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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
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
This week on Culture Queue, we deal with losses of all kinds. We start with a ballot issue, a topic that inherently involves both winning and losin...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 30:58
The Mayor of New York held a big fundraiser in New York recently to support candidates who want consensus in Washington. As we listen to Mr. Bloomb...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 03:52
Magical thinking. According to the McGraw Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine, this is a condition, “similar to a normal stage of childhood ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 28:16
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
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
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
A profile of Occupy's first politician
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 07:06
Mindless reporting from election night when there's nothing to report. Network News Rules!!
- Added: Sep 03, 2012
- Length: 03:44
Mother Nature and God respond to Paul Ryan's comment that "our rights come from nature and God, not government."
- Added: Sep 02, 2012
- Length: 02:11
MESL (Michigan English as a Second Language) class, META (Men for the Edible Treatment of Animals), and the latest in what the rich are blowing the...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 28:14
A Paid Political Message from Idiots With Guns
Bought by KPVL and Delta College Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
The kids are in a frenzy for Mr. Money, a new television series starring the Koch brothers promises to deliver the laughs, the Catholic Church has ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 24:26
The Starship Enterprise lands in Arizona and discovers a primitive life form:Republicans.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 03:43
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 31:45
