Elders

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Indigenous People's Day

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  A celebration and acknowledgement of Indigenous people, culture and importance in our current and fragmented social landscape. What can America learn from the humble yet powerful wisdom of the Indigenous people of this land?  Would we be able to stop global degradation a... Read more

Tessa Hulls at the Portland Book Festival

Airs at: Thu, 10/10/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Tessa Hulls' debut as an author is the sprawling graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, a story of her own family, of survival and madness and love, seen through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a century of Chinese history. Tessa is an illustrator, pa... Read more

Dian Greenwood, author of Forever Blackbirds

Airs at: Thu, 10/10/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Dian Greenwood, author of the new novel Forever Blackbirds, from Travelers Moon Press. Dian has published essays in the online magazine The Big Smoke, and is a contributor to the anthology 2020: The Year of the Asterisk from University of Hell... Read more

Supporting Our Society

Airs at: Thu, 10/03/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
The guests are Jeri Kelly, Beth Blumklotz and Kirby Lewis, of Supporting Our Society. They work with African American teenage girls through the Butterfly Program, and they are also celebrating 11 years of providing needed coats and supplies directly to people on the street. Read more

Randall Wyatt, Taking Ownership PDX

Airs at: Thu, 09/19/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest is Randall Wyatt, founder and director of Taking Ownership PDX. They help renovate and revive Black-owned homes that have requested their help, with an emphasis on enabling Black homeowners to age in place, generate wealth and simultaneously deter predatory invest... Read more

Economic Degrowth, with Rachel Cheeseman

Airs at: Wed, 09/18/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
    Guest: Rachel Cheeseman     ------ Host: Grace Growing Medicine Reed    ------   Rachel and Grace discuss what it means to embrace economic degrowth, and the dynamics of a spiritualized economy and capitalism.   ----       Read more

A Heatwave Evening with Bill McKibben

Airs at: Mon, 07/15/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
At the start of Portland’s first heatwave this summer at the end of a traumatic week for our nation, longtime climate activist and journalist Bill McKibben came to Portland to speak at a gathering sponsored by the Third Act Oregon. In 2008 McKibben co-founded 350.org, which... Read more

Hanford Journey

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Since time immemorial the Yakama Nation lived along a stretch of the Columbia River now known as the Hanford Reach. This area provided sources of food and medicines and contains many sacred sites, like Gable and Rattlesnake mountains, and the white bluffs that peer down fro... Read more

Great Mystery Power, The Hopi, Sacred Places and more

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Join us today on a special episode with Grace Growing Medicine Reed, host of Negotiating Dramatic Events.    Grace is a prolific 82 year old mental health professional, social worker and activist; a multi sclerosis patient and passionate speaker.  She joins us from her h... Read more

LGBTQIA2S+ Heritage | Live Panel 2: Elders

Airs at: Tue, 06/11/2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Here at KBOO, we will be celebrating 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, 503-231-8187 ... Read more