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FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A NOVEL, by Sidney Morrison

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
     Author Sidney Morrison joins us to discuss his book, Frederick Douglass:  a Novel, about the man considered the most prominent African American of the 19th century.  Frederick Douglass was instrumental in ending the institution of slavery from which he escaped to becom... Read more

Black Friday at the Hollywood Theatre

Airs at: Thu, 10/31/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guests are Donovan Scribes and Sharon Gary-Smith, they are part of this one-night event featuring film, activism, performance, poetry and history. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 4, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Middle East in Crisis: Laurie Mercier speaks with Juan Ricardo Cole about Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon and the response from the Biden administration and American students on coll... Read more

Who Goes There? with Lady Voltaire on 10/24/24

Airs at: Thu, 10/24/2024 at 3:00am - 5:30am
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The Problems with Polls: Part One

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
If you’re following the polls obsessively, you’re putting your faith in a phenomenon that does more to undermine democracy than enhance it. So argues Samuel Earle in his recent review of a book by G. Elliott Morris, called Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 21, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On this episode, the moles celebrate interspecies solidarity by rebroadcasting an interview with Leigh Claire La Berge about her 2023 book, Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke UP). Cats and Marxism: Should Marxism be rooted in inter-species liberation? Or is it alre... Read more

A conversation with Abby Martin of The Empire Files

Airs at: Wed, 10/16/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
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Tessa Hulls at the Portland Book Festival

Airs at: Thu, 10/10/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Tessa Hulls' debut as an author is the sprawling graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, a story of her own family, of survival and madness and love, seen through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a century of Chinese history. Tessa is an illustrator, pa... Read more

Dian Greenwood, author of Forever Blackbirds

Airs at: Thu, 10/10/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Dian Greenwood, author of the new novel Forever Blackbirds, from Travelers Moon Press. Dian has published essays in the online magazine The Big Smoke, and is a contributor to the anthology 2020: The Year of the Asterisk from University of Hell... Read more

Juan Cole on Gaza in 2014

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  During Israel's 2014 war on Gaza, Laurie Mercier talked with historian and Middle-East specialist Juan Cole about events in Gaza. In this archive presentation, they discuss Israel's motives in launching its attack, and the history of Israel's occupation of Palestine, att... Read more