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Who Invented Mother's Day? Not Hallmark or the Florist Society
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas Traditions Around the World: Is Santa in a pickle?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
International Day of the Girl Child: We're NOT number one
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Labor Day: Some So-called Good Guy Companies are Bad Guys for Workers
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Labor Day has been a national holiday since 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a day off for...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Pride Month - Many Victories, But Rough Sledding Ahead?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
June is Pride Month, and June 28th is Pride Day, marking the unofficial beginning of "Gay Liberation" in 1969 with the Stonewall riots in New York...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Equal Pay Day is March 14 - Are Women Catching Up with Men?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
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
The Secret Meeting that Transformed the World Economy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, NPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley talks with Jeffrey Garten, former Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton Admi...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Charles Person
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:26:58
A Conversation with JoAnne Blackmon Bland
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:06:54
A Conversation with Dave Dennis
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:31:59
A Conversation with Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:34
A Conversation with Ruby Bridges
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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The little girl who went to school with federal marshals as escorts has something to say about what she went through and what we are going through ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:02:02
The Emergence of Janis Joplin (one-hour version)
From: Paul Ingles
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Music documentarian Paul Ingles presents a 1-hour exploration and celebration of the music of rock legend Janis Joplin featuring author Holly Georg...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Amistad
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Oil painting of La Amistad off the coast of Long Island , Credit: Courtesy of the New Haven Museum
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
Hillary Haden, Executive Director of the WA Fair Trade Coalition, WTO Protest
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: WTO Protest: 20th Anniversary
Interview by Gary Kanter: Hillary revisits the 20-year anniversary of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, sometimes referred to as ...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
David Jepsen and Conor Casey, Centralia Tragedy, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: David Jepsen & Conor Casey
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
The Political Edge: Part Six of a Seven Part Series on the Ocean Edge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town, South Africa, Credit: Photo by Victor Smits on Unsplash
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
Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?
From: Amy Roost
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
1968: 50 Years Later - Part 3: The Voters Have Their Say
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Part 3 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. Richard Nixon stages a political comeback. Segregationist Gov...

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  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
1968: 50 Years Later - Part 2: A Party Divided
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Part 2 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. The Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago, ...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
1968: 50 Years Later - Part 1: Turbulence and Tragedy
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Part 1 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. After a disappointing result in the New Hampshire Primary, Pr...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 15
Political Junkie - 1968: 50 Years Later (PROMOS)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Ken Rudin for 1968: 50 Years Later, a special three-part series looking back on the dramatic political events of 1968. Ken speaks with journal...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 3
Citizenship in the US Virgin Islands
From: Jason Klarl
Caption: Gerard Emanuel, Credit: DaraMonifah Cooper
March 31, 2017 marks the centennial of the transfer of three Caribbean islands from Denmark to the United States. But are Virgin Islanders US Citi...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:59
Our National Parks: Indigenous Voices
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Parks such as Washita Battlefield National Historic Site and Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site have been established and interpreted to tell the difficult stories of atrocities against indigenous people. , Credit: NPS Archives
Though the national parks have famously been called “America’s best idea”, this sentiment is not universally accepted. Native Americans were dispos...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Our National Parks: Turning Admiration Into Action
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: National park boundaries that don’t comport with ecological realities make it challenging to protect animals that range outside the parks. It's just one of the challenges facing the National Park Service., Credit: Tim Rains / NPS
The National Park Service finds itself in a seemingly paradoxical circumstance: widely admired, but increasingly uneasy about its ability to carry ...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1