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Women of Color Navigating Motherhood: Celeste Ng & Shanthi Sekaran

Airs at: Wed, 11/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Sarika Mehta talks to two powerful writers about the intersections of parenting, gender and race.  Both Celeste Ng and Shanthi Sekaran write about the weight and potential of motherhood. Celeste Ng was a recipient of a Pushcart Prize in 2012 for her story Girls, At Pla... Read more

Fantastic Negrito and The Last Days of Oakland

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  In the last three years, Fantastic Negrito, an Oakland-based black roots revivalist has gone from busking at bus stops to winning a Grammy and touring internationally. Hes done this by creating a unique sound -- melodic hooks, primal blues-rock chords, clever lyricism, a... Read more

Hello Vancouver! with Susan Armitage

Airs at: Thu, 11/30/2017 at 12:30pm - Fri, 11/30/2018 at 3:00pm
Produced for:  Hello Vancouver
Host Temple Lentz speaks with Susan Armitage, author of "Shaping the Public Good: Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest." Armitage is Professor Emerita at Washington State University, and this book was a 2017 runner-up for the Oregon Book Award. Original air date: T... Read more

The Pentagon, Hollywood, Climate Change, and An Appeal for Democracy

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Professor of Philosophy at Columbia, Phillip Kitcher, talks with host John Shuck about how if human beings hope to survive the looming climate catastrophes, we will need to talk it out, one to one, in families, neighborhoods, and social gatherings. The power of grassroot... Read more

Dennis Banks & Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  Dennis Banks left on his final Journey Dennis Banks is remembered for having organized, with AIM in a coalition of 8 indigenous nations, the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties. They converged on Washington, DC, with 500 followers to protest Indian living conditions and lost t... Read more

First Voices Radio: Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
  In the first half-hour of this special repeat edition of First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Corine Fairbanks. Corine, who is Oglala Lakota, is Director for the American Indian Movement, Southern California. She has been working in the social justice ... Read more

Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium: Winona LaDuke

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  In her 1998 Mario Savio Free Speech lecture, "Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium," LaDuke explores the conflict between indigenous people who live on the land and urbanized industrial society - that is, cyclical versus linear ideas of the world, and their results. ... Read more

#NotYourMascot

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Voices From The Edge presents Jacqueline Keeler's Not Your Disappearing Indian...a new podcast about all the ways Native people are not going away and how America's got us all wrong.  On this episode you'll hear the sounds from a protest of the NFL during a game between ... Read more

Deportations, Ice raids, DACA & Oregon's Drivers Licencing

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Andrea Williams, the Executive Director of Causa....Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization founded in 1995 by farmworkers, Latinos, immigrants, and allies in order to defeat ballot measures that would have negatively impacted the lives of L... Read more

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr to KBOO.  Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Rese... Read more