in the German pavilion, on Radio Raheem Milan and on reboot.fm Berlin. Created by international experts, “Nomadic Cosmologies and Fugitive Power – The Red Forest Radiograms” will build the program of the pavilion. Nine ...