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Gabrielle Petit
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
Fannie Lou Hamer
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Emma Goldman
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Blanche Stuart Scott
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Scott -- called "The Tomboy of the Air" -- was part of Curtiss' exhibition team, flying upside down and plummeting to the earth in "death dives," ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:21
The Songsters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: George & Ira Gershwin
Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Gospel Ranger
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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One of the last songs that Johnny Cash recorded before he died was called, “There Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down).”

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WABE, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 6
It's About Eubie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Young Eubie Blake
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.

Bought by KMUW, WVIA, KCBX, and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
All Mixed Up with Martin Luther King Jr.
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: MLK Jr-Washington,DC 1963
A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr and the historic March on Washington that took place in August 1963, with new mixes featuring Israel Kamakaw...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KVMR, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:43
  • Purchases: 26
Ikey
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Banjo Ikey Robinson
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Needle Drop: 01-08-13
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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Music from Holograms, Fiona Apple, Dope Body, and more.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KSRQ, KSJD, WTIP, WNJR and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:54:04
  • Purchases: 7
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2012 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As 2013 approaches, we look at some of the important issues we've covered in 2012: from domestic workers struggling for respect, to the consequence...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander, Associate Law Professor at Moritz School of Law and Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." , Credit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
London Fats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas "Fats" Waller
Thomas “Fats” Waller was known for his comedic style vocals, and his feverish motions of left hand creating a profound pattern of “Stride” piano, b...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Pettis & his Pets
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jack Pettis
Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Valentina Tereshkova
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Tereshkova climbed aboard the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, and was launched into space to orbit the Earth forty-eight times over a three day period.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:30
Susie King Taylor
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
Sophie Scholl
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Highly frustrated at this bold resistance right under their noses, the Nazi Powers-That-Be identified and arrested Sophie, her brother and one othe...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
Sally Rand
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Rand was even arrested once wearing long underwear and a "censored by the SFPD" sign -- despite the judge's immunity ruling

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Smith-Robinson was voted the SNCC's Executive Secretary (its chief administrator) and, as such, was a focused and militant Black Power proponent.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
Robin Morgan
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Her anthology entitled Sisterhood is Powerful, called one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by the New York Library, covered su...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
Pat Schroeder
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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She's the one who told a bunch of Pentagon leaders -- when she was on the House Armed Services Committee -- that if they were women, they'd be preg...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:23
Marina Raskova
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
Marie-Jeanne Roland
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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When she was found guilty of treason and "political activism" (which wouldn't even have been considered a crime for a man), she was sentenced to die.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:45
Margaret Sanger
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in the United States, where she began distributing, among other things, diaphragms...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Mamie Till
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:30

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