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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 16, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: You Are Not American: Laurie Mercier speaks with Amanda Frost, the David Massee Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program at the Unive... Read more

You Are Not American

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier speaks with Amanda Frost, the David Massee Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia School of Law. They discuss how citizenship has always been contested and racialized in the United... Read more

Public Health, Politics, and Protest: A Roundtable Discussion

Airs at: Sat, 02/21/2026 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

At 4pm, we welcome four amazing contributors to Portland, Oregon, and Multnomah County, civic and community life. They will tackle the prevailing turbulent discourse, and narrative: Immigration and Federal ICE Agents; the impact, the chaos, and a runway towards re... Read more

Everybody Reads 2026

Airs at: Thu, 02/05/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Everybody Reads 2026 celebrates Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s book, Lovely One. In addition to distributing 8,000 free copies of Lovely One through libraries and high schools, the library also offers a series of events related to the program. All are free to the pu... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 9, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode includes these segments: African-Americans and the Bomb: When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community h... Read more

African-Americans and the Bomb

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community had no history of protest against the bomb. That, he quickly discovered, was completely false. The ... Read more

Media and art we like

Airs at: Fri, 01/30/2026 at 10:00am - 10:30am

Produced for: Radiozine

First, Clark talks about different styles of dances. Then, Kiyan describes his favorite and least favorite characters in Superman. Finally, Em discusses why the TV show Stranger Things is meaningful to her. Read more

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 19, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The Reverend Martin Luther King once said: "We may have all come on different ships, but now we're in the same boat." Were he alive, MLK would have been the first to condemn the state terror campaign currently inflicted on our immigrant communities. Surely he would ha... Read more