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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited pay discrimination against women and minorities was passed August 1964. Some thought it was a joke -- looks...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
March 14 is date this year when U.S. working women finally reach the amount men earned by the end of last year. And that’s only when all women are...
- Added: Mar 04, 2023
- Length: 03:01
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 05:30
Interview by Gary Kanter: Hillary revisits the 20-year anniversary of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, sometimes referred to as ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” with David Jepsen, educator, historian, a...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 01, 2019
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We continue our thematic overview of the ocean edge this week with a conversation centered around coastal and offshore zones and the politics that ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2019
- Length: 05:26
Bluegrass is American. Bluegrass and America are obviously connected. But there are few songs about the connections. The strongest connections lie ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 07:07
The so-called “War on Christmas” is in full swing. Militant Christians say the well-known evergreen is a Christian symbol for a Christian holiday, ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2015
- Length: 02:30
I speak to Kat Norris Indigenous activist and founder of the Indigenous Action Movement about her experiences in residential school, how she has tu...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 27:42
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: FBI 9/11 Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley: Post-Charlie Hebdo Massacre Rush to...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Feels as good as when we first heard the stuff, from forward to swing to '70s fusion & overproduced blues from the '80s. Perfect for radio, fantas...
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 01:59:57
- Purchases: 4
When the U.S. space program was launched, women were tested for astronaut duty -- and passed.
Bought by Radio Catskill, KUOW, and Radio Newark
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
On March 8 we celebrate International Women’s Day. This year we honor two female members of the Resistance during World War II, who were imprisone...
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 02:30
In the all the years we've celebrated President's Day, we've never honored a female president, because we've never had one. It's not that women ha...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WLPR
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
In January 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the War on Poverty. Much has changed, but much has stayed the same.
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 02:30
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on what was wrong with the Declaration of Independence.
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 02:30
In honor of the 5th Anniversary of the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota poet Todd Boss has composed 35 poems consisting of 35 words pe...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 18:39
- Purchases: 3
Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...
- Added: Aug 15, 2010
- Length: 04:56
Recorded on January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama became President of the United States, Radio Curious visited again with Congressman Sam Farr, wh...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
An interview with W. Rorabaugh on JFK, plus regular features ...history in the news, commentary and site of the week.
- Added: Nov 22, 2004
- Length: 29:00
