Cecil and Celeste welcome your calls. This program is open to local, national and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland to politics in Africa.
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Tanner Colby, author of
"SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE BLACK: The Strange Story of Integration in
America," one white man’s unflinching exploration of Jim Crow’s legacy
and what it will take to see that legacy undone.
In sp...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Peter Edelman, author of the
new book So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America. The
income-level disparity in this country is now wider than at any point since
the Great Depression. How can some be so r...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Beth Richie, Director of the
Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Professor of African
American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of
Illinois at Chicago. Her new book is Arrested Justi...
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Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey interview professor Dan Simon about his
book In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process. Simon is
Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of Southern California.
The criminal justice process is unavoidably huma...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Brentin Mock, Investigative
Reporter who covers the challenges presented by new voter ID laws,
suppression of voter registration drives, and other attempts to limit
electoral power of people of color. They'll talk about his...
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Host Cecil Prescod interviews Noah Dundas and Brian Crosby-Payne about a
grass roots effort to save the only warm water therapy pool in the Portland
area.
In 1992 Dorothy Torgler, a foundational pillar for Providence Hospital,
through a charitable contribution, made p...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview former Portlander Anthony
Swofford, author of Jarhead, a memoir of his time in the marines. They'll
discuss his new book Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir, a journey of
despair and redemption chronicling the years afte...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Charles Shaw about his new
book Exile Nation.
Charles Shaw is an award-winning journalist and editor, author of the memoir,
Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality (2012,
Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press), and D...
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Hosts Cecil and Celeste interview Reverand Lennox Yearwood Jr., CEO of The
Hip Hop Caucus
Over the past three years the Hip Hop Caucus has been successfully bridging
the gap between our communities and the green movement. One Planet. One
Voice. is our new global green ...
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Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Daniel Medwed, author of
"Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the
Innocent."
American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice
system: they are supposed to be minist...
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