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Heaven and Earth

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews James McBride’s 2023 novel,The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, which, he argues, deserves all the wonderful press it has gotten. The love and cooperation between poor Jews and Blacks in a small town in Pennsylvania is the backbone of story, a... Read more

Cascade Festival of African Films and The Nyback Show

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland Community College has hosted the Cascade Festival of African Films for 34 years, inviting filmmakers from the African diaspora to Oregon and welcoming the community to attend screenings free of charge. This year's festival co-directors, Eugenie Jolivett Fontana ... Read more

Culture in Motion

Airs at: Wed, 01/17/2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Host Mic Crenshaw, PRE-RECORDED. Only on KBOO 90.7FM Portland.   ----- Read more

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered by... Read more

Keeping It Real, with Lisa Loving on 01/11/24

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Don't Shoot Portland Founder and Director Teressa Raiford chats about the organization's 10th anniversary of holding a community march on MLK day, plus new work, art gallery shows and how listeners can get involved. Celebrating 10 Years of Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.,... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 15, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
   Patricia Kullberg hosts this MLK Day show, which features the following segments: Identity Politics: Gary Younge is an award-winning author and professor of Sociology at University of Manchester in Great Britain. Younge claims Black, working class, middle class, male, ... Read more

White Supremacy and Teaching about Race

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Earlier this month the authoritarian far right achieved a significant victory in their campaign to eliminate the teaching of anything that contradicts their white supremacist gospel, when they forced the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, a black woman. That res... Read more

Identity Politics

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
For MLK Day, the Moles take up the politics of identity, race and racism, and how identity politics alone, including the politics of racial identity, is an insufficient response to the moment. Gary Younge is an award-winning author and professor of Sociology at University o... Read more

KBOO News In-Depth: Vin Shambry on The Black History 101 Mobile Museum

Airs at: Wed, 01/03/2024 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Vin Shambry of Alberta House talks with Lisa Loving about their collaboration with Vanport Mosaic, presenting the Black History 101 Mobile Museum, Friday, January 5, 2024 5:00 PM and Saturday, January 6, 2024 7:30 PM. It’s free and open to the public at the Alberta House, 5... Read more

Keeping It Real, with Lisa Loving on 01/04/24

Airs at: Thu, 01/04/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guests are Twixx Williams, the film director, and Camiren Kazmende from Word Is Bond speaking on their new documentary film "THE BLACK STARS," which debuted at the Hollywood Theater on Jan. 11.  The film follows a journey to Ghana taken last year by young men who parti... Read more