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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr to KBOO.  Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Rese... Read more

This Is Your Brain On Drugs

Airs at: Fri, 11/17/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Prison Breakdown
This meaty episode digs into the modern escalation of the War on Drugs through a rhetorical analysis of the 1989 National Drug Control Strategy, a review of the concrete policing and sentencing policies which lead to the exponential rise in prison populations, and a ground-... Read more

Putting People First

Airs at: Sun, 11/19/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
On this edition of Century of Lies, we discuss stigma, language, mental health, harm reduction, and drug policy reform with Sarah Merrigan, one of the hosts of the This Week In Drugs podcast. Read more

November 17 Portland Resistance Calendar

Airs at: Fri, 11/17/2017 at 5:00pm - Fri, 11/24/2017 at 5:00pm
Updated Monday, November 20. Want more info? Click on the links for the details. Want to print out the list? There's a printable PDF. Wanna see into the future? Check out kboo.fm/resist/nov upcoming events. Thanks so very much for reading, and thank you, KBOO members & ... Read more

Happy Women in Apprenticeship Day!

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for Evening News
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, established by President Obama in 2015. Today, November 16, is Women in Apprenticeship Day in Oregon as declared by Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. In Portland, one of the primary organizations working wi... Read more

"Traitor to American Exceptionalism and White Supremacy"

Airs at: Fri, 11/17/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
   Mathew Hoh is a member of the advisory board of Expose Facts, Veterans For Peace and world Beyond War. In 2009 he resigned his postion with the Stae Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the Afghan War by the Obama Administration. He priviously has be... Read more

Bofill Profile

Airs at: Fri, 11/17/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for From the Grassroots
On Friday Nov 17th from 8pm-10PM ,”From the Grassroots--where we agitate for social change with music and commentary will honor Bofill ;a Latina songstress who crossed over from jazz to R&B. She had such a rich voice that captivated our communities and gave us strength duri... Read more

Native Voices from the Edge

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Guest hosts Cary Watters & Amory Zschach welcome Denise Wickert to speak about mental health in the Native community & Traci Price to discuss the intersection of environmental justice and environmental education. NAYA FAMILY CENTER IN 2061 Guided by our elders and trust... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 14

Airs at: Wed, 11/15/2017 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for Combined Culture Radio

Local electroshock survivor brings historic class action lawsuit against device manufacturers

Airs at: Wed, 11/15/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
    McMinnville-based Deborah Schwartzkopff is a retired trauma nurse with experience working in addictions with dual diagnosis clients. She has been an activist against the practice of Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) since 2011, after she herself underwent extensive sho... Read more