rape test kits

(Airs 08/19/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Emily Miles, Executive Director for The Alliance Against Sexual Violence, about the expansion of the organization’s services in light of the millions of dollars in recent state budget cuts to rape crisis centers.

(Airs 08/19/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Emily Miles, Executive Director for The Alliance Against Sexual Violence, about the expansion of the organization’s services in light of the millions of dollars in recent state budget cuts to rape crisis centers.

On this week's 51%, we speak with journalist and author Pagan Kennedy about her new book The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story, tracking the life and work of Martha “Marty” Goddard, who invented the country’s first extensive rape kit system in the 1970s.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and state officials appeared at Albany Medical Center Monday to announce the opening of a new evidence storage facility.

Award-winning writer and public health executive Michelle Bowdler's new memoir, "Is Rape a Crime?," indicts how sexual violence has been addressed for…