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Airs at: Sun, 08/20/2017 at 6:15pm - Sun, 08/27/2017 at 6:15pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
Chance the Rapper's bodyguard arrested for assaulting fan.  Restaurant in Brooklyn, NY says Kendall Jenner doesn't tip?  Are you the type of person who requires your significant other to sever all ties with their ex’s?  Why you should NEVER go commando. Read more

Voices from Charlottesville: Church Under Siege by White Supremacists

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  For this hour we go to Charlottesville, Va. and hear voices, including that of author and activist Cornel West and the Rev. Tracy Blackmon, who participated in a mass prayer service at St. Pauls Memorial Church on Friday, August 11, in advance of the deadly rally of whit... Read more

Don't Shoot PDX on KBOO

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome Teressa Raiford from Don't Shoot PDX to discuss Mayor Wheeler's newly hired police chief, Danielle Outlaw.  What changes will she bring to the leadership role of the Portland Police Bureau?   Read more

Sojourner Truth: Did the Civil War ever end?

Airs at: Fri, 08/18/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Trump gives overt support for white supremacist organizations as they let the world know they are no longer hiding under sheets as in the days of the Ku Klux Klan. On Friday, August 11, they descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting "blood and soil," a slogan from... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 4

Airs at: Wed, 08/16/2017 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Combined Culture Radio
Trump's America, Charlottesville, Black Journalist, and F.U.B.U.  Read more

QTPOC Talk on 08/15/17

Airs at: Tue, 08/15/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  QTPOC Talk
     Hosts Darion Jones and Zeloszelos Marchandt talk about the state of the American Nation, purity themes in QTPOC land, privililedge in and outside communities of color and the "Mimosa Effect" in white culture. Activist and Journalist Cameron Whitten joins the studio fr... Read more

Movie Moles: Detroit

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Jan Haaken review Kathryn Bigelow's "Detroit", which dramatizes events surrounding the 1967 12th Street Rebellion in Detroit. The consider what the film has to say about black life, black political movements, and the origins of social unrest. They also con... Read more

Support Black Owned Restaurants Week and What She Ate

Airs at: Wed, 08/16/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
On this episode, I'll be talking with chef Dub Travis, owner of Dub's St. Johns. This coming week is Support Black-Owned Restaurants Week 2017. Dub will talk about his experience running a restaurant and  ways we can support other black owned restaurants around Portland. I... Read more

WHITE PRIVILEGE: Michael Eric Dyson

Airs at: Tue, 08/15/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  White privilege. What’s that? Some people have choices and advantages simply because of the color of their skin. Many whites are unaware of it or if they are are quick to say, Hey, I’m cool and beyond that. Yeah, right. Peggy McIntosh, a noted women’s studies scholar in ... Read more

Members of Congress Call Out Nazis and Other Violent Right-wing Extremists

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Numerous members of Congress and other officials joined in condemning Saturday’s racist attack and in calling out Nazis and other violent rightwing extremists.  Many also expressed their disappointment and even outrage at the slow, lackluster response from the current presi... Read more