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Caption: Adjoa Andoh playing the fan favorite, Lady Danbury, on Netflix’s Bridgerton.
“Don’t worry about if you’re messing up as a woman or messing up, you know, as representing women of Chinese heritage or Iranian heritage or Grenad...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 19:43
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How should we talk about race and racism in America when the divide between Black and white can be so vast?

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:08:18
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Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:33
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After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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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Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Caption: Will Downing & Friends, Credit: Steve Edwards
Its another blockbuster of music mayhem on the soul show with an archive feature of one of the best funk bands to come out of Dayton Ohio- Slave. T...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:54
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Mob madness leads to a pivotal feminist protest during the dark days of Jim Crow racism.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KUER, WCPN, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6