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🎙️ This week on The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates interview series. We're thrilled ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 31:17
In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and wo...
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 20:47
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 15:52
A congressional ban on removing anyone from Medicaid will expire early next year. What will happen to people who lose their coverage, and how are s...
- Added: Jan 23, 2023
- Length: 18:50
Family court judges sometimes decide that domestic abuse claims are not credible. But making the wrong call can end with children paying the ultima...
Bought by WFHB and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
Domestic abuse isn't always physical violence. Civic talks to experts about coercive control and hear from victims about their experiences at home ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2022
- Length: 29:30
This week on Minnesota Native News, a new state judge brings a wealth of Indian Country expertise and a new partnership gives Native students a pla...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WDSE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, KVSC and more
- Added: Aug 04, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 8
Women Rising Radio re-visits the 2020 election year, to assess the outcomes and talk with those who made those outcomes happen, the grassroots elec...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we hear about a radical plan to end poverty: Universal Basic Income. Lauren talks to the team behind an experiment with Guaranteed Incom...
Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, WLPR , KCSB-FM and more
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 9
Financing a business plan or personal project usually means taking out a bank loan, but for many immigrants, there's another alternative. KFAI's Al...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:39
Our ideas about how the anatomical differences in male and female brains explain the behaviors of men and women may be based on bias rather than sc...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
"Impulse Under the Influence" examines campus rape culture and how easy access to alcohol exacerbates the incidence of sexual abuse.
Bought by KMUD
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 55:07
- Purchases: 1
Radio Rookies Temitayo Fagbenle and Gemma Weiner spent the past several months talking to dozens of teenagers who smoke weed about where they buy i...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 08:17
- Purchases: 2
It’s not just about Roe v Wade and the Supreme Court. Local institutions can create restrictions that prevent women from exercising reproductive h...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Oct 02, 2013
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
The National Rifle Association started its Women on Target program in 2000. According to their website, they’ve trained over eighty thousand women...
Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 07:31
- Purchases: 2
As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:42
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Police departments in Minnesota and across the nation are seeing a connection between the sluggish economy and an increase in dom...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 1
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...
- Added: Jun 12, 2012
- Length: 29:01
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation, joins us today.
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 25:33
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, joins us today for an in-depth discussion on the organization's role in...
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 26:08
Our guest today is Tina Tchen, White House Director of the Council on Women and Girls and the Office of Public Engagement.
- Added: Sep 30, 2010
- Length: 25:40
