Special Programming: Public Affairs

For KBOO's Fall Membership Drive, we're getting meta by interviewing KBOO's own Don Merrill talks about his book PLEDGE: The Public Radio Fund Drive. Tune in for a fundraising conversation about fundraising.    PLEDGE examines the fund drive and the public radio universe su... Read more

  Tune in on July 24 from 8a-6p for our annual broadcast of the Homelessness Marathon. Call in to the marathon at 877-NOBODY-8 (877-662-6398)     The Homelessness Marathon is a unique radio program that gives homeless people and their allies a chance to speak with the... Read more

On Friday June 14th the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry hosted Pride at the museum, a celebration of the LGBTQplus community with a night of pride inspired science demos ,geust scientists, aerial dancers, drag performances and more. KBOO  was there, supporting the Sto... Read more

  KBOO presents our annual broadcast of "Remembering Stonewall," which aired first on the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1989. On Friday, June 27, 1969, eight officers from the public morals section of the first division New York City Police Department pulled u... Read more

  This week, The Final Straw Radio is sharing two interviews. First up, Bursts spoke with glo merriweather and jamie marsicano, two supporters of Rayquan Borum, a young black man accused by Charlotte PD of killing Justin Carr, another protester out during the Charlotte Upr... Read more