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How To Reckon With Patriarchy: V, RECKONING & Black History Month: DaMaris Hill, A BOUND WOMAN IS A DANGEROUS THING
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with V, formerly known as Eve Ensler about her collection of essays and poems, Reckoning. Then in honor of Black History Month, we listen ...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
RDD: Valerie Thompson
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Valerie Thompson is a native Toledoan and a graphic designer at ProMedica, but she's more than a graphic designer, she's the environmental designer...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
Okwui Okpokwasili: Visibility for the Invisible, Centering Black Women's Experiences in Performance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Rivete...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, WLRH, KWIT, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Entrepreneurship at its Best
From: Angel Livas
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Welcome to this week's WBB Talkshow. This week, we're excited to introduce you to a fantastic line-up of business owners.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Providing Services that Make a Difference
From: Angel Livas
Series: The Woman Behind The Business
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On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two amazing women who have found solutions to some of the problems affecting the African-American community.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:10
Tapping into your Internal GPS to Guide your Success
From: Angel Livas
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On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two guests who are remarkable and dynamic examples of women walking in their purpose unapologetically.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Building a Business with your Partner
From: Angel Livas
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On this week's WBB Talk we're excited to have a lady who manages benefits for one of the largest law firms in the country.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
72-01: Inside The Ferguson Uprising - Sabaah Folayan, Director of "Whose Streets"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sabaah Folayan
On the 5 year anniversary of the uprising in Ferguson, MO, we're re-airing this conversation--with new trax acknowledging the date. When Michael Br...

Bought by KWIT, KCSB-FM, KWIT, KSJD, KUT and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
An Appetite for Success
From: Angel Livas
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On this week's WBB talk show, we're taking you on a journey to West Africa. That is where the soul of today's guest was marinated in tradition and ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
Doing Business Her Way on Stage at any Age
From: Angel Livas
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Today's show is a compilation of interviews captured during the HOPE Global Forum in Atlanta, GA.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
RDD: Ruby's Dream
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week we're meeting a local business owner. Ruby owns Ruby kitchen in Maumee, Ohio, join us to hear how Ruby turned her dream of owning her own...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:09
103: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism & Sexism - Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Safiya Noble
What we think of as “the great equalizer”-- the internet--and the algorithms behind it, created by humans, is serving up content that is sexist and...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWIT, KUT, KWMR, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
101: Running for Office In the Era of #MeToo: Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Erin Maye Quade
At age 32, Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade is positioned to be at the forefront of a wave of progressive political leaders represent...

Bought by KWMR, KWIT, KUT, KWIT, WNIN and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
99: A Brief but Spectacular Conversation - Steve Goldbloom, Flossie Lewis and Mahogany L. Browne
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: At the Commonwealth Club of CA
After Brief But Spectacular creator Steve Goldbloom filmed 94-year-old retired English teacher Flossie Lewis and “Black Girl Magic” poet activist M...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 11
Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
93: How to age without apology - Nina Collins, author of "What Would Virginia Woolf Do?"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nina Collins
What's so monumental about turning 40 for women and why do we need our own Facebook group? Turns out--pretty much everything. Nina Collins has crea...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWIT, KUT, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
88: Why Rosie the Riveter is "not my icon" - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Betty Reid Soskin
For the past decade, 96-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WW...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
72: How Sabaah Folayan is Changing The Narrative of Ferguson - Director of "Whose Streets"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sabaah Folayan, Credit: Magnolia Pictures
The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri made news, but Sabaah Folayan knew there was more to the story--so she moved across the country...

Bought by KWIT, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 53:03
  • Purchases: 3
Mothers about Mothers
From: Sedge Thomson
Series: West Coast Live
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About NOT Being My Mother - Ruth Reichl talks about her book; Marilyn Yalom on the History of the Breast, Anne Lamott about her daily life; Tillie ...

  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:00
Fresh Talk: Ira Kip
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Ira Kip
In Brooklyn, theater director Ira Kip talks to Cathy Byrd about her new play "She'Baltimore" and the raw space between medical politics and domesti...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 15:58
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Nationally renowned writers, singers, and poets pay tribute to Toni Morrison, whose works have earned her the highest accolades in literature and e...

Bought by WJCT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KWMR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 5
Women and Leadership
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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From preteen girls to college women to female faculty at the highest ranks of academia—a show about how women are learning to become leaders throug...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WJCT, WMPG, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Rufusized: Tony Maiden & kevin Murphy of Rufus Vol. I
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Rufus live on stage (Tony Maiden and Kevin Murphy), Credit: http://www.rufus.org/
The story of RUFUS featuring CHAKA KHAN in their own words, by two of the founding members; keyboardist KEVIN MURPHY and guitarist TONY MAIDEN.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 01:01:57
Melissa Harris-Perry: Confronting Stereotypes of the Black Woman
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, Credit: Melissa Harris-Perry
On this edition, author and political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry speaks about the stereotypes black women face, the resulting impacts o...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCPN, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, KHNS and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6