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Maathai worked to establish what came to be called the Green Belt Movement to combat desertification, deforestation, water crisis, and rural hunger...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:58
In 2011, when Tawakkol Karman became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Shirley Muldowney was the first person to win two and then three National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel dragster championships.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:19
At nearly thirty years of age, she heard the call to leave her family behind and take her adventurous spirit on the road to Japan, where she joined...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:56
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Mai threw a Pakistani tribal council and the men who raped her an unexpected curve. Rather than kill herself, she sued the rapists in a court of law.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:16
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:14
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
By the time she'd found a small school that would accept her in the Montmarte section of Paris, it was apparent to anyone who would listen that Mic...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:35
And at twenty-eight years of age, having beaten every challenge life threw her, O'Neil climbed into the seat of a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:16
In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:26
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:14
A profile of Anne Hutchinson - a maverick spiritual leader in Massachusetts during the early 1600's.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:08
This is a one hour Christmas music show featuring classics from the 1950's and the 1960's. The program is divided into three sets to allow space fo...
- Added: Oct 03, 2012
- Length: 58:12
- Purchases: 11
ART BLAKEY known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was a Jazz drummer and a pioneer of Be-bop and modern Jazz. This one hour program is an introduction...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 52:24
- Purchases: 3
IEEE Spectrum Radio takes your listeners around the globe to find the fastest things on earth.
Bought by KTSW 89.9, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMXT, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 13
Original and founding member of SLY & THE FAMILY STONE'S JERRY MARTINI talks about the history of the group and his new cover band THE FAMILY STONE...
Bought by Raven Radio and KMUW
- Added: Apr 08, 2012
- Length: 58:27
- Purchases: 2
The problem of gun violence among teens and young adults isn’t exclusive to Indianapolis. But it turns out that the way the city is tackling the pr...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:42
This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song.
The program includes three individual sets, and includ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 50:18
- Purchases: 8
Interview with RON BANKS, founder of the R&B vocal group THE DRAMATICS. Ron talks with HOWARD BURCHETTE about all of their hits, GEORGE CLINTON, TH...
Bought by WJAB
- Added: Dec 21, 2011
- Length: 55:22
- Purchases: 1
General Kearny leads the Army of the West to Santa Fe and claims New Mexico for the United States of America.
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 1
