Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who advocates for education and equality for all. As a teenager, she spoke out against the Taliban's ban on girls' education in Pakistan. In 2012, the Taliban shot her in the head while she was riding the bus home from school. This event made her an international symbol of the fight for girls' education.
Harriet Tubman, "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, guided enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War — a piece read produced by KMUD in...
Katharine Meyer Graham was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the...
Eleanor Roosevelt, the conscience of the New Deal - a piece read on KMUD by Katz in 1999.