The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 22, 2016

Produced by:

KBOO

Program::

Old Mole Variety Hour

Air date:

Mon, 02/22/2016 - 12:00am

Curbing climate change, african film festival, mass incarceration critic for supreme court, beyonce

Denise Morris hosts this show, largely about the struggle and culture of Africans and African Americans, and we hear:

Bill Resnick talks with Frank Ackerman on the costs of curbing climate change to manageable levels v. the costs of continuing on the current path.
Jan Haaken interviews Tracy Francis, Coordinator of the Cascade Festival of African Films (at PCC, free and open to the public).
Denise Morris considers the likelihood that Michelle Alexander, noted scholar of mass incarceration, could be our next Supreme Court Justice.
Jan Haaken and Denise Morris unpack the controversy surrounding Beyonce's new song and music video, Superbowl halftime show performance of it, and the politics of race in popular music.

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