Dmae Roberts

  Dmae Roberts presents "Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks" Dmae Roberts presents and encore edition of the half-hour version of Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks, originally a one-hour radio documentary that interweaves oral history interviews, Alutiiq mus... Read more

  Born to enslaved parents on a Mississippi plantation during the Civil War, Ida B. Wells emerged as a powerful investigative journalist. She overcame death threats and published widely in her quest to document the domestic terrorism against Black Americans that came to... Read more

​As part of National Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, Stage and Studio presents a half-hour adaptation of The Breast Cancer Monologues. Originally produced in 2003 as a one-hour documentary collage with and about Breast Cancer Survivors produced by Dmae Roberts ... Read more

  Dmae focuses on MATTER, written and performed by Charles Grant as a response to police brutality and gun violence inflicted on Black Americans. We hear clips from the film and excerpts of a Zoom conversation with Charles Grant, director James Dixon, filmmaker Tamera L... Read more

  Dmae presents Songs of the People:  Indigenous Roots of Black Folk Music is a 28-minute program hosted by Benjamin Mertz, a song leader in the Black Spiritual tradition.  The program will look at pre-20th Century Black music as a folk tradition, exploring its connecti... Read more

  Dmae talks with Portland's First Lady of Blues, LaRhonda Steele. We hear her talk about the struggles as a Black woman in Portland's Blues scene. It's tough times for Portland's musicians who depend on live performance for a living, and even tougher for Black artists ... Read more

  Dmae features longtime Portland musician and composer Gerardo Calderon  who performs both traditional Mexican music and Pre-Columbian Indigenous music. He's part of a two-night live stream called Dreams Deferred Live by a collective called The Immigrant Story. The fir... Read more

  Dmae features continues conversations about anti-racism in the arts with an in-depth talk with Chip Miller, the newly appointed associate artistic director of Portland Center Stage at the Armory.  Chip originally joined PCS in the spring of 2019, in the role of associ... Read more

  Dmae presents a piece from one of the first personal storytelling series on public radio: Legacies: Tales From America that ran on NPR in 1994. This episode is a 28-minute docu-play Because of You, I Learned to Love  produced by Nora Moreno Cargie.  In this personal p... Read more

  Dmae talks to Horatio Hung-Yan Law about creating art in solitude and while walking. Horatio is long-time Portland-based artist who has created large installations and public artwork in many locations here but also in other parts of the country. Lately he's been taki... Read more