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TRIM CIRCLE

Airs at: Fri, 02/07/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 02/08/2020 at 12:00pm
Produced for:  Plugged In
A femme led conversation about CANNABIS! In 2015, the sale of recreational cannabis was made legal in Oregon. On tonight’s episode LADY DANGER sits down with some RADICAL CANNA QUEEN (Daju, H and Vee.) to discuss their roles within Portland's flourishing Cannabis industry.... Read more

Diversity Inc

Produced for:  Radiozine
Between 2014 and 2016 Google Spet $265 million dollars to diversify their workforce, but their percentage of black employees remains at 2%.  On Feburaary 21st at 10am on Radiozine, Suzanne LaGrande talks to award winning journalist, professor at New York University, and aut... Read more

Diversity Inc. The Failure of a Billion Dollar Business

Airs at: Fri, 02/21/2020 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Between 2014 and 2016 Google spent $265 million dollars to diversify their workforce, but their percentage of black employees remains at 2%. Today on Radiozine, Suzanne LaGrande talks to award-winning journalist, professor at New York University, and author of the recently ... Read more

Diversity Inc. The Failure of a Billion Dollar Business

Airs at: Fri, 02/21/2020 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Between 2014 and 2016 Google Spet $265 million dollars to diversify their workforce, but their percentage of black employees remains at 2%. Today on Radiozine, Suzanne LaGrande talks to award-winning journalist, professor at New York University, and author of the recently p... Read more

Black Labor in the Making of America

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier talks to Joe Trotter about his important book, Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (2020).  Joe William Trotter, Jr., is Professor of History and Social Justice and Founder and Director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies a... Read more

Tribute to Black History Month and Interview with Stacy Cough - Founder of 4 Peaks Music Festival

Airs at: Sat, 02/08/2020 at 12:00pm - 2:00pm
February is Black History Month and Jerry Garcia was influced greatly by musicians that were African American. The first hour will highlight soome the great artists that he and his bands would cover, from Junior Walker, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Cliff, Keeny Gra... Read more

Mental Health and Prisons, with Braunwynn Franklin

Airs at: Wed, 02/05/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Braunwynn Franklin has been a peer specialist and advocate for more than 10 years. She has a heart for social justice change in the prison/justice system and supporting people to gain a better quality of life mentally, spiritually and physically. She has a Bachelors D... Read more

Braunwynn Franklin, Her Journey to Recovery

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Braunwynn Franklin, a Peer Support Specialist with a history of mental illness.  She served 10 years in a Michigan prison where she was mandated to treatment.  When she realized the prison could not provide her with the treatment she felt she ne... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 3, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes:   Black Labor in the Making of America: Laurie Mercier talks to Joe Trotter about his important new book, Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.  Joe William Trotter, Jr., is Professor o... Read more

January 28, 2020: Ten Year Anniversary of Aaron Campbell; and Group in Wyoming Calls for Justice and Police Oversight

Airs at: Tue, 01/28/2020 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
      On this week's show, we hear from the Stop the Violence event held on Saturday, January 25 at Maranatha Church in NE Portland, marking the ten-year anniversary of the police killing of Aaron Campbell. Campbell's death was the latest in a series of police killings t... Read more