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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  In 2008 the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only twenty-two percent of white people in the United States believe that racism is a major societal problem. On the surface, it may seem to be in decline. However, the evidence of di... Read more

Movie Moles: Not Sorry to Bother You

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken and Frann Michel review and recommend the science fiction comedy film Sorry to Bother You, written and directed by Boots Riley. They discuss code switching and the use of white voice. They note that it fails the Bechdel test and the female character does rese... Read more

"The Best Books I Ever Read," Patricia Heard Hopson

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Patricia Heard Hopson, retired Portland Public Schools librarian discusses favorite books with Emma Jackson Ford.   Read more

Finding Oneself: Victoria Price and Bobby Bluejacket

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Victoria Price, author of Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography, discusses with John Shuck her latest book, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self.  Despite doing “all the right things” to successfully rebuild her life and her finances after a period of de... Read more

Can You See the White? (Part 1)

Airs at: Fri, 08/03/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Valley Views
Faith is a white woman who reflects on personal and societal events that shaped her life’s journey to racial justice and equity awareness.  I asked Faith to be on the show because she and I have had many conversations about race that may be inspiring to listeners.  I admire... Read more

Makani Themba on Russia-Phobia, Police Brutality & the Kidnapping of Immigrant Children

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital Makani Themba on Russia-phobia, police brutality, the kidnapping of immigrant children and the movie 'Sorry to Bother You'...Gerald Horne on the BRICS Summit..Headlines on the Youth Climate March, #RedforFeds federal workers... Read more

Say Her Name! NIA WILSON

Airs at: Thu, 07/26/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Ba... Read more

Red Fawn Fallis and State Sponsored Sexual Assault of a Native woman in North Dakota

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Jacqueline Keeler's Not Your Disappearing Indian podcast is taking over Wednesday Talk Radio this Summer.  Find more episodes on iTunes and Soundcloud. http://tiyospayenow.blogspot.com/2018/07/i-was-born-free-red-fawn-and-state.html Native American journalist Jacqueline... Read more

Mistaken Identity

Airs at: Fri, 07/27/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Valley Views
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Occupy ICE pdx meets Labor Radio

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Occupy ICE PDX activists, Juno Suarez and Jesse Joseph, discuss the encampment at Portland's Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding center at 4310 SW Macadam, now in its second month.  Co-hosts Amanda Hill and Jamie Partridge draw out the connections to working class s... Read more