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Tune in to The Roots of Rock and Roll with DJ Mike Fisher this Friday 3-4pm
on 90.7FM Portland or KBOO.FM for a MARDI GRAS SPECIAL!
With Mardi Gras festivities already started in Louisiana and Fat Tuesday
coming up March 4, Mike will bring you a really fun show with roots m...
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Join Sekoynia Azikiwe for Ear To The Streets of Portland on Thursday February
20 for Black History Month evening with The Fathers Of Funk Music...and
celebrate one of the many foundations that has given so much life to American
music! And help keep KBOO Communit...
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Tune in to Pastures of Plenty for 90 minutes of old and new folk music from
Black American artists in recognition of Black History Month. We will be
featuring Odetta, Leyla McCalla, Rhiannon Giddens, Elizabeth Cotton,
Mississippi John Hurt, Eric Bibb, Nina Simone and many ...
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Celebrating Black History Month, ADN presents a tribute to the Association
for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) the famous Chicago
organization. Featuring percussionist Kahil el’Zabar and the Ethnic
Heritage Ensemble, Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, the ...
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast
from Against the Grain.
Black parents worry about racism’s impact on their children. Jennifer C.
Nash is interested in both the nature of racialized anxiety and the way
it’s rendered visible to t...
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This is the 35th year of the Cascade Festival of African Films hosted by
Portland Community College with screenings and discussions scheduled Thursday
through Saturday throughout the month of February. Jan Haaken talks with
the internationally acclaimed Senegalese filmm...
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Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode features segments on African films, on
public schools in the the making of Black masculinity, and more.
On the Legacy of PATCO 1981
In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's
racist response, Frann Mi...
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The ACLU of Oregon, in partnership with Don’t Shoot PDX, an arts and
education organization that promotes social justice and civic participation,
have submitted three public records requests to the City of Portland, the
Oregon Department of Justice (ODOJ), and the Federa...
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The Nation of Islam was an important part of Black culture in the 1960's. It
brought about social, educational, and economic change for the community.
Yugen took time at the end of The Motif enjoyed an hour a recovering and
re-examining an too-oft-neglected part of Port...
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Frann Michel recommends the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, directed
by Belgian media artist Johan Grimonprez, and available streaming through
kanopy via the Multnomah County Library.
The film opens with, and returns to, the moment in February 1961 when singer
...
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