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Breaking News...

Airs at: Sun, 05/28/2017 at 5:45pm - Sun, 06/04/2017 at 5:45pm
Produced for This Is How We See It
Peter Thomas and Matt Jordan from Atlanta Housewives come to blows at a Charlotte Radio Station.  Shemar Moore has new show on CBS this Fall.  Matthew Knowles gives interview about his relationship with daughter Beyonce.  Steve Harvey's letter to his staff and the contro... Read more

Good With People + Relations Preview

Airs at: Tue, 05/30/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Stage and Studio
  Dmae welcomes Devon Allen, co-artistic director of Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab. She and co-producer Matt DiBiasio are performing a two-person play. In David Harrower's Good With People a woman encounters the man who bullied her son 14 years earlier when they... Read more

Portland History on Film

Airs at: Thu, 05/25/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Film Show
  The Vanport Mosaic Festival is honoring the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the City of Vanport with historic exhibits, theater, and documentaries.  Jenn Chavez talks with Laura Lo Forti about the film project Lost City, Living Memories: Vanport Through the V... Read more

The Grateful Dead Covering Black Artists Part 5

Airs at: Sat, 05/27/2017 at 12:00pm - 2:00pm
  Five years ago, I launched this themed series of broadcasts during a membership drive in Black History Month. The Grateful Dead covered scores of songs written and/or performed by dozens of well-known and obscure black artists. These broadcasts feature the song as ori... Read more

Hot Topics

Airs at: Sun, 05/21/2017 at 8:00pm - Sun, 05/28/2017 at 5:00pm
Produced for This Is How We See It
Trumps executive order allowing churches to endorse political candidates, good or bad?  Toni Braxton says if you're not prepared to leave your cheating husband, then don't confront him about the other woman!  Lil Wayne's daughter is attacked at Clark Atlanta University. ... Read more

Conversation with OPAL Organizers about Gentrification, Transportation, and Environmental Justice

Airs at: Thu, 05/18/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for Evening News
"Nothing about us with out us!" That is a statement that began as a grass roots chant for equity. KBOO reporter Jasmine Moneymaker spoke with Hyung Nam, Executive Director of Opal PDX and Shawn Fleek, Community Engagement Director of Opal PDX about what the chant means,... Read more

Greg Palast Returns

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
  Reports claim black voter turnout fell for first time in 20 years. But it’s not that black voters are too lazy to come out to vote, it’s that they’re trying to vote and their names have disappeared from voter rolls. Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted t... Read more

Artist Hank Willis-Thomas

Airs at: Fri, 05/19/2017 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist who creates work focused on themes of identity, race, media and popular culture. He recently spoke at Oregon State University, and KBOO was there. Today we bring you that talk in its entirety. Read more

Love & Justice: Cornel West

Airs at: Fri, 05/19/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
  From Tamir Rice to Akai Gurley the names of African American men and boys killed by police keep piling up. The lack of a grand jury indictment in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson sparked a protest movement with signs and shouts of “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot” and “Black... Read more

Police Scientist: Michael A. Wood Jr.

Airs at: Fri, 05/19/2017 at 10:00am - 11:30am
  In 2015, former Baltimore Policeman Michael A. Wood Jr. took to Twitter to publicly blow the whistle on the corruption and abuse that he witnessed during his career. "Jacking up and illegally searching thousands of people with no legal justification" "Placing people... Read more