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World-renowned feminist, writer and change-maker Gloria Steinem connects the dots among disparate social movements to reveal the common patterns of...
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 28:30
Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 01:40
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Professor William Bubelis explains how numismatics, or the study of ancient coins, can reveal unique information about ancient cultures.
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 11:35
Program III looks at the tradition of singing out for social change, and how the music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements g...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 52:41
- Purchases: 21
The novel, Running the Rift, follows the life of young Jean Patrick. He’s a gifted Rwandan boy. He knows that running will be his future. What he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 19:35
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Cal Ledbetter and his wife Brownie are heard here in the rebroadcast of their program appearances prior to their passing away.
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Bobby speaks, on this “National Marijuana Day” (April 20, 2013), with Alexander Portelli, mayoral candidate for the city of Albany, NY. They discus...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 44:31
In a recent visit to Cologne, Germany, producer Dred-Scott Keyes spoke with three Afro-German men: Joe Otoyo, Denis Nunekpeku and Ermias Bilai abou...
- Added: Apr 13, 2013
- Length: 59:57
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
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
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
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
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 15:33
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
