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Author Cheryl Waiters on her memoir, "Blood, Sweat, and High Heels"

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Hosts Patricia Welch, O.B. Hill, and Emma Jackson Ford speak with Cheryl Waiters. In her inspiring memoir, "Blood, Sweat, and High Heels," Cheryl Waiters chronicles her struggles and victories as an African American female working to overcome gender and racial biases in the... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 18th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Iven Hale hosts this President's Day episode. Please note that an unforseen glitch in the recording clipped the first 30 or so seconds from the beginning. Once it can be recovered it will be re-inserted. All that was lost was the intro-music and some of Iven's opening rem... Read more

Commentary: Soccer and Society Bigotry - Israeli Style

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Alan Wieder analyzes racism and crypto-apartheid in Israeli soccer as symptomatic of racism in Israeli society directed against Arabs. He takes as his starting point AC Milan player Kevin-Prince Boateng recent gesture of disgust with Israeli fan's racist chants, reverberati... Read more

Hasan Salaam Interview

Airs at: Thu, 02/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Hasan Salaam is a poet, musician and political activist.  Thanks to a strong mom and grandmother, this emcee has a lot more on his mind than beats.  Don Merrill talked with Hasan Salaam as he was touring through the Pacific Northwest, and in advance of a series of presentat... Read more

Kimberly Stowers Moreland , author of "African Americans of Portland, a pictorial history"

Airs at: Thu, 02/07/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Guest Kimberly Stowers Moreland is the author of African Americans of Portland, a pictorial history.  From hundreds of black and white and sepia-toned photos, Moreland pieced together a slice of the local African American narrative, one that reflects how prior to World War ... Read more

"Idle No More" evening news story Part I

Airs at: Thu, 12/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 The “Idle No More” movement for Indigenous rights, sovereignty and environmental justice that has swept across Canada over the past month is taking root in Oregon and Washington as well.   Well over a hundred people participated in a flashmob at Portland’s ... Read more

Hillbilly Nationalists, interview with James Tracy

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
"Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times." Paul Roland interviews James Tracy, co-author with Amy Sonnie of this provocative and timely book about white radical working class groups in the late 1960's. Read more

comments on young white men with guns

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel offers some comments on recent gun violence, with links here. Read more

Civil Rights and Rock 'n' Roll: Radical Musicology with Brad Duncan

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Brad Duncan discuss the shared roots of Rock n Roll and the Civil Rights movement in the deep South and in the mid-to-late 1950s. Segregationists feared the cultural race mixing they saw when Rhythm & Blues broke out of the black community and was rebrande... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Hosted by Denise Morris, this episode covers a wide variety of topics: the current situation in Egypt, an imaginary encounter between Nietzsche and Freud in Vienna, an upcoming workshop on surviving and thriving in oppressive times, and how Studs Terkel dealt with agents ... Read more