African American

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The EVOLVE Experience

Airs at: Tue, 05/14/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents an encore broadcast of an interview with Kevin Jones, artistic director of The August Wilson Red Door Project which is presenting a new production called The EVOLVE Experience. This work combines gripping and timely monologues from of Hands Up about racial ... Read more

Survival Math - Mitchell S. Jackson

Airs at: Thu, 05/02/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
 Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell S Jackson and his family made to keep safe—to stay alive—in their community, a small black Portland neighborhood blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect. Mitchell explores the Portland of h... Read more

2 WoC directors

Airs at: Tue, 04/30/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae talked with two directors opening plays soon. We'll hear from Rebecca Martinez who's directing Wolf at the Door at Milagro Theatre (May 2 – 25) and Lava Alapai director of The Revolutionists at Artists Repertory Theatre. While it's more common for female directors of c... Read more

Portland poet Nastashia Minto, author of "Naked"; and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Nastashia Minto, author of the new poetry collection, 'Naked': I never truly understood the beauty of another being until I began to find and love myself. Minto is a Georgia-born African American woman living and working in Portland. Reema Zaman call... Read more

It Takes A Village To Empower Each Other ft. Tessa May

Airs at: Sat, 04/13/2019 at 12:00am - Tue, 04/30/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
This week, we're talking about Beyoncé, the complications of being humans, and the impact that Nipsey had, all from our own perspectives, as always. Our beautiful guest is the one and only @tessamay22 who is bringing all of the light and good energy into the studio!! She le... Read more

Urban Nature Partners and Maxville Interpretive Center

Airs at: Wed, 04/10/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
For the 2019 Spring Drive, Radiozine host Jenna sits down with two organizations that are bringing the outdoors to urban dwellers. First, Urban Nature Partners talks about their mentoring program that aims to take underrepresented youth into the outdoors.  Visit and learn m... Read more

Magical Negro

Airs at: Thu, 05/30/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Magical Negro is unsettlingly new: a book that incisively explores states of black womanhood with astonishing buoyancy and grief. I can’t stop thinking about the songs it sings, songs that feel inevitable and yet unvoiced, complex and yet urgent; poems that are steeped ... Read more

What We're Reading Now

Airs at: Thu, 04/04/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Black Book Talk co-hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O. B. Hill and Patricia Welch discuss what's on their bookshelves this month.  Listeners are invited to call-in (503-231-8187) and share their current reads. Read more

It Takes A Village To Be Un-Tethered

Airs at: Tue, 04/02/2019 at 12:00am - Tue, 04/30/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
This is a special episode because it’s just US... ᴼⁿᶜᵉ ᵘᵖᵒⁿ ᵃ ᵗᶦᵐᵉ, ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍᶦʳˡ We’re talking about Jordan Peele and Lupita Nyong’o’s blinding talents, the one downfall to Beyoncé, and PLANET EARTH!!!! Tune in, have a laugh, think a thot, and remember #ittakesavillage   Read more

Crossing Mnisose & The No Play

Airs at: Tue, 04/02/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features playwright, activist, and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee Nation) and her world premiere play Portland Center Stage's Crossing Mnisose opening April 13th which weaves the story of  Sacajawea (also known by the Hidatsa pronunciation of "Sacagawea") juxtap... Read more