African American

  Dmae presents Songs of the People:  Indigenous Roots of Black Folk Music is a 28-minute program hosted by Benjamin Mertz, a song leader in the Black Spiritual tradition.  The program will look at pre-20th Century Black music as a folk tradition, exploring its connections... Read more

On today’s show we’ll hear interviews with the owners of two long standing Portland black owned businesses - Dub Travis of Dub’s St John’s and Theotus Cason of Cason’s Fine Meats. First up, we have Chris Siegel’s August 2017 Food Show interview with Chef Dub Travis. Dub ta... Read more

Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and tre... Read more

As part of their ongoing discussing about public health, Jan Haaken and Patricia Kullberg take up the Black Panther’s vision and practice of community-based health care, which the Panthers formulated in the wake of the urban uprisings of the mid-1960’s. By organizing in Afr... Read more