Civil Rights/Human Rights

Madness Radio on 06/28/10

Airs at: Mon, 06/28/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Madness Radio
  Madness Radio: Schizophrenia and Black Politics Jonathan Metzl How did the definition of schizophrenia change during the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s? Why did a disease primarily affecting withdrawn white housewives suddenly become focused on angry and... Read more

damali ayo on "Obamistan!: Land Without Racism"

Airs at: Thu, 05/06/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
Hosts Patricia Welch, Emma Jackson Ford and O.B. Hill interview damali ayo, author, artist, speaker and host. Her books use humor to shed light on American culture and human relations. damali's new book is  Obamistan!: Land without Racism. Read more

Diane Hess and The law, your Rights and Special Activities marking the Fair Housing Council’s 20th Anniversary

Airs at: Wed, 03/31/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving Thousands of Oregonians are denied housing on the basis of race, class and religion every year. If it happens to you – what can you do? Host Lisa Loving and her guest Diane Hess of the Fair Housing Council of Oregon speak about the law, your rights a... Read more

PDX Walk for Water event to aid families in Sub-Saharan Africa

Airs at: Wed, 03/10/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  Host Crystal Leighty interviews Eric Mwarabu, an intern from Tanzania who is working to increase awareness of Walk for Water on Sunday, March 21, 2010. Drawing attention to the plight of millions of people whose access to safe drinking water is severely limited, Walk for... Read more

More Talk Radio on 1/25/10

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Roberto Mangabeira Unger, a leading social and political thinker. Until recently he served as Brazil's Minister for Strategic Affairs in Brazil. He recently returned to teach at Harvard Law School. They discuss his new book, ... Read more

Special Programming: Public Affairs on 11/30/09

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 8:00am - 8:00pm
  WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!! On November 30th, 1999, the streets of Seattle were taken over by a people's revolt, the first of what would be many such uprisings against the secretive economic policies of the World Trade Organization,  Both inside and outside of the Seat... Read more

Vancouver Avenue: Yesterday, Today and Forever

Airs at: Thu, 11/05/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
The hosts focus on "Vancouver Avenue: Yesterday, Today and Forever," a pictorial history of Portland's Vancouver Baptist Church and the community it serves. Read more

Dolores Huerta Speaks at Willamette University

Airs at: Fri, 10/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for Radiozine
Legendary labor organizer Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first Vice-President of the United Farm Workers of America spoke Wednesday, October 21st at The Annual Salem Peace Lecture at Hudson Hall in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.... Read more

Radiozine on 10/23/09

Airs at: Fri, 10/23/2009 at 11:00am - 11:45am
Produced for Radiozine
"Delores Huerta on Immigration Reform and Farmworker Justice," recorded on 10/21/09 at Willamette University Dolores Huerta was co-founder and first Vice-President of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW). In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez formed the National Farm Workers As... Read more

It Takes A Village

The name of the new show, by veteran KBOO programmer, Shaheed Haamid It Takes A Village is from an old African proverb that recognizes the diversity, differences and unity needed to make a community work. It Takes A Village will attempt to examine some of the current politi... Read more