History

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Heaven and Earth

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews James McBride’s 2023 novel,The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, which, he argues, deserves all the wonderful press it has gotten. The love and cooperation between poor Jews and Blacks in a small town in Pennsylvania is the backbone of story, a... Read more

Zionism Was Not the Only Alternative!

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
There was another prominent movement among oppressed Jews in the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe: The Bund. Sharon Rudahl is the author of a new graphic history of The Bund. Norm Diamond talks with her about that working class socialist organization, its commitment to the... Read more

Cascade Festival of African Films and The Nyback Show

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland Community College has hosted the Cascade Festival of African Films for 34 years, inviting filmmakers from the African diaspora to Oregon and welcoming the community to attend screenings free of charge. This year's festival co-directors, Eugenie Jolivett Fontana ... Read more

Carol Anderson on Resisting the History of Fascism in the US

Airs at: Mon, 01/22/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  At the annual meetings of the American Historical Association in early January, Dr. Carol Anderson joined a panel of scholars tasked with responding to the question, “Is the United States Turning Toward Fascism”? Jan Haaken talks with Anderson about her comments on the p... Read more

Social History of Abortion in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 01/22/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  During the century that preceded Roe v Wade in 1973, abortion was illegal in Oregon. Even so, women consistently sought and obtained abortions, including from licensed physicians. But whether the practice was officially tolerated or suppressed fluctuated significantly ov... Read more

Jack Ohman - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As part of the 20th anniversary celebration of Words and Pictures, we revisit our January 2005 conversation with Jack Ohman. Jack is the Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist who spend 20 years in Portland drawing cartoons for the Oregonian newspaper before moving ... Read more

KBOO News In-Depth: Vin Shambry on The Black History 101 Mobile Museum

Airs at: Wed, 01/03/2024 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Vin Shambry of Alberta House talks with Lisa Loving about their collaboration with Vanport Mosaic, presenting the Black History 101 Mobile Museum, Friday, January 5, 2024 5:00 PM and Saturday, January 6, 2024 7:30 PM. It’s free and open to the public at the Alberta House, 5... Read more

Keeping It Real, with Lisa Loving on 01/04/24

Airs at: Thu, 01/04/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guests are Twixx Williams, the film director, and Camiren Kazmende from Word Is Bond speaking on their new documentary film "THE BLACK STARS," which debuted at the Hollywood Theater on Jan. 11.  The film follows a journey to Ghana taken last year by young men who parti... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 8th, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole  From Against the Grain, The Nation, Reconsidered host by C.S Soong "Is a world of nation-states desirable? If ultranationalism is pernicious, are some forms of nationalism beneficial? Should struggles framed in terms of ... Read more

Keeping It Real, with Lisa Loving on 12/28/23

Airs at: Thu, 12/28/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Lisa's guests are Malcolm and Mirabai Hoover from Black Futures Farm. Their mission is to heal the connection between Black people and the land by cultivating a healthy place for the Black community to gather in joy. Find out more about them online here. Read more