Asian Pacific American

CAUGHT at Artists Repertory Theatre with Director Shawn Lee

Airs at: Tue, 10/10/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Host James Dixon talks with Shawn Lee - the director for Caught which is being produced at Artist's Repertory Theatre. Caught is a show centered around a Chinese dissident artist that combines visual art and live theatre installations. Caught is presented in partnership wit... Read more

Pacific Underground meets Whitenoise Project and GABRIELA Portland!

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Pacific Underground

According to Wikipedia, Filipino-American Heritage Month, has been celebrated since 1988. If it has been around nearly 3 decades, then why don't many people-API-identified or otherwise-- seem to know about it or acknowledge it? This month we're centering Filipinx voices i... Read more

Greg Palast on CROSSCHECK!

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Cecil and Celeste welcome KBOO's favorite muckraking investigative journalist...Greg Palast. Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian and now in Rolling Stone Magazine. (It was Palast who uncovered how ... Read more

An interview with Stacey Tran

Airs at: Fri, 09/22/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Pacific Underground, News and Public Affairs Day

As a part of KBOO's News and Public Affairs Day, Pacific Underground will be interviewing local writer Stacey Tran. She curates Tender Table and her writing can be found in diaCRITICS, The Fanzine, Gramma, and The Volta. Wendy's Subway released her first chapbook, Fake ... Read more

Little Fires Everywhere

Airs at: Thu, 10/12/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, ... Read more

Poetry, Music, and Justice with John Slaughter and Makana

Airs at: Fri, 09/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Beloved Community

My guests today are passionate, engaging, lovers of life and justice. They are both artists. They present their art to transform the world. Makana hails from the isle of O‘ahu, Makana is an internationally acclaimed slack-key guitarist, singer, composer, philosopher, activi... Read more

What is a Just Transition?

Airs at: Thu, 09/07/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

It’s a framework for looking at how environmental and climate justice can address longstanding economic inequality – bringing all movements for justice under a single unified frame. Oregon's Just Transition Assembly happens over Labor Day weekend with over 200 delegates... Read more

Leaving Portland with writer Zahir Janmohamed

Airs at: Fri, 09/01/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Pacific Underground

Portland can be a stressful place to live for people of color. POC who have moved here are often met with a feeling of being unwelcomed that stems from our state's historically racist founding. Writer Zahir Janmohamed's recent piece in the Portland Mercury talks about hi... Read more

Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: Racial Disparity In Kidney Transplants

Airs at: Wed, 08/30/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Intersections Radio

Today Sarika Mehta speaks to Dr. Vanessa Grubbs about her memoir Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers....later in the show Moazzam Sheikh talks about curating the South Asian American Issue of the Chicago Quarterly Review. Vanessa Grubbs - A young, hopeful doctor’s memoir—an u... Read more