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Who Invented Mother's Day? Not Hallmark or the Florist Society
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Sonnet Sequence for Edna St Vincent Millay
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: More poems in the tradition: Breathng: American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook
On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
Want a Better Country? Here's a Wish List
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
Equal Pay Day is March 14 - Are Women Catching Up with Men?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
March 14 is date this year when U.S. working women finally reach the amount men earned by the end of last year. And that’s only when all women are...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
It Shoulda Been a Giant Step for Womandkind Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
When the U.S. space program was launched, women were tested for astronaut duty -- and passed.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUOW, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
President's Day - Time for a Female in the White House?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
In the all the years we've celebrated President's Day, we've never honored a female president, because we've never had one. It's not that women ha...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Founding Fathers Fouled Up
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on what was wrong with the Declaration of Independence.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
The Military's "Woman Problem"
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the Pentagon's systemic problem with foxes guarding henhouses when it comes to bat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Woman's History: Susan B. Anthony March 13, 1906
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Our unappreciated national treasure, Susan B. Anthony spent more than five decades in a struggle to transform life for American women by securing t...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Moments in Black History: Rosa Parks
From: N Lorde
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 3
The Ribbon Demonstration
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
The Ribbon Demonstration, on the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima - what people could not bear to lose in a nuclear war.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:14