This edition of the Old Mole Variety Hour is hosted by Denise Morris.  It deals with making energy locally, the racial,  gender and class politics of the Southern plantation household, Alice Munro's latest book, a novel by Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, and a big leftist confab coming up in New York.  ("Variety" is our middle name.)  

 What really went on between black women slaves and their mistresses on the plantations?  Thavolia Glymph, author of the prizewinning book Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about how black women's struggles--before, during, and after the Civil War--shaped the long civil rights movement and can inspire and inform us today in struggles for social justice. 

What's next in the Aaron Campbell case? Also, an interview with Oregon Attorney General John Kroger

• Only 76 of Oregon's 38,553 farms are operated by African-Americans, according to the most recent Census of Agriculture. Why is that? Miriam interviews PSU black studies professor Darryl Millner for some answers. He talks about Oregon's exclusion laws, which barred blacks (including farmers) from settling in the state until well into the 20th century.

• Finally, we chat with John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, about a decades-old, still unsettled discrimination suit against the USDA. The USDA, which could settle the billion-dollar suit soon, is also being sued by Hispanic and female farmers for discriminatory practices. 
• And don't forget to listen to our very varied call in comments from listners across the political spectrum. Keep the conversation going!

Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll take you on an audio tour through the art exhibition: Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to
Now.  Hundreds of posters, photographs, video, and audio representing more than forty years of activism, political protest, and social
 justice campaigns curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, are on display until March 19th at the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s
Feldman Gallery + Project Space, at 1214 NW Johnson in Portland.
Thanks to Alec Dunn, tour guide, Mack McFarland, and Claude Marks.

Audio of the full curators talk:

http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/news/776/multimedia-signs-of-change-curator...

More information about Signs of Change:

Will Aaron Campbell's death finally bring police accountability to Portland?