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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
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:22
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 26:22
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 21:38
At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 4
In 1972, Shirley Chisholm launched a spirited campaign for the Democratic nomination. She was the first woman and first African American to run. De...
Bought by WAMC, Public Radio Remix, KUT, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:37
- Purchases: 5
Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 3
In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was many things: a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate for women’s rights and sexual freedom, and a ma...
Bought by Prairie Public, Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 4
In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 3
The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 3
In 1940 the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Grac...
Bought by The Story, Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 5
Six monster banks control 60% of the US Gross National Product
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 03:59
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 59:25
- Purchases: 1
Fast-forward to January 2009. A new President is in the Oval Office. How will he ? or she ? grease the wheels of official Washington to get an age...
- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 32:03
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the twelfth pr...
- Added: Nov 17, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. The Shift of Land ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2007
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. The Shift of Land ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2007
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the ninth progr...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 15, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In this program Ne...
- Added: Nov 15, 2007
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the sixth progr...
- Added: Nov 14, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the fifth progra...
- Added: Nov 13, 2007
- Length: 29:07
- Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. The third program ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Haiti is often considered a classic example of a failed state. But what does that actually mean in practice?
- Added: Oct 12, 2006
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 2
