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Congresswoman Patsy Mink ended discrimination against girls and women in Education with the passage of Title IX in 1972. Listen to stories about Patsy Takemoto Mink from the people who knew her.

Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders. cclaimed scholar and best-selling author Paul Kengor changes that. In this fascinating book, he reveals a singular bond - which included a spiritual connection between the Catholic pope and the Protestant president - that drove the two men to confront what they knew to be the great evil of the 20th century: Soviet communism.

In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical professionals. It is regulated and carefully conducted. And it usually provides a "humane" death. In reality, however, not one of those things is true. Secrets of the Killing State pulls back the curtain on this clandestine punishment practice, presenting a view of lethal injection that states have worked hard to hide. Botched executions are a part of this story, but they are just the tip of the iceberg.

For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse story waiting to be told. Why They Marched is a tribute to the many women who worked tirelessly in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and insisting on their right to full citizenship. 

The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's history. 

July 18, 1969: A car driven by Senator Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Cape Cod. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old former staffer for Kennedy’s brother Robert, died in the crash. The scandal that followed demeaned Kopechne’s reputation and scapegoated her for Ted Kennedy’s inability to run for the presidency instead of acknowledging her as an innocent victim in a tragedy that took her life. Kashatus’s biography of Mary Jo Kopechne illuminates the life of a politically committed young woman who embodied the best ideals of the 60s.

In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham. But three women vehemently opposed the project. Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by three women, out-organized, out-witted, and out-maneuvered the governor, media, and Onassis cartel to hand the powerful Greek billionaire the most humiliating defeat of his business career.

When we hear "Apartheid," we think of South Africa. But for 70 years, Sudan has been ruled by a deadlier, invisible system of racial and cultural exclusion. In this deep-dive episode, New Sudan Centre dissects the concept of "Covert Apartheid." We explore how the Sudanese elite engineered a system that hides behind religion and culture to marginalize the majority. How does it differ from the South African model? And why does the world call it a "civil war" when it is actually a structural crime? Keywords: Sudan War, Apartheid, 1956 State, Darfur, Human Rights, Geopolitics.

Far North Queensland Legacy presents Beyond the Uniform: The Untold Stories. A raw, unfiltered podcast sharing the journeys of veterans and their families. The highs, the battles, the moments that define them. These are the stories you haven’t heard but need to! Ready to deploy this Anzac Day.

Afrika, das sind 54 Länder, genauso heterogen wie die Länder Europas. Wir wollen Vorurteile ausräumen und in Interviews die aktuellen Realitäten jenseits alter Klischees diskutieren. Mit Organisationen, Firmen und der Bevölkerung. Beginnend mit Auma Obama, der Halbschwester des früheren US-Präsidenten Barack Obama und den Erwartungen an den neuen US-Präsidenten. Wir, das sind zwei Journalistinnen mit langjähriger Erfahrung als Korrespondentinnen in Brüssel, Österreich, Bayern, Griechenland, Iran, Jemen und eben - Afrika: Malawi, Äthiopien, Ägypten, Burkina Faso, Kamerun, ...