The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Braveheart Women’s Society, a group of Yankton Sioux grandmothers and tribal elders, have re-established an almost forgotten coming of age ritual for young girls—the Isnati, a four day traditional ceremony on the banks of the Missouri River in South Dakota.

Betty Reid Soskin, the nation's oldest serving Park Ranger, works at the Rosie the Riveter Home Front World War II National Historical Park in Richmond, CA. As a Black woman who worked in the segregated war effort, her perspective helps reveal a fuller, richer understanding of the World War II years on the Homefront as experienced by women and people of color.

The Peabody Award winning Sonic Memorial —an intimate and historic documentary commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood through audio artifacts, rare recordings, voicemail messages and interviews—narrated by author Paul Auster.

In the aftermath of the devastating 2020 CZU August Lightning Complex fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains, The Kitchen Sisters turned their microphones on the region, looking for what was lost and what has been found since lightning struck.

We travel the history of Route 66 from its beginnings as “The Main Street of America,” through the “Road of Flight” in the 1930s, to the “Ghost Road” of the 1980s, as the interstates bypass the businesses and road side attractions of another era. Stories of the first continuously paved highway linking east and west, the hit song "Get Your Kicks on Route 66," the TV show, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and so much more.

The dramatic stories of three pioneering river activists and archivists—Ken Sleight, Katie Lee, and Mark Dubois and the damming of wild rivers in the west. Ken Sleight's archive at Pack Creek Ranch in Utah chronicling over a half century of river guiding and environmental activism was consumed by fire in early June.

The story of Gert McMullin "Mother" of The AIDS Memorial Quilt; the history of the Gay Rights Movement in San Francisco; and Gert's continued work sewing on the frontline— creating PPE for Covid-19 healthcare workers with fabric gathered for the AIDS quilt.

Fifty years ago, a group of some of the top musicians from the United States - Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, the Staple Singers, Santana and more -– boarded a plane bound for Ghana to perform in a musical celebration planned in part for the annual celebration of Ghana’s independence. It was also an invitation to a “homecoming” for many of these noted African-American artists to return to Africa.

A look at The Genius Generation, a new podcast featuring innovative kids, tweens and teens who are using their smarts and ingenuity to invent the change they want to see. And an interview with host Danni Washington, a young science communicator, dedicated to inspiring and educating youth about all things science.

In 1955, the US government sent Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington overseas to promote democracy. Also, an interview with Dave Brubeck's sons Dan and Chris.