Movement for Racial Justice

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Portland Black Panther Kent Ford

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  The People's Dinner Party: Kent Ford on the Black Panther Party and Palestine       || Host: Suncere Ali Shakur        || ----- "Sting Like A Bee": Kent Ford and the Portland Black Panthers: Portland Black Panthers founding member Kent Ford shares his memories of life ... Read more

Shani Harris Bagwell from Portland Backpack

Airs at: Thu, 02/01/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Lisa's guest is Shani Harris Bagwell from Portland Backpack, which packs and distributes more than 1,200 Portland schoolchildren sack lunches for the weekend. They make sure the kids we see everyday–eat every day. Read more

ShaToyia Bentley, The Ebony Collective

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Lisa's guests are ShaToyia Bentley and her toddler from The Ebony Collective, a Community Development Corporation and Coalition. The Ebony Collective is a culturally-specific nonprofit whose mission is to build power in Oregon’s Black communities by providing workforce/life... Read more

Heaven and Earth

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews James McBride’s 2023 novel,The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, which, he argues, deserves all the wonderful press it has gotten. The love and cooperation between poor Jews and Blacks in a small town in Pennsylvania is the backbone of story, a... Read more

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered by... Read more

Keeping It Real, with Lisa Loving on 01/11/24

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Don't Shoot Portland Founder and Director Teressa Raiford chats about the organization's 10th anniversary of holding a community march on MLK day, plus new work, art gallery shows and how listeners can get involved. Celebrating 10 Years of Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.,... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 15, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
   Patricia Kullberg hosts this MLK Day show, which features the following segments: Identity Politics: Gary Younge is an award-winning author and professor of Sociology at University of Manchester in Great Britain. Younge claims Black, working class, middle class, male, ... Read more

White Supremacy and Teaching about Race

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Earlier this month the authoritarian far right achieved a significant victory in their campaign to eliminate the teaching of anything that contradicts their white supremacist gospel, when they forced the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, a black woman. That res... Read more

¡Huelga! Strike!

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Miracle Theater, Teatro Milagro, opens a play about the life of Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. Norm Diamond talks with Maya Malan-Gonzalez, playwright, about the production and about the tradition of social justice theatre out of wh... Read more

Identity Politics

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
For MLK Day, the Moles take up the politics of identity, race and racism, and how identity politics alone, including the politics of racial identity, is an insufficient response to the moment. Gary Younge is an award-winning author and professor of Sociology at University o... Read more