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Wilkerson, Isabel — America’s Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Fandango at the Vote: SURJ & Arturo O'Farrill
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Looking back on the midterm elections, we ask the tough questions about white women voters and race, then get introduced to the hi-pinky salute acr...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Time for Ilhan
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we interview Chris Newberry a producer and director of photogrophy for the film Time for Ilhan the story of the first ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:52
The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 5
How Women in the '50s Had More Political Influence
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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This election cycle is being billed as another “Year of the Woman” … with a record number of female candidates running for office. Despite increasi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Moms at Work
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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A sociologist investigates how public policies affect family life in both Europe and the US and shares some of her findings on the laws and cultura...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 16:30
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 3, 2018
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Kavanaugh’s Elite Prep School Privilege and Entitlement Pervades his Polit...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 26, 2018
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: String of Sexual Assault Charges Upends GOP Defense of SCOTUS Nominee Kav...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Patriotic Women
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Patriotic Women - including Patrice Michaels, Credit: Cedille
Have you seen The Notorious RBG? You can hear works in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as well as American Canvas by Jennifer Higdon, and The...

Bought by KMUN, High Plains Public Radio, WETS, KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 16, 2018
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Israel Massacres Dozens of Palestinians at Gaza Border as U.S. 'Celebrate...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, and KMXT


  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cynthia and the City: Will Cynthia Nixon’s Celebrity Past Get Her to The Governor’s Mansion?
From: Augusta Anthony
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Cynthia Nixon is running for Governor. You probably know this and you probably know her from her days as sassy corporate lawyer Miranda Hobbes in ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:21
Anarchy Is Intersectional: Learning from Emma Goldman
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mug shot taken in 1901 when Goldman was implicated in the assassination of President McKinley.
Our show today is Anarchy is Intersectional: Learning from Emma Goldman. Goldman, a feminist anarchist, was disdainful of what is now called “Lean ...

Bought by KBBI Alaska and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 2
Sustainable Population Roadblocks: Bill Ryerson #214 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Most scientists agree the current level of human population, in combination with present living arrangements, is damaging our ecosystems. But doing...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Being a Woman at Utah's Capitol
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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KUER's Nicole Nixon has been looking into the sexual dynamics at Utah's State House. She spoke with some of the women--legislators and lobbyists--...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 18:00
Jesus in the White House
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Gina Messina
If Jesus was President, how would his policies measure up against those of the Trump Administration? Would Christians of the Trump Era support a Pr...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending December 29, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth, Progressive Analysis
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Unpopular GOP Tax Code Revision Rewards Party Donors, Exacerbates Inequali...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending Oct. 27, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump's Decertification of Iran Nuclear Deal Isolates and Weakens U.S.; Wi...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women and Children First: The Dialectic of Sex
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Shulamith Firestone in about 1970, the year “The Dialectic of Sex” was published. Credit Michael Hardy
The Dialectic of Sex is widely considered the most influential book of Second Wave Feminism. In it Firestone argues that the biological sexual dich...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Women's Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment
From: Nahanni Rous
Caption: March to Support the Equal Rights Amendment, New York City, 1976., Credit: Diana Mara Henry
Women won the right to vote in 1920, but the fight for equality was only beginning. After she led the suffrage movement to victory, Alice Paul dra...

Bought by WHFR and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 2
Rise to Run Helps Women with Political Aspirations
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Rise to Run is a national organization working at the grass roots level to instill confidence and skills in young women with political aspirations.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending July 7, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Senate Healthcare Bill Will Cause 22 Million to Lose Health Insurance, Ten...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Strange Life of Work: Kathi Weeks
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Or in oth...

Bought by XRAY.fm and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Hillary Clinton: Always the Wrong Kind of Woman?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Regardless of your politics, regardless of her politics, it’s hard to argue that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been on the receiving end of a constant and...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:01
Dissecting Male Supremacy: Kate Millett's Sexual Politics
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:00