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Old Mole Variety Hour August 21st, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode of the Old Mole is Hosted by Denise Morris Dreams of Liberation. This morning on The Old Mole we rebroadcast CS Soong interviewing historian Robin D.G Kelley on Against the Grain. Against the Grain is a weekly radio show hosted by Sasha Lilly and C.S Soong o... Read more

Jason Renaud and Dr Rochelle Silver from the Mental Health Alliance

Airs at: Thu, 08/17/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Jason Renaud and Dr Rochelle Silver from the Mental Health Alliance talk about the City of Portland's settlement hearing with the USDOJ on pattern and practice of violent interactions with people in mental health crisis. Read more

Pomegranate

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews Pomegranate, by Helen Elaine Lee, a rich book on so many levels. Written though the eyes of Ranita Atwater, a woman just released from four years of imprisonment for opioid possession, the book leaps forward to her assiduous efforts to regain parental ... Read more

Jerry Foster of Passinart Theatre Company

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Passinart's most ambitious event of the year, the Pacific Northwest Multi-Cultural Readers Series & Film Festival, is sure to bring new talents to the stage and screen. Check them out! Read more

Kent Ford and the "The Portland Black Panthers"

Airs at: Thu, 08/03/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Portland is  widely regarded as a liberal bastion, and yet the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” Longstanding racial tensions led to the formation of a local branch of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s.  Based in the city’s Albina Distric... Read more

In Memoriam, Palesa Clementina Mofana Kendall Mofokeng

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers revisits an earlier segment on the life and 2021 death from Covid of Palesa Mofokeng, adopted daughter of playwright, actor, and Portland street photographer Kendall. Given the choice of a life of relative privilege in the U.S., and serving as an LPN and a... Read more

Interview with Penny Hess

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Please join us on Monday, July 24th at 6:30 pm for Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio as we talk with Penny Hess.  Penny Hess is the chairperson of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, an organization of white people organizing in solidarity with the movement for... Read more

Black American Music

Airs at: Sun, 07/23/2023 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
  As with the phrase “Black Lives Matter,” this simple statement of fact interjects clarity and controversy into conversations about improvisational music. For many it’s a righteous claim to the world-class contributions Black Americans have made towards every major musica... Read more

Fresh Out Community Based Re-Entry Program

Airs at: Thu, 07/20/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Host Karen James speaks with Larry Turner, co-founder of Fresh Out Community Based Re-Entry Program, and Wilford Johnson, Fresh Out alumni and peer mentor. Individuals who release from prison often return to underserved communities and face many barriers that make succes... Read more

Mic Crenshaw, LIVE in station

Airs at: Wed, 07/19/2023 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Tonight, live in the airroom --- Every Third Wednesday of the Month, 7pm PST --- with Mic Crenshaw ---   miccrenshaw.com ---           Read more