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Kelly McWilliams: Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay

Airs at: Thu, 06/01/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the... Read more

Mind Magic

Airs at: Sun, 05/28/2023 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
To help expore the subject of freeing ourselves from negativity and finding self-empowerment is Donna Seebo, an internationally recognized award-winning author, publisher, keynote speaker, renowned mental practitioner, counselor teacher, and radio and television personality... Read more

Zaji Cox, author of Plums for Months: A Memoir of Nature and Neurodivergence

Airs at: Thu, 05/11/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
We're back again in the KBOO studios with guest Zaji Cox, author of the new book Plums for Months: Memories of a wonder-filled, neurodivergent childhood, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Zaji’s been writing fiction since her first short story at the age of nine. She we... Read more

In Depth previews the upcoming Because I Will Not Despair and Beethoven's Ninth concerts

Airs at: Tue, 05/02/2023 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
We’ll be previewing two very special concerts on today’s News In Depth. The first features the World Premiere of Jessica Meyer’s Because I Will Not Despair and the West Coast Premiere of Kareem Roustom’s Hurry to the Light, performed by In Mulieribus, Portland’s acclaimed f... Read more

Music, Drugs, and Harm Reduction

Airs at: Wed, 04/26/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Music, Drugs, and Harm Reduction. We hear from Dr. Jodie Grigg, a Research Associate at the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University in Perth and coordinator of the Western Australia arm of the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting S... Read more

Seventh Generation Thought Now

Airs at: Sat, 04/22/2023 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  Join Ender Black on a special Earth Day episode of Squirrels Know!  We will be discussing the undeniable beauty of Mother Earth, the immense value of all the multiplicity of beings around us, the injustices that are constantly perpetrated and continually allowed by what ... Read more

Demon Copperhead

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In his review of Barbara Kingsolver’s 2022 novel, Demon Copperhead, Book Mole Larry Bowlden notes that Kingsolver displays her genius once again. You need not reread Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield to understand how Kingsolver adapts that tale to modern times, writing m... Read more

The depth of existence is not beyond you

Airs at: Fri, 03/24/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
  Join Ender Black on part 2 of our conversation with a real life, actual "alien". A galactic human. Just for you on this cosmic radio show, only available here on KBOO 90.7FM Portland, and streamed and archived throughout the galaxy on kboo.fm exclusively. This is grassro... Read more

Art Talk Bus Stop with Samantha Wall

Airs at: Wed, 03/22/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Talk Bus Stop
Samantha Wall, originally from Seoul, South Korea, is an artist working in Portland, Oregon. Wall immigrated to the United States as a child and comes from a multiracial background. Operating from within this framework, her drawings embody the experience of navigating trans... Read more

David Hattner previews Portland Youth Philharmonic's Winter Concert 2023

Airs at: Thu, 03/02/2023 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
With record snowfall in Portland last week, winter weather has finally arrived. And just in time for Portland Youth Philharmonic’s annual Winter Concert. Dating back to 1924, PYP is the oldest continuously operating youth orchestra in the country, and their music has helped... Read more