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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 23, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 02/23/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    The struggle for labor across the color line has often been credited to white activists. However, as sociologist Cedric de Leon argues, the black labor movement, independently organized outside of the official union movement, propelled such efforts. He discusses t... Read more

Kent Ford: Talking with a Panther

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Selections from a talk by Kent Ford, co-founder of the Portland chapter of the Black Panther Party. Ford helped lead the Panthers’ Free Breakfast for School Children Program in Portland and currently leads Black Panther Legacy Tours in the Albina neighborhood. He is t... Read more

Left and the Law: Monumental Racism

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In honor of Black History Month, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker start their Left & the Law segment with Trump's executive order in early 2025 to rewrite American history. The order directed various departments of the federal government to remove references to slavery an... Read more

Teaching Truth

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Norm Diamond reviews two highly-political books written for a middle-school readership: Silenced Voices by Pablo Leon is a graphic novel on the struggle by indigenous people in Guatemala and their immigrant experience in the U.S. Shift Happens by J. Albert Mann... Read more

Double Groove - Stronger Than Dirt

Airs at: Fri, 02/13/2026 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Double Groove
It's time to celebrate the month of ♡ Love ♡ by showing love and respect to the blues icon, the knuckle coupler between blues and rock n' roll Willie Mae Thornton a.k.a. Big Mama Thornton.  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 16, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: You Are Not American: Laurie Mercier speaks with Amanda Frost, the David Massee Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program at the Un... Read more

You Are Not American

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Amanda Frost, the David Massee Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia School of Law. They discuss how citizenship has always been contested and racialized in the United... Read more

OFK 55 - (Split Episode!) 4AD Records Early Days / Third Tier Thrash Thrillers

Airs at: Sat, 02/07/2026 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Oil For Kisses
I began this month's episode as a 4AD Records deep dive into the highly innovative British post punk/goth/alternative label's early catalog and, at some point, got a strong hankering for second and third tier thrash, death and heavy metal from the 80's and 90's. Not exac... Read more

Book Mole: Thirsty Creek

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Recent history is full of examples of humans messing with nature in order to increase profits, only to cause lasting ecological damage that wasn’t taken into account. The mystery novel Thirsty Creek, by Portland lawyer and writer Jennie Bricker, reviewed by writer and... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 9, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode includes these segments: African-Americans and the Bomb:   When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community h... Read more