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Evening News on 09/23/20

Airs at: Wed, 09/23/2020 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On this special Membership Drive edition of the KBOO Evening News: Proud Boys, the hate group planning a rally in Portland this Saturday, runs into permitting difficulties; President Trump issued an executive order yesterday on combatting race and sex stereotyping; And... Read more

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sharon Grant reads from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Letter from the Birmingham Jail and how it speaks to the uprisings of the Black Lives Matter movement. Grant is a community health educator in Portland. Read more

Police Reform

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Seemab Hussaini with the Council on American Islamic Relations and Brown Hope about the work of the Portland police reform network. They discuss why police reform is so important and what is necessary for it to happen as today is perhaps the best cha... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 21, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes: Police Reform: Bill Resnick talks with Seemab Hussaini with the Council on American Islamic Relations and Brown Hope about the work of the Portland police reform network. They discuss why police reform is s... Read more

Evening News on 09/16/20

Airs at: Wed, 09/16/2020 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On this special Membership Drive edition of the KBOO Evening News: Fires and smoke continue to overwhelm much of the state; More evidence emerges that ICE facilities are performing hysterectomies on unsuspecting women; And, President Trump touts herd immunity, while say... Read more

Irresistible Revolution

Make no mistake: what we are experiencing is nothing less than a revolutionary moment. Today, the Black Lives Matter movement, which started in 2013 and builds upon centuries of Black liberation work, is the biggest uprising since the 1960s' Civil Rights Movement. Across t... Read more

Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty on reducing police terror

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2020 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  "[It] depends on that officer's perception of the call that they're on. I also know that ... community members have been trained to make the calls sound as scary as possible to get a quicker police response." Before Jo Ann Hardesty was a Portland City Commissioner, she s... Read more

Street Journalism

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers interviews Lisa Loving about her street journalism training for covering protests and more. She is the author of Street Journlism: Understand and Report the News in Your Community. Read more

Second Wednesday, with co-host Jacqueline Keeler

Airs at: Wed, 09/09/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
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Racism—A Public Health Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg speaks with Leslie Gregory, a local health practitioner and activist who is at the forefront of the campaign to get racism declared a public health crisis. Gregory is the founder and director of the local non-profit Right to Health, whose vision is to to c... Read more