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Family Jewels Pt 3: Meddling In Your Mind (1975)
Our miniseries on the 1975/76 Church Committee findings on CIA and FBI operations continues. This episode, we re-visit our conversation about the MKU…
3 years, 10 months ago
Family Jewels Pt 2: Meddling At Home (1975) w/ Rick Perlstein
Our miniseries on the 1975/76 Church Committee findings on CIA and FBI operations continues. This episode, we look at what Americans learned with reg…
3 years, 10 months ago
Family Jewels Pt 1: Meddling Abroad (1975) w/ Rick Perlstein
We’ve got a new miniseries for you, looking back at the 1975 Church Committee hearings and report, which disclosed a wide array of shady behavior by …
3 years, 10 months ago
Our Bodies, Ourselves (1969)
It’s May 5th, 1969. In Boston, a group of women are meeting to share information about women’s health, which would eventually lead to writing a 193-p…
3 years, 10 months ago
Haymarket and the Roots of May Day (1886)
It’s May 4th. This day in 1886, a deadly riot between police and protesters broke out in Haymarket Square in Chicago.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss …
3 years, 10 months ago
The She She She Camps (1934)
It’s May 1st. This day in 1934, Eleanor Roosevelt is holding a series of meetings at the White House to plan out a number of camps for women that wou…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Monkey Mayor of Hartlepool (2002) w/ Tim Harford
It’s April 28th. This day in 2002, the northeastern English town of Hartlepool is gearing up for a mayoral election, where they would end up voting i…
3 years, 11 months ago
Henrietta Wood Sues For Reparations (1878)
It’s April 26th. This day in 1878, a verdict is delivered in a suit brought by the formerly-enslaved woman Henrietta Wood. She sued her former enslav…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Moton Walkout and the "Lost Generation" (1951)
It’s April 24th. This day in 1951, Black students at Robert Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia have walked out of school, staging a strike over…
3 years, 11 months ago
They're Trying To Wash Us Away (1927) w/ Wright Thompson
It’s April 21st. This day in 1927, the Mississippi River is in beginning to breach levies and overflows the banks throughout the MS delta.
Jody, Niki…
3 years, 11 months ago