The America Amplified: Life, Community, and COVID-19 live talk show – hosted by stations across the country — will explore local community perspectives and solutions to some of the most important issues raised by the coronavirus pandemic.

The discussion will be informed by active, ongoing engagement with local communities, featuring voices from the communities we cover.

You can listen to it live Saturdays through May 30 from 3-5 p.m. ET at participating stations, as a rebroadcast later in the weekend, or stream it from wherever you listen to podcasts. The show is engineered from KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, and is hosted by two different stations each week.

Show hosts and topics

• April 25: WABE’s Rose Scott and KQED’s Mina Kim

  • Topics: The K-12 education gap exposed by remote learning and the difficult choices facing essential workers

• May 2: KCUR’s Brian Ellison and New England Public Radio’s John Dankosky

  • Topics: The reopening of communities across America and how we care for the elderly

• May 9: Iowa Public Radio’s Charity Nebbe and Boise State Public Radio’s Gemma Gaudette

  • Topics: What’s happening to our food supply chain and how to manage our mental health through the crisis

• May 16: WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane and KQED’s Mina Kim

  • Topics: The tense divide over wearing face masks and the realities of being unemployed during a pandemic.

• May 23: WABE’s Rose Scott and New England Public Radio’s John Dankosky

  • Topics: The pandemic’s unequal toll on communities of color and what we will be missing this summer

• May 30:  KCUR’s Brian Ellison and WHYY’s Maiken Scott

  • Topics: Will our relationship with health care providers change and how we are finding community

Here’s how you can participate

1. Share your reactions, personal experiences or concerns with us through social media: Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. 

2. Leave us an email or voice memo message at contact@AmericaAmplified.org.

3. Call in during the live show each Saturday at 1-800-444-8652.

Episode details: For more about each episode, click here or listen from the playlist below.

Press release: For more about the show, click here.

Logos: For show logos, click here.

Stations carrying the show

NORTHEAST

WFCR (Amherst, Massachusetts)

WXXI (Rochester, New York)

MID-ATLANTIC

WAMU 88.5 (Washington, D.C.)

WHYY (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

WITF (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)

90.5 WESA (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

SOUTH

WUNC (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

WABE (Atlanta, Georgia)

WFPK (Louisville, Kentucky)

WKMS (Murray, Kentucky)

FLORIDA

WMFE (Orlando, Florida)

MIDWEST AND TEXAS

Iowa Public Radio (Des Moines, Iowa)

KCUR (Kansas City, Missouri)

St. Louis Public Radio, KWMU (St. Louis, Missouri)

WOUB (Athens, Ohio)

MPR, Minnesota Public Radio (Collegeville, Minnesota)

KERA (Dallas, Texas)

WEST

Boise State Public Radio, KBSU (Boise, Idaho)

KUNC (Greeley, Colorado)

KUNR (Reno, Nevada)

KUAZ (Tucson, Arizona)

CALIFORNIA

KQED (San Francisco, California)

CapRadio, KXJZ (Sacramento, California)

ALASKA

KTOO (Juneau, Alaska)

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