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Say Her Name! NIA WILSON

Airs at: Thu, 07/26/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Ba... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Vancouver Mall racist attack

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
On May 11, 2018, Mykel Mosley, a black teen, stepped out of the Vancouver Mall and became angry at a large pickup flying a Donald Trump flag. Mosley yelled out an obscenity about Trump. Then three men jumped out of the truck and chased Mosley, eventually spinning him to the... Read more

Mistaken Identity

Airs at: Fri, 07/27/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Valley Views
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Meet Behind Mars by Renee Simms

Airs at: Thu, 09/06/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "I feel like I can't tell one story about a giant mustard penis because it's not about a mustard penis only, but about all of these incidents together, in context, and through time." So begins the title story in Renee Simms's debut short story collection, Meet Behind Mar... Read more

Air Traffic by Greogory Pardlo

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the fam... Read more

Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  From Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time to Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu, Afrofuturism is gaining popularity. Filmmaker and author Ytasha Womack more defines Afrofuturism as "the intersection between black culture, technology, liberation and the imagination, with some ... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 8: Legal Issues in Ageing

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Retired...or ReWired?
8.  Legal Issues:   Kateri Walsh, Public Affairs, Oregon Bar Assn Key issues:  will, power of attorney, living will. Publication is “Legal Issues for Older Adults.”  Available free on internet.on the Oregon Bar Association site.   Janay Haas, Oregon Bar Assn   Power of... Read more

Renee Simms

Airs at: Thu, 07/05/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  The hosts of Black Book Talk welcome author, lawyer and professor Renee Simms to discuss her new book Meet Behind Mars.  Call (503) 231-8187 to join the conversation and talk about what you've been reading this Summer. Renee Simms is a novelist and lawyer interested in b... Read more

BEYOND STONEWALL: THE PUSH FOR LGBT CIVIL RIGHTS

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We go back to the night in June 1969 at the New York City Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today s show we ll hear about the day that galvanized a generation and the continued fight for LGBT civil rights.  The first Pride parades took place in June ... Read more

Eleven Things that White “Progressives” Say and Do that I Really, Really Hate

Airs at: Fri, 06/29/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Valley Views
Within the US, I’ve lived in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest and the Northwest.  I’ve lived large metropolitan areas and towns with less than 5,000 people.  I try to live in places that are considered to be “progressive” in population and culture.  But sometimes the ... Read more