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The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:12
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
Around the world communities are already facing the impacts of climate change. Now international organizations, like the World Bank, are pushing a...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:54
While birthing and raising five children, Pankhurst turned her home into a center where abolitionists, anarchists, activists and revolutionaries of...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Sirleaf has made education free and compulsory for all children in Liberia. She was responsible for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:41
Stanton eventually claimed that the 14th and 15th Amendments, in fact -- because of the way they were worded -- gave women the right to vote
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:51
In 1954, Tamana helped to organize the first Conference of the Federation of South African Women and she was elected to the organization's national...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Many American expats gathered in Brussels on 4th July this year to celebrate American Independence Day. Reporter, Alison Turner, joined the celebr...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 09:53
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose bid to be president. This program looks back at Roosevelt's career and how...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUAF Public Radio, WRPI, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 20:07
- Purchases: 4
Around the world, students have been taking to the streets. They’re opposed to rising tuition fees and cuts to education. On this edition, we’ll ...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 4
In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was many things: a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate for women’s rights and sexual freedom, and a ma...
Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 8
The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 6
Under President Obama more than 1 million people have been deported from the United States. Immigration officials claim that many of those being d...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 30:00
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 07:12
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
