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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
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
Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 29:01
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
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Legendary folksinger and social activist Pete Seeger is receiving long-delayed appreciation for his immense contribution to American music and cult...
Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KWIT, KHNS, 90.5 WSNC, KRCB 104.9 and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2011
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 16
Renowned author Chris Hedges paints a bleak picture of our world today, in rapid economic, environmental, and religious decline-but we still have a...
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Program I: Origins
How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...
Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 52:40
- Purchases: 27
As a contribution to Women’s History Month, we travel with Lynn C. Miller on an excursion into the Archive of Forgotten Women where we encounter Vi...
- Added: Mar 11, 2011
- Length: 38:52
- Purchases: 4
Earlier this year, members of the Dane County League of Women Voters gave reporter Lauren Peterson a stern talking-to about suffrage, civic respons...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 04:18
We know what history books say about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech - but what about the people who were there?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WTIP, KRCB 104.9, WHFR and more
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 28
We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...
Bought by KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial a...
Bought by WMMT, WRPI, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 27, 2009
- Length: 58:48
- Purchases: 4
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
Clips from Barack Obama's2008 victory speech are mixed with Obama campaign trail song favorites and others that underline his remarks.
Bought by PRX PromCom, WGBH Radio Boston, and WKMS
- Added: Nov 05, 2008
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 3
Musicians routinely sing about love--love in bloom and love gone bad. But there's another songwriting tradition as well--the political or protest ...
Bought by WORLDcompass.org, WFHB, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 27, 2008
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 3
Examining how social safety nets are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 24, 2008
- Length: 08:09
- Added: Oct 17, 2008
- Length: 59:59
I asked "Who Do You Think Should Be The Next President?" To People Around my school.
- Added: Oct 16, 2008
- Length: 02:26
Examining how health care is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 15, 2008
- Length: 09:17
Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
Examining how science and technology are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:52
