B Programs

We’re just barely past Solstice, but at the Eaglecrest ski area, thoughts have already turned to winter. On Wednesday’s Juneau Afternoon: season passes, a campaign to raise money for snow-making and other off-season projects. Also: Monsters, shipwrecks, and sorcerers. Theatre in the Rough has all that and more in its upcoming performance of Shakespeare’s “Tempest.”…

With fireworks and parades, there’s plenty to see in Juneau and Douglas over the July 4th holiday — and quite a sound track to go with it, provided by the Juneau Volunteer Marching Band. It was a festive Friday on Juneau Afternoon with a preview of the band’s concert this Saturday at Marine Park. Also:…

The stereotypes for Blacks have long been a code for racism. Some of it’s blatant. Some of it is subtle but damaging, just the same. In this Thursday’s weekly program, members of the Black Awareness Association of Juneau look at examples of stereotyping and talk about about how to deal with it. Sherry Patterson leads…

  From parades to soap box derbies to bands on the beach, Douglas’ homegrown July 4th celebration is sure to draw big crowds this holiday weekend. On this Wednesday’s Juneau Afternoon, the Douglas July 4th Committee will roll out their plans for a weekend full of fun. Also: One of the biggest barbecues of the…

  Through the work of the Southeast Alaska Land Trust, some prized wetlands north of Douglas are now permanently protected, On  Friday’s Juneau Afternoon, the story of the Grummett Wetlands,  once used extensively for subsistence by the L’eeneidí Clan of the Tlingit Áak’w Kwáan, later a homestead and now preserve. Guests: Jordan Tanguay and Pat…

Even though African Americans make up 13 percent of the population, the American Bar Association says only 5 percent of its lawyers are black. Lori Colbert, who practices family law in Anchorage, says there are even fewer attorneys who are women of color. In this Thursday’s weekly conversation with the Black Awareness Association of Juneau,…