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Special Report: Presbyterian Assembly Meets in Portland

Airs at: Sat, 06/25/2016 at 12:00am
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The State of Policing in Portland

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2016 at 10:00am - 11:30am
  Host Jo Ann Hardesty features an update on the state of policing in Portland.  Read more

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on Transgender People in the Military and John Pilger on the Brexit Vote

Airs at: Fri, 07/01/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints: We take an in depth look at the recent Brexit vote, with award winning filmmaker and activist, John Pilger. Also, a conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the decision to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military.  Read more

Remembering Stonewall

Airs at: Wed, 06/29/2016 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Each June we rebroadcast the 1989 radio documentary "Remembering Stonewall," by David Isay. This documentary, broadcast on the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, is the first documentary -- in any medium -- about the riots. Hearing the voices of participants, from ... Read more

Report On the Oregon Community Foundation

Airs at: Thu, 06/23/2016 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has released a report on The Oregon Community Foundation, the state's largest charitable foundation. While the report praised its rural approach, it was critical of the foundation’s outreach to Oregon's marginalized communi... Read more

Central Oregon LGBT community celebrates Pride

Airs at: Fri, 06/24/2016 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This Saturday, the central Oregon LGBT community is celebrating pride. The festival has taken on notes of grief and an increased sense of awareness of safety for LGBT Oregonians in the wake of the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Leila Yao of KBOO News, in ... Read more

John Corey Whaley on "Highly Illogical Behavior"

Airs at: Thu, 08/04/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Host Bethany Grabow talks with John Corey Whaley, author of the new book Highly Illogical Behavior. The novel, peppered with Star Trek: The Next Generation references, tells tale of Solomon, a teen with a severe anxiety disorder who hasn’t left the house in over three ye... Read more

Positively Revolting on 06/17/16

Airs at: Fri, 06/17/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Rocked by the heaviness and outrages of the last few weeks, Lyn and Ani make room for a community discussion. The recent mass shooting at an LGBTQ disco during Latin@ night is horrifying.  And as horrifying as it is, it's also really complicated, and deserves a pause for s... Read more

Racist Sandwich

FOOD x RACE x GENDER x CLASS What is it like to be a chef of color cooking in America’s whitest major city? Chef Soleil Ho and journalist Zahir Janmohamed tackle this question and many more in their bi-weekly podcast from Portland, Oregon that examines the intersection b... Read more

Questions about the Orlando Shooter

Airs at: Wed, 06/15/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
  Today on Flashpoints: Why is the Orlando shooter branded as a Muslim instead of a homophobe? Also, Professor Vijay Prashad talks about the confused declarations of support by the shooter: which group did he really support: Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or the Islamic State: could... Read more