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Movie Moles: Dear White People

Airs at: Mon, 11/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss Dear White People, an independent first feature written and directed by Justin Simien; funded in part via Indiegogo, it has been a big hit at Sundance and with critics. It's currently playing in Portland at Cinema 21. De... Read more

News In Depth

  Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5:30pm to 6:00pm. A deeper look behind the day's top stories KBOO News In Depth is a daily in-depth interview or feature on a story of significant interest to our listening audience.  These pieces focus on local, na... Read more

KBOO speaks with friends of 14-year old Orwa Hammad,killed by Israeli forces

Airs at: Fri, 10/31/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The recent escalation in Jerusalem follows the  killing of a fourteen year old boy, Orwa Hammad, by Israeli forces in the West Bank. Orwa was a Palestinian-American who grew up spending time in both New Orleans and the West Bank.  KBOO spoke with two of Orwa’s friends in... Read more

Arresting Power - A Documentary Film about Police violence and resistance in Portland OR

Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon uses archival materials, documentary footage and interviews with community members, activists and organizers to uncover Portland’s unique history of policing and race relations, emphasizing its rich history o... Read more

Hands up don't shoot action - Portland Oct. 22

Airs at: Fri, 10/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Several dozen Portlanders gathered Wednesday night in outer southeast Portland for a protest march in solidarity with the people of Ferguson Missouri. Yesterday, October 22nd, marked a national day of action to end police brutality. In Portland, protesters walked aro... Read more

Left and the Law: racism, perceptions of crime, and the punitive state

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss a recent research report by The Sentencing Project, titled "Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Polices."  The report describes how deeply embedded racism is in ... Read more

Dispatches Against Displacement: understanding and resisting gentrification

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with James Tracy, author of "Dispatches Against Displacement: field notes from San Francisco's housing war". They consider what gentrification is as an economic and by extension racialized form of domination, how different cities experience gentrificati... Read more

Well-read Red: Gentrification, Class Domination, and Racism

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an essay by Gavin Mueller in Jacobin, as well as from other sources, to argue that gentrification is not simply a cultural change in a neighborhood, but instead is driven by economic forces and backed by state power.   But those forces can be coll... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 13, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode about public health and our vulnerability to epidemics like Ebola, gentrification as colonialist legacy, and racial perceptions of crime. Musical selections from Hazel Dickens, Leon Rosselson, James Talley, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. B... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: J California Cooper

Airs at: Thu, 02/02/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Described by the Los Angeles Times as "a voice for the struggles of Black women in novels and short stories prized for their folksy wisdom and original voices," J. California Cooper died last week at 82 years old. The Times continued with a quote from Pulitzer Prize-winn... Read more