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Deb Haaland will face many challenges if confirmed as Interior Secretary

Airs at: Wed, 02/10/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
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Buscando America on 02/02/21

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2021 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Art by Californian artist Michelle Robinson. En el programa de esta semana nos unimos a la celebración de Black History Month y presentamos Tambores Esclavos una colaboración del Colectivo Tropicaústica y un recorrido musical que busca África en el Continente Americano. Es... Read more

Myrlie Evers-Williams | Civil Rights Icon

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2021 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Open Air
In 2010, I had the honor and privilege to bring Myrlie Evers-Williams into the studio for an interview. She is the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.  Medgar Evers was murdered in front of his family in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963.   I had originally met My... Read more

Celebrating KBOO Black History and Future!

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2021 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Join KBOO every Tuesday at 7 p.m. throughout the month of February to hear interviews from some of your favorite KBOO programmers!  We'll be diving into the history of Black KBOO, and Black Portland as a whole. We'll cover subjects ranging from gentification, religion, B... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: February 2006 conversation with Dr Manning Marable

Airs at: Thu, 02/04/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Black Book Talk welcomed Dr Manning Marable, author of Living Black History:  How Reimagining the African- American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future.  The founding director of Columbia University's Institute for Research in African-American Studies and author of 19 b... Read more

20 TRIPP-P 31Aug2020

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2020 at 12:00am - Sat, 08/31/2024 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
In this fourth and final installment of conversations with journalists who are covering the ongoing George Floyd and BLM (Black Lives Matter) protests in Portland, Oregon, throughout the summer of 2020, the TRIPP-P hosts meet up with Freelance Journalist Suzette Smith at Re... Read more

Writers of Color

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Chelsea Ratzlaff about the Washington State University Visiting Writers Series which plans to bring a line-up of writers of color to the university this spring. Image by Writers of Color Read more

S. Renee Mitchell

Airs at: Tue, 01/19/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features S. Renee Mitchell, performer, multimedia artist, former Oregonian columnist  and the winner of the 2019 Spirit of Portland award.  She is the creative force behind the “Spreading the Black Joy Virus," a multimedia intergenerational project intended to incre... Read more

Black Death by Zora Neal Hurston and Lena Horne starring in an episode of Suspense

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/19/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
To top off Martin Luther King Day we present a short story by one of the stars of the Harlem Renaissance, writer and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston. A woman seeks the help of a local "hoodoo man" to get retribution on the man who refuses to take responsibility for impregn... Read more

Black Music Month, 06/03/2010

Airs at: Thu, 06/03/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Co-hosts Emma Jackson Ford and O. B. Hill  discuss favorite books about Black music.  Additionally, they review cultural events, including a Maya Angelou performance infused with a capella song.  O B shares an overview of African American musical history and even breaks int... Read more