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A selection of mother related messages from callers to the Kitchen Sisters' NPR phone-line.
For Mother's Day 2011
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- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 04:54
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Togo, a tiny country in Africa, is one of the world's poorest countries.
Despite clear evidence that educating girls and young women is the surest...
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 50:58
Sherell McGee never had a stable home. A product of the D.C. foster care system, McGee was until recently living with two of her four children at h...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 05:55
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When you’re sick, looking up symptoms online is not always the best idea. But if you have a disease that’s poorly understood and often overlooked b...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 13:15
- Purchases: 2
The Russian government wants to improve its country's birthrate. One way to do that is to improve maternity care and reduce infant mortality. But n...
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 04:53
Widows from WWII, Vietnam and Iraq wars discuss changes over time from the loss of their husbands in war.
- Added: Mar 16, 2014
- Length: 29:00
The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...
Bought by KRZA, XRAY.fm, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
At first glance, Raquel Miller has more than a few things in common with a Hollywood heiress. She wears her hair in long, soft curls or braids and ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:56
Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti takes on the delicate topic of at-home abortion, which typically means ingesting a pill or an herb that will c...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 06:56
- Purchases: 1
Listen to songs by Freebo, an explanation of the Emotion Roadmap, a real time successful conversation with a woman who wants to trust her husband a...
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 30:37
We explore the role of the community in supporting moms to breastfeed their babies.
- Added: Aug 08, 2013
- Length: :47
The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...
Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
Rape and rape glamorization is something that is splashed across cinema screens and adult magazines to earn a profit, but at the same time is also ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 07:53
Since 2001, about 2.5 million people have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, at least a third of them more than once. When they return, many ve...
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 06:36
The House voted this week to ban abortions nationwide after 20 weeks. The Republican sponsor of the bill became the latest Republican to suggest ra...
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
On January 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles in the military. War News Radio reporter Amy DiPie...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 03:47
Since last October, realignment, known legally as AB109, has shifted the responsibility for low-level offenders from state prison to county jails. ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 08:10
As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:42
There is no glass ceiling. So says Financial Times columnist Mrs. Moneypenny. If women aren't getting to the top, she says, they have no one to bla...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 11:51
A look at the latest strange detour in Campaign 2012...The War on Women...told thru narration, music and soundbites.
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 56:15
Misogyny is alive and well in 2012. No surprise ( After all,as you'll hear in this program, even the music of the "peace and love" sixties was fill...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 56:50
Cobi is a Dutch nurse liiving and working in a South African township. She helps orphans getting over their Aids HIV stigma and against the violenc...
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 10:38
We take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure in nail salons, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail...
- Added: Nov 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
- Added: Oct 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
When U.S. soldiers come back home on leave, they fly through a few central airports. For soldiers headed west of the Mississippi River, that airpor...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPVL, Troy Public Radio, Delta College Public Radio, The Story and more
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 7
