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Retro seems to be all the rage these days. From fashion to food to music, everything is coming back around again. So this week we are looking into ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 29:31
- Purchases: 1
This week we pay tribute to the women of the world with a show themed in their honor. We start out with Managing Editor Noel Clark, who takes a loo...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 21, 2013
- Length: 31:38
- Purchases: 1
This month's Save America's Treasures recording, features the late, great poet Adrienne Rich, known for her perfectly crafted, award winning poems....
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:55
After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 03:11
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:50
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:18
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
What got Lewis all the recognition, accolades, awards, articles, honors, and even financial rewards, were the many times she climbed in a lifeboat ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:40
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
Scott -- called "The Tomboy of the Air" -- was part of Curtiss' exhibition team, flying upside down and plummeting to the earth in "death dives," ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:21
Whether you like to laugh, shout, sit quietly with your feelings, or just plain get physical, Culture Queue has something for everyone this week. F...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 30:03
- Purchases: 2
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
This week on Culture Queue, we dive into the world of the obscene. First Producer Marcheta Fornoff learns about a little “dirty dancing” for the sa...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 30:06
- Purchases: 1
Composer Harry Warren is best remembered for the music he wrote for Judy Garland, and the musicals, 42nd Street and The Gold Diggers, however, long...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
"The fact is my parents lost all of their assets. If I didn't have something (I was) really into, in my case was piano and jazz, I think it would h...
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 12:08
Tereshkova climbed aboard the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, and was launched into space to orbit the Earth forty-eight times over a three day period.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
