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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society

Airs at: Wed, 02/21/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Today, we broadcast our one-hour special with Columbia University Professor of Psychology Carl Hart about his book High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society. Dr. Hart disputes some of our most ... Read more

Crime and Punishment in Black America: James Forman Jr.

Airs at: Tue, 02/20/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Critics of the U.S. criminal justice system such as Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson have assailed the rise of mass incarceration with its disproportionate impact on people of color. The war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American... Read more

City Council Receives Report on Police Deadly Force without Public Testimony

Airs at: Fri, 02/16/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  TRANSCRIPT KBOO: Yesterday, Portland City Council—well, three-fifths of the council—was presented with a report on six police shootings. The report was investigated and written by the OIR Group out of Los Angeles, and included recommendations for increased accountabi... Read more

Family of Quanice Hayes and Supporters Rally Outside East Precinct

Airs at: Tue, 02/13/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    The family of Quanice Hayes recently announced that they will be suing the city of Portland, as well as the police officers involved in shooting Quanice just over a year ago, on February 9, 2017. The Hayes family has also been active at the grassroots level over the... Read more

The Best in Protest Music Part II

Airs at: Fri, 02/16/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  From the Grassroots
 Part II of the  best in Protest Music will be deconstructed and celebrated,  where  we agitate for social change with music and political commentary . We will honor the Protest Music in the  Blues by highlighting the contribution of Josh White , who injured his hand an... Read more

Portland Black Film Festival with David Walker

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome writer and filmmaker David Walker to KBOO.  He's curated movies for the The Portland Black Film Festival which aims to offer diverse perspectives and stories in an art form all too often dominated by white filmmakers. The festival features fi... Read more

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Today we spend the hour with historian, author and activist Gerald Horne and his new critically praised book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. Headlines... Read more

Cole Reed in American Me: The Reclamation of Three Black Artists

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  See the work of Portland artist Cole Reed in the American Me: The Reclamation of Three Black Artists exhibit in the Antoinette Hatfield Hall rotunda through February 2018. American Me features the work of three local African American artists: Cole Reed, Brenna King, ... Read more

Winter Festival Lineup

Airs at: Thu, 02/08/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  As winter drizzles on, there are two golden opportunities this month to get out and see the world without leaving Oregon: the Cascade Festival of African Films and the Portland International Film Festival. Ben Popp has been gathering together regional filmmakers for th... Read more

Celebrating Black Voices in Country Music

Airs at: Sat, 02/03/2018 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Swing 'n' Country
February is Black History Month so here at Swing'n'Country we're celebrating the many contributions African-American musicians have made to country music.  Hear Leadbelly's early country blues, Chuck Berry's rockabilly sounds, and Stoney Edwards' 1970's hit "She's My Roc... Read more