Tue, 17 November 2009
Direct download: Hero_of_Day_-_Jason_Blanksma_11_17_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 2:06pm EDT |
Thu, 1 October 2009
|
Wed, 30 September 2009
|
Mon, 28 September 2009
Direct download: Hero_-_Jeremiah_Monroe__09_28_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 4:03pm EDT |
Wed, 19 August 2009
Direct download: Hero_-_Mayor_Tom_Barrett_of_Milwaukee__08_19_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 6:46am EDT |
Wed, 12 August 2009
The mother of the Special Olympics died at age 88.
Direct download: Hero_-_Eunice_Kennedy_Shriver__08_12_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 10:19am EDT |
Thu, 6 August 2009
The action-movie director got involved in a real-life drama of his own, rescuing boaters in distress on the Hudson river. |
Wed, 5 August 2009
Direct download: Hero_of_the_Day_-_Jim_Nicholson__08_05_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 8:34pm EDT |
Tue, 4 August 2009
This human rights champion died of cancer after toppling a dictator and leading her people to liberty.
Direct download: Hero_-_Corazon_Aquino_08_04_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 3:08pm EDT |
Mon, 3 August 2009
When a man approached a LaGuardia airport checkpoint with a knapsack, cylinder, wires and a switch this Port Authority officer knew what to do.
Direct download: Hero_-_Officer_Robert_Keane_of_Port_Authority_08_03_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 2:16pm EDT |
Tue, 28 July 2009
Direct download: Hero_of_Day_-_Judge_Joseph_Dawson.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 9:30pm EDT |
Wed, 22 July 2009
Direct download: Hero_of_the_Day_-_Marc_DiNardo_07_22_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 8:17pm EDT |
Mon, 20 July 2009
Direct download: Hero_of_the_Day_-_Neil_Armstrong__07_20_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 9:21pm EDT |
Tue, 14 July 2009
Direct download: Hero_of_Day_-_Kimberly_Anyadike__07_14_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 11:42am EDT |
Mon, 13 July 2009
Direct download: Hero_of_Day_-_Jesselle_Page__07_13_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 12:20pm EDT |
Mon, 6 July 2009
Direct download: Hero_of_the_Day_-_Seth_Sharp__07_06_09.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 11:05pm EDT |
Mon, 6 April 2009
This receptionist, gravely wounded during the Binghamton massacre, played dead and phoned the cops to summon help.
Direct download: 04_06_09_Hero_of_the_Day_-_Shirley_DeLucia.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 1:51pm EDT |
Thu, 26 March 2009
He plunged into 10 feet of freezing water to save a teen driver who'd skidded off the road into a pond and was sinking fast. |
Thu, 26 February 2009
Joel and Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte are raising awareness of the dire situation in East Congo.
Direct download: 02_26_09_Hero_-_Joel__Benji_Madden_of_Good_Charlotte.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 8:12pm EDT |
Thu, 19 February 2009
The U.S. Attorney General, in a moment of brave candor, called America a "nation of cowards" when it comes to talking about race. |
Wed, 18 February 2009
This Iraq veteran from Mt. Laurel, New Jersey plans to return to the middle east to raise money for schools and hospitals. |
Tue, 17 February 2009
Grameen America, a new offshoot of Yunus' global organization, provides banking services for the poor in Queens. |
Mon, 16 February 2009
Direct download: 021609_Hero_-_Patrick_Rosario.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 6:27pm EDT |
Thu, 12 February 2009
The high tech firm will invest $7 billion in U.S. manufacturing facilities, a move expected to create 7,000 jobs. |
Wed, 11 February 2009
School teacher Cheryl Springsteen, eyewitness to a contract murder, testified in open court against the hit man.
Direct download: 021109_Hero_-_Cheryl_Springsteen.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 12:09pm EDT |
Tue, 10 February 2009
Direct download: 021009_Hero_-_Center_for_an_Urban_Future.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 11:56am EDT |
Mon, 9 February 2009
The Texas Innocece Project cleared the name of Timothy Cole, a wrongfully convicted man who died in prison.
Direct download: 020909_Hero_-_Texas_Innocence_Project.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 11:22am EDT |
Thu, 5 February 2009
Joe Green is a co-creator of the Causes application on Facebook, which has allowed people to donate millions to their favorite charities.
Direct download: 020509_Hero_-_Joe_Green_created_Facebook_Causes.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 9:49am EDT |
Wed, 4 February 2009
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is calling on major food retailers to use frequent-buyer information to alert consumers to the risks of the current salmonella disease outbreak.
Direct download: 02049_Hero_-_Center_for_Science_in_Public_Interest.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 2:09pm EDT |
Tue, 3 February 2009
Tennis star Serena Williams, now the world's top-ranked woman player, also sponsors a secondary school in Kenya, east Africa.
Direct download: 020309_Hero_-_Serena_Williams.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 12:33pm EDT |
Mon, 2 February 2009
Jonathan Keller of Long Island, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, recently died of his wounds.
Direct download: Hero_-_Jonathan_Keller_KIA_in_Afghanistan.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 12:01pm EDT |
Mon, 26 January 2009
Lilly Ledbetter lost a key wage discrimination lawsuit but remained in the fight to get a flawed law changed.
Direct download: 012609_Hero_-_Lilly_Ledbetter.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 10:13am EDT |
Wed, 14 January 2009
The civil rights group got action from the Justice Dept. in the case of immigrants being beaten on Long Island.
Direct download: 011409_Hero_-_Latino_Justice_PRLDEF.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 9:40pm EDT |
Mon, 8 December 2008
Direct download: 120808_Hero_of_Day_-_Alli_Lamhing.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 9:26pm EDT |
Mon, 1 December 2008
Jdimytai "Jimmy" Damour, the security guard trampled to death at a suburban Wal-Mart, was trying to aid a pregnant woman.
Direct download: 120108_Hero_of_Day_-_Jdimytai_Damour.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 8:25pm EDT |
Wed, 26 November 2008
This civil rights attorney won a crushing settlement against a violent Ku Klux Klan organization, bankrupting the group.
Direct download: 112608_Hero_of_Day_-_Morris_Dees.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 6:17pm EDT |
Tue, 25 November 2008
Federal judge Block ruled that the United States government could not use ethnicity as justification for detaining two Egyptian-born men who were questioned for four hours after a cross-country flight in 2004.
Direct download: 112508_Hero_of_Day_-_Frederic_Block.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 6:48pm EDT |