Tonight the Youth Collective celebrated our 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, and while we were having an Open House and Party, we also hosted this show! Topics include the Erie Canal, The Simpsons, a vox pop on "America is _____", and a view on how America appears in dystopian science fiction. We also had an interview with Cole Robinson from Portland Parks and Rec, and with Carlos Chavez of the Morpheus Youth Project.

Americans have a lower life expectancy rate, higher rates of heart disease and cancer, and an infant mortality rate that is twice as high as other rich industrialized nations.

Ryan, a KBOO Youth Collective member , interviews Spencer Chang: Assistant Professor at University of Oregon who specializes in Theoretical High Energy Physics.

On Wednesday, the Portland City Council passed some of Mayor Sam Adams main initiatives. KBOO's Zeke Harrington has more.

We take a look at mass incarceration and racism in America today through Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

We begin with a speech given by Michelle Alexander in New York in February of 2010, and then will hear from various community members who participated in a Book Group at the Talking Drum Bookstore, located in Reflections coffee shop on NE Killingsworth. This group is going through the book in six weeks, chapter by chapter, to study how and why a majority of young Black men in major American cities are locked behind bars and how  the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness.

The KBOO Youth Collective did a workshop at the Holgate Library for their Teen Council, and taught the skill of recording Vox Pops. Listen to see how they did!