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On January 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles in the military. War News Radio reporter Amy DiPie...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
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Since last October, realignment, known legally as AB109, has shifted the responsibility for low-level offenders from state prison to county jails. ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
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As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, ...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 09:42
Caption: Women working WWII, Credit: Creative Commons
There is no glass ceiling. So says Financial Times columnist Mrs. Moneypenny. If women aren't getting to the top, she says, they have no one to bla...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 11:51
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A look at the latest strange detour in Campaign 2012...The War on Women...told thru narration, music and soundbites.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 56:15
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Misogyny is alive and well in 2012. No surprise ( After all,as you'll hear in this program, even the music of the "peace and love" sixties was fill...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 56:50
Caption: Cobi teaching some of her 200 orphans, Credit: Anton Foek.
Cobi is a Dutch nurse liiving and working in a South African township. She helps orphans getting over their Aids HIV stigma and against the violenc...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 10:38
Caption: Uyen Nguyen, owner of Isabella Nail Bar, Credit: Pauline Bartolone
We take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure in nail salons, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
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 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Constance Carman says goodbye to a soldier., Credit: Julia Barton
When U.S. soldiers come back home on leave, they fly through a few central airports. For soldiers headed west of the Mississippi River, that airpor...

Bought by The Story, Public Radio Remix, and WAMC


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Rosina Philippe wonders whether Grand Bayou can survive as a subsistence community., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Members of the Atakapa-Ishak tribe have found a creative use for a high-tech fencing material that has protected soldiers in Iraq and strengthened ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
Caption: Darla Rooks looks out over the oiled marshland of Bay Jimmy. , Credit: Barry Yeoman
It has been over a year since the Deepwater Horizon blowout, but it’s still too early to measure the complete cost of the ensuing disaster. Despite...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 11:47
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Jane O'Connor is a young woman from Dublin whose mother was a big fan of the film Groundhog day. The irony of her beloved film choice was that when...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 11:28
  • Purchases: 5
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The Mother Tongue Monologues present Black women telling it like it is, with all its' truths, brazen acts, shouts and silent revolutions, from slav...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 58:04
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Architects re-imagine Boston and New York with rising sea levels brought on by climate change.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
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April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, and for one Central New York woman, this is personal.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2010
  • Length: 18:31
Caption: NPR's Deb Amos, Credit: NPR.org
NPR's Deborah Amos talks about the importance of foreign correspondents, her hopes for political reconciliation in Iraq, and her nightmares.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 10:43
Caption: Sue Dublin with her dog, Rose, Credit: Jasmyn Belcher
A 54-year-old woman living with Alzheimer's disease in Central New York is sounding the alarm, as more and more Americans face the same diagnosis.

Bought by WAMC and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
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A program from our sister studio, the Sudan Radio Project.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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Low income immigrant women own their own green, eco-friendly cleaning businesses.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Southern Sudanese women honor late peacemaker John Garang., Credit: The Associated Press
Analysis and exploration of current issues surrounding the conflict in Darfur.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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A business model that creates worker-owned green businesses and healthy jobs for low-income women.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 1
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The story of “Kathy”… a 9-year-old whose life was turned upside down after her parents were arrested during a workplace raid.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 15, 2009
  • Length: 12:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Guljumma, 7, with her father Wakil Tawos Khan, at the Helmand Refugee Camp District 5 in Kabul on August 31, 2009. Last year, an air attack by the US military struck their home in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. She lost an arm in the bombing., Credit: Reese Erlich
Marine corporal Rick Reyes and other anti-war activists travel to Afghanistan to meet with government officials, women’s rights activists and ordin...

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  • Length: 28:56
Caption: Sudanese women protest the arrest of journalist Lubna Hussein., Credit: Associated Press
Analysis and exploration of current issues surrounding conflicts in Sudan.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:00