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Preventing Dating Violence & Sexual Assault @ HBCUs

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Students at several prominent historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), have demanded that school administrators address sexual assault more vigorously. Last year, student protests at Morehouse College, Spelman College, Hampton University, and Howard Universi... Read more

An Evening of Afrotainment Fall 2018 Membership Drive Special

Airs at: Sat, 09/08/2018 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Sean The Bus Driver is going to take you on a journey across the globe and around Portland to bring you music from our expansive music library. This is a very special edition of An Evening of Afrotainment. As we celebrate our 50th year, we continue to bring you volunteer-po... Read more

Sojourner Truth

Airs at: Thu, 09/06/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Today on Sojourner Truth, a one-hour, in-depth discussion about the current state of the environment and how environmental activists are responding. We discuss this within the context of the Trump administration's recent rollbacks on environmental protections, pushing co... Read more

Ilyasah Shabazz: Betty Before X

Airs at: Thu, 09/06/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Call during this broadcast and contribute to KBOO's Fall Membership Drive.  Give to KBOO and get a copy of Betty Before X...a powerful middle-grade fictionalized account of the childhood activism of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's wife, written by their daughter Ilyasah Shaba... Read more

Greg Palast: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  Author of Best Democracy Money Can Buy & Armed Madhouse. New film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, LIVE ON KBOO!  Friday morning call and join the conversation at (503)231-8187 Read more

KairosPDX on KBOO

Airs at: Wed, 08/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  KairosPDX is the only school in Oregon that has shown success in educating African American kids -- now Portland Public Schools is pushing the charter school out of their building even though the district admits it has no immediate plans to use it. Join Lisa Loving and o... Read more

Tribute to Lazy Lester and local selections from the library

Airs at: Sat, 08/25/2018 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Blues Junction
Join Sean The BusDriver and Yorick Jones today on Blues Junction. BusDRiver picked mostly new selections by local artists. YJ pays tribute to the recently passed, Lazy Lester, a pioneer in Louisiana Swamp Blues. Celebration 50 years of non-commercial, volunteer-powered broa... Read more

Worlds Apart | Worlds Reframed: Images & Voices of the Queer Diaspora

Airs at: Tue, 08/28/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
    Worlds Apart | Worlds Reframed: Images & Voices of the Queer Diaspora is an exhibition of photographs, writings, video, and recorded interviews on the experiences of queer displacement. Begun in 2015, this project contrasts how the lives of LGBTQ refugees and asyl... Read more

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America: Darnell Moore

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't ... Read more

Sojourner Truth Radio

Airs at: Thu, 08/23/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Today on Sojourner Truth, we discuss new developments in the court battle surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, the election of Mia Mottley in Barbados and the tragic killing of Frederick Taft, a Black man who was murdered in a Long Beach public park by a white man. On ... Read more