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Artist Kelly Schirmann discusses her newest book of poetry and prose, "The New World."
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 29:00
2020 will marked six years since the #SayHerName movement was created. Today, the deaths of Black women and girls at the hands of law enforcement s...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
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
Anne Helen Petersen discusses her book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, To Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman. She also reads a short passage.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
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...
- Added: Jan 14, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Quality of healthcare for women in jail varies widely, but it is the only place in the U.S. where they have a legal right to it. Professor Carolyn ...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 25:18
As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 56:31
Two and one-half minute commentary on sexual assault in the military and what the Navy is doing to stop it.
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
economist Jeff Rubin. Actor Tab Hunter. Music: No Joy
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 01:02:06
Afghanistan is a place where peace just won’t stick. Radical Islamist Taliban insurgents have intensified their attacks on the capital with brazen ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 02:30
President Obama wants the minimum wage raised to $10.10 an hour. Conservatives claim it will destroy entry level jobs for new workers. They're wro...
- Added: Mar 13, 2014
- Length: 02:30
It's been forty-one years since the landmark Roe V. Wade decision legalized abortion in the U.S. But foes have never stopped in their quest to ove...
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 02:30
On November 19th citizens of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will vote on the first city-level 20 week abortion ban in the U.S., with no exceptions for r...
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 02:30
President Obama got a short reprieve when Russia put forward a plan to avoid a U.S. missile strike on Syria by sequestering Syria’s chemical weapon...
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one half minute commentary on why House Republicans took their 40th meaningless vote to repeal Obamacare before getting out of town for a 5...
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 02:30
The 2013 South By South West Film Festival, in Austin, Texas, is the setting for this Fresh Talk feature. Cathy Byrd meets filmmakers Mike Lerner a...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 12:24
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
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jan 19, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Josimene is ten years old. She is one of Haiti's 300,000 restavecs, or child slaves. While her parents were promised she'd be educated if they sen...
- Added: Apr 23, 2009
- Length: 12:57
Professor of Politics Asma Barlas discusses her experiences as a Muslim and her research regarding women and Islam
- Added: Aug 17, 2007
- Length: 27:00
- Added: May 17, 2006
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
