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Toxic Hate and Guess Who's Coming to Radio

I find it easy to listen to the radio and applaud our DJs and radio producers for the good work they are doing: exposing truth, healing us from daily harshness through amazing music, and keeping the edge of education and uncomfortable radio balanced enough for us to learn f... Read more

Mic Crenshaw Interview

Airs at: Wed, 10/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Mic Crenshaw is many things; a hip hop artist, a music ambassador, an activist and a co-manager at radio station KBOO in Portland. But one thing he is not is someone who holds his tongue about the music scene as it is affected by race or race as it is affected by society. D... Read more

The Breast Cancer Monologues

Airs at: Tue, 10/06/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
​As part of National Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, Stage and Studio presents a half-hour adaptation of The Breast Cancer Monologues. Originally produced in 2003 as a one-hour documentary collage with and about Breast Cancer Survivors produced by Dmae Roberts & M... Read more

The Work Of Doula's and Midwifery

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 12:00am
On this EarToTheStreets podcast...you will hear the discussion from the organizers of the International Center For Traditional Childbearing (ICTC) and the work being done to put together the conference of training for doula's and midwives. ETTS host Stephen G. and Sekoynia ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:  Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary ... Read more

Movie Moles on Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. The film opens in Portland next week at the  Hollywood theatre with a benefit event for the NAACP. Noting the impossibility of fully addressing all the many ... Read more

Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Airs at: Fri, 09/18/2015 at 12:00am
Whenever we envision a world without war, prisons, or capitalism, we are producing speculative fic-tion. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first a... Read more

Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences h... Read more

Movie Moles: What Happened Miss Simone?

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the second of two reviews this episode, movie moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss What Happened Miss Simone?, directed by Liz Garbus, about African American pianist and singer Nina Simone.  Like Amy, the film draws on a rich archive of materials, including Simon... Read more

KBOO interviews witness to fatal police shooting in Oakland

Airs at: Thu, 08/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A policewoman shot a man to death this morning in the Adams Point neighborhood of Oakland, after he assaulted her with what the police have only described as a “metal object,” but which witnesses say was a bike chain. The officer, who has not been named, received a call tha... Read more