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Margaret Sanger
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Lucy Stone
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Emmeline Pankhurst
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Dora Tamana
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Wangari Muta Maathai
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Tawakkol Karman
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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In 2011, when Tawakkol Karman became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:48
Mukhtar Mai
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Louise Michel
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
The 1992 LA Rebellion: Twenty Years Later
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:13
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Samuel Huntington, January 5, 1796
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The first President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, died today. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "What happened to George Washington?" W...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
AVR Interview: Robert Platshorn - Black Tuna Diaries: America's Most Notorious Marijuana Smuggler
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Black Tuna Diaries
Robert Platshorn "Bobby Tuna" spent 30 years behind bars after being convicted of marijuana smuggling in the 1970's. Out of prison now, Bob has pie...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 30:46
Steven Culp
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Talented actor looks back on his roles in Desperate Housewives and Star Trek Enterprise. We also chat about his movie role in Thirteen Days and Fro...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 31:46
Interview with Catholic Worker James Douglass on: JFK and the Unspeakable
From: Chris Goldstein
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Chris Goldstein interviews Catholic Worker James Douglass on his book JFK and the Unspeakable. The book reveals a President at odds with the milita...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2009
  • Length: 33:27
The First Fireside Chats: FDR in Albany
From: Cliomedia ~ University at Albany History and Media Program
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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s use of radio for political purposes was revolutionary; it began, though, not in Washington D.C. with his Fireside Chats, bu...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WRPI


  • Added: Jan 06, 2009
  • Length: 20:28
  • Purchases: 2
Active Voice Radio 6-25-08: Terry Aladjem - The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
From: Chris Goldstein
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Terry Aladjem of Harvard University discusses his new book that explores the psychology and philosophy of Vengence in America

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dave Brubeck on the Oneness of Man and Music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Dave Brubeck on the Power of Music and Exchange.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 18
Dave Brubeck on Cultural Exchange
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Dave Brubeck on the importance of Cultural Exchange

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 19
Jazz Ambassadors
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Jazz Master Dave Brubeck on US Jazz Ambassadors of the 1950s

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 19
The Clash: Revolution Rock
From: Joyride Media
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A new one-hour radio special pays tribute to "the only band that matters" with both exclusive and archival interviews.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Prairie Public, WTJU, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Presidential Shortcuts
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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Historical look at Presidential Elections

Bought by KBRP Community Radio and KGLT


  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 27:36
  • Purchases: 2
The History of This I Believe - Pledge Special 2 (non-newscast)
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Jay Allison hosts a documentary exploring the history of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series of the early 1950s.

Bought by WEZU, KJZZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KERA, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 05, 2007
  • Length: 38:01
  • Purchases: 5
The History of This I Believe - Pledge Special 1 (newscast compatible)
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Jay Allison hosts a documentary exploring the history of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series of the early 1950s.

Bought by WEZU, Marfa Public Radio, KJZZ, and WCBU


  • Added: Oct 05, 2007
  • Length: 44:00
  • Purchases: 4