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Caption: A meeting at A Woman's Coffee House, Credit: Janet Dahlem
In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 46:02
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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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In this short episode, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker talks about the reasons for her iconic speech atop a police car and the impact of the Stud...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
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I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Thien Tran, Credit: Orlando Gili
'A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran' is a firsthand profile of long-time Soho, London resident Thien Tran. In this poignant piece, Thien discusses the chal...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:00
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The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 19:45
Caption: Host Bobby Wooten
"America, Learn Your History" began as a popular Instagram series by composer and professor Bobby Wooten. Join us for our first radio special: Ston...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, RadioStPete Florida, WILL, KZYX, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 28
Caption: Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Whipple, Credit: https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fap033
Archives tell an important story. The people in them—and the people left out—say a lot about our politics, culture, and consciousness. Today, resea...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 17:12
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HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: Christopher Z. Hobson
February 2023 — The gap that LGBTQ youth experience when their people’s history is suppressed. Originally presented in 2017.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KECG


  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Episodes from two award winning podcasts from Wyoming Public Radio.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Michael McConnell (left) and Jack Baker (right) with their wedding cake, featuring a two-groom topper, in Minneapolis, Minn. on September 3, 1971., Credit: Paul Hagen
Jack Baker and Michael McConnell got married in 1971, decades before same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States. They came to StoryCorps ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sunset over Provincetown Harbor, Credit: Provincetown Tourism Office
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Pride Month with an eclectic hour of music written and performed by LGBTQ+ Jews.

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WCQS, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Pauli Murray circa 1931, age 21, Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios
Pauli Murray was a 20th century Black Queer civil rights trailblazer and legal scholar you’ve probably never heard of. On this edition of Out in th...

Bought by KALW, KVSC, KUT, and WORT


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Patrick Scully and the cast of "Leaves of Grass - Illuminated" take a bow at the end of a staging of their production. , Credit: Mark Wojahn
‘Leaves of Grass - Illuminated’ is a live performance film of Patrick Scully's acclaimed stage play by the same name. Scully performs the role of r...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 06:25
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April Baer of Michigan Radio's "Stateside" talks with Joshua Prager about his book "The Family Roe."

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
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While Black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, A Black...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KUHF, KUT, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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The story of marriage equality in the United States, told through two Supreme Court cases.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WCMU Michigan, KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WFAE and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Alan Gotlib (right) was walked down the aisle by his mother Regina. , Credit: Submitted by Alan Gotlib
This man threw himself a 'coming out' party, 40 years after first declaring his sexual orientation. From CBC's "The Doc Project"

Bought by WVPE, KOSU, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Pride Month begins with former California Supreme Court attorney, Michael Nava. The author of now ten novels in the Henry Rios mystery series, seve...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The Women’s March in January 2017 was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. Anywhere from 3 to 5 million Americans--most of them women--t...

Bought by KHEN-LP, Ohm Radio , WCNY, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The Women’s March in January 2017 was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. Anywhere from 3 to 5 million Americans--most of them women--t...

Bought by WTJU, WMMT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11