Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist who creates work focused on
themes of identity, race, media and popular culture.
He recently spoke at Oregon State University, and KBOO was there. Today we
bring you that talk in its entirety.
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Daniel McGowan is a former member of the Earth Liberation Front, who was
convicted of the arsons of two Oregon-based lumber companies in 2001.
The FBI eventually closed the loop on McGowan’s case during “Operation
Backfire,” an investigation that the bureau described as a c...
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Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national,
daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public
television and radio stations worldwide. This is a talk she gave in
Beaverton, Oregon on May 13, 2017.
The Nieman Foun...
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From Tamir Rice to Akai Gurley the names of African American men and boys
killed by police keep piling up. The lack of a grand jury indictment in the
Michael Brown case in Ferguson sparked a protest movement with signs and
shouts of “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot” and “Black Li...
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In 2015, former Baltimore Policeman Michael A. Wood Jr. took to Twitter to
publicly blow the whistle on the corruption and abuse that he witnessed
during his career.
"Jacking up and illegally searching thousands of people with no legal
justification"
"Placing people in...
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