Civil Rights/Human Rights

Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: Web-only special content

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Best-selling author and foreign correspondent Chris Hedges and comics journalist Joe Sacco tell more stories of their collaboration on the book Days of Destuction, Days of Revolt, as well as their adventures reporting from trouble spots both at home and abroad. Original br... Read more

Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Nation Institute Senior Fellow Chris Hedges (American Fascists, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning) and comics journalist Joe Sacco (Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde) have teamed up to produce Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, a sweeping portrait of the American underclass... Read more

Radiozine on 06/15/12

Airs at: Fri, 06/15/2012 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

“Remembering Stonewall”, a documentary produced by David Isay in 1989 to honor the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, an uprising by patrons of a New York gay bar, an event that is often seen as the birth of the gay liberation movement. KBOO broadcasts this documenta... Read more

Our Fathers Who Aren't In Heaven

Airs at: Tue, 02/11/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae presents a Black History Month documentary, Our Fathers Who Aren’t In Heaven, produced by Michael Johnson. This half-hour piece originally aired in 1994 as part of Legacies: Tales From America, a 13-part series of multicultural personal stories produced by Dmae Roberts... Read more

Prison Pipeline on 01/02/12

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2012 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Megan Vosk hosts this evening’s Prison Pipeline. It presents three short pieces produced by students in the media program at Portland Youth Builders. All three pieces provide interesting perspectives on prison life. The first piece talks about how the media portrays the pri... Read more

Project Censored celebrates 35 years as media watchdog

Airs at: Thu, 10/06/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Special Programming: Public Affairs

Theresa Mitchell of Presswatch and Per Fagereng of Fight the Empire co-host a special program with Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips of Project Censored to talk about the release of Censored 2012, which Celebrates 35 Years of Project Censored. In the last 35 years, the so-cal... Read more

Author Carla Peterson, "Black Gotham"

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, ... Read more

Radiozine on 07/15/11

Airs at: Fri, 07/15/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Radiozine

Host Jay Thiemeyer interviews Erinn Goodell of Sisters of the Road about commitment to food justice, including creating partnerships with local food growers and suppliers and addressing food insecurity and/or the increase of people experiencing homelessness and poverty in o... Read more

MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention

Airs at: Mon, 05/16/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Kevin Doughten, an editor at Viking Penguin, about the new book MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable. MALCOLM X was ten years in the making and draws from multiple untapped ... Read more

Radiozine on 06/17/11

Airs at: Fri, 06/17/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Radiozine

Remembering Stonewall KBOO presents our annual broadcast of this radio documentary produced in 1989 by David Isay. On Friday, June 27, 1969, eight officers from the public morals section of the first division New York City Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn, one o... Read more