Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ‘bomb’ train Is our weather getting funny? Some bushes and flowers started to bloom near the end of January this year, and in the spring cherry blossoms were blooming weeks early. This capped a winter with ...
30 Jun 2015 - Stephen Quirke
Native Oregonian Nkenge Harmon Johnson on the city and ULPDX's past, present and future Nkenge Harmon Johnson’s legal and political career has taken her from her Pacific Northwest home across the United States and back again. A graduate of the Trinit ...
30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Nkenge Harmon Johnson and Katie Sawicki, of the Urban League of Portland, share insights about the latest State of Black Oregon report June 2015: Last month, the Urban League of Portland released the State of Black Oregon 2015, the second iteration in its ...
30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
After four years on the streets, Edward finally has keys to his own apartment On June 8, 2015, Street Roots vendor Edward Allen moved into his new apartment with the help of Central City Concern’s BEST Team and Community Engagement Program. “I think the b ...
30 Jun 2015 - Cole Merkel
Seattle artist and activist talks about his photojournalistic Facebook project Homeless in Seattle Rex Hohlbein built a nonprofit on the back of a simple Facebook page on homelessness called “Homeless in Seattle.” Hohlbein’s more than 16,000 followers see ...
30 Jun 2015 - Aaron Burkhalter
Author Lidia Yuknavitch’s experiences with addiction, grief, mental illness and motherhood shape her work The first time I saw Lidia Yuknavitch speak, it was at Powell’s Books. Of the speakers that night, only Yuknavitch was unknown to me. As the last syl ...
29 Jun 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
This month, a seldom-quoted document called the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness got a bit of a makeover. It’s only five years old, but the nation’s only comprehensive policy for addressing homelessness was falling behind the times. ...
29 Jun 2015 - SR editorial board
If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator of how much Black Lives Matter in Portland — then we are failing, badly. The latest 2015 Multnomah County Homeless Count was released in early June. If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator ...
29 Jun 2015 - Israel Bayer
For months, we have heard story after story in the national media about young people — often young people of color — who have been abused by our criminal justice system. The latest story, out of New York, was about Kalief Browder, a young man who was arre ...
19 Jun 2015 - Gina Anzaldúa
COMMENTARY | Grateful for the examples of Joe Biden and Ham Fish Jr. On this Father’s Day, my thoughts turn to two fathers — Ham Fish and Joe Biden — and the lessons I learned from both. I have never met Joe Biden, but our families share a common bond. M ...
19 Jun 2015 - Nick Fish