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Urban Nature Partners and Maxville Interpretive Center

Airs at: Wed, 04/10/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
For the 2019 Spring Drive, Radiozine host Jenna sits down with two organizations that are bringing the outdoors to urban dwellers. First, Urban Nature Partners talks about their mentoring program that aims to take underrepresented youth into the outdoors.  Visit and learn m... Read more

Magical Negro

Airs at: Thu, 05/30/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Magical Negro is unsettlingly new: a book that incisively explores states of black womanhood with astonishing buoyancy and grief. I can’t stop thinking about the songs it sings, songs that feel inevitable and yet unvoiced, complex and yet urgent; poems that are steeped ... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Kendall Duffie, Portland Veteran's Project

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Our In Depth guest today is Kendall Duffie, a high school senior in Portland,  and creator of the Portland Veteran’s Project. The Portland Veteran’s Project is a website dedicated to the stories of Portland’s military veterans, as told by those who served in World War 2, u... Read more

The Long Honduran Night

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier talks to Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at University of California Santa Cruz, and author of many books, including the recent The Long Honduran Night: Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup. They discuss the US role... Read more

Indigenous Space and Decolonizing Prison Abolition

Airs at: Mon, 03/25/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 03/29/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
Indigenous Space and Decolonizing Prison Abolition (Sean Swain starts at 05min, 12 sec) Ni Frontiers Ni Prison (starts 12min, 08sec) Today we have a two part show! In the first part we are presenting a conversation with someone from Ni Frontiers Ni Prison, which is a grou... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 26

Airs at: Wed, 04/03/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The Politics of Living
All feedback, comments and suggestions can be emailed to: TPOL@KBOO.ORG The Politics of Living show is currently looking for contributors and guests. For more information, please email: TPOL@KBOO.ORG Hosted by: Vicky Mazzone   Content Contributors Dennise M. Kowalczyk - ... Read more

Raising Cane

Airs at: Tue, 05/26/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Stage & Studio presents a special documentary from the "Crossing East" Asian Pacific American history series, winner of the 2006 Peabody award. This is excerpted from the "Raising Cane" segment by Robynn Takayama and Dmae Roberts with help from Jenny Dunn. For more info ... Read more

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

Airs at: Fri, 03/29/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Today on Between the Covers, Suzanne LaGrande interviews science writer, lecturer and author Thomas Hager, discussing his newly published book, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine   Behind every landmark drug is a story. It coul... Read more

Labor Radio on 03/18/19 - The #NewEraHatsOff Campaign

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
  Is America's Pastime Crushing Labor Unions? Host Michael Cathcart tells the story of the fight to halt New Era Cap Company's plan to shutter their long-standing unionized factory in upstate New York in order to shift production of Major League Baseball (MLB) hats to a n... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Debra Gwartney

Airs at: Thu, 03/14/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Our In Depth guest today is Debra Gwartney, author of the new memoir I Am a Stranger Here Myself, from University of New Mexico Press. Debra teaches in the writing program at Pacific University in Forest Grove, and is the author of Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Ru... Read more