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Portland Jazz Record Label Showcase continues. Esperanza Spalding, Patrice Rushen headline Portland's Vanport Jazz Festival. Darrell Grant re-releases Truth and Reconciliation on Bandcamp.   Read more

Listen late in the show to "A Few Old Memories," a song by the folk group Della Mae, from their 2021 album Family Reunion.  The show includes other memories from: The Limelighters 1960 - "This Land;" The Brothers Four 1961 - "When the Sun Goes Down;" Harry Belafonte 1956 - ... Read more

This week on Century of Lies: Incarceration and Crime. The Sentencing Project has released a new report entitled “Incarceration & Crime: A Weak Relationship,” which illustrates that less imprisonment often happens alongside improvements to community safety. They held a webi... Read more

From Deep Roots Reggae to 90’s Dancehall & so much more, we’re blending it all together to offer an exclusive 3 hour mix✨ **Live & Direct** Read more

  Here at KBOO, we are celebrating Pride Month and LGBTQIA2S+ Heritage on Tuesdays, 7:00 to 8:00pm, with live panels from our studios, where we will have guests from these communities talk to us about their culture, presence, struggles, and relevance. Calls are welcome, 5... Read more

In June 2024 the Mental Health Association of Portland held its Law & Mental Health Conference with a focus on psychosis. Joanna Naples-Mitchell presented “Why ‘Excited Delirium’ is a Fraud”.  In March 2022, Physicians for Human Rights published a report which she co-author... Read more

In many workplace situations, the issue chooses you.  Management is doing something awful and you feel the need to stop it: too much ovetime, an unfair rule, discrimination.  But maybe there are so many problems where you work, you hardly know where to begin.  You're angry ... Read more

There's a lot happening in our forests in the Northwest, even while our attention may be focused elsewhere (like on the upcoming elections). But now is a good time to check in with Alex Budd, Alliance Organizer with Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, about issues we... Read more