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Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Historian David Hollinger discusses the long-lasting influence of liberal Protestantism. Though conservative Evangelicals get more media attention,...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:12
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The Candidates for Newark Mayor in conversation with host Alfred Bundy individually.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:03:33
Caption: Candidate Anton Wheeler
Host Alfred Bundy talks to West Ward Councilmen Candidate, Anton Wheeler

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 31:29
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
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In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
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Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
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We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
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Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
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George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 4
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Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:24
Caption: San Quentin State Prison
In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all execu...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 26:32
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Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times talks with series host Martha Burk on what it's like to cover the presidential campai...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
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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
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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
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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