The South Park Blocks erupted in violence, and 21 protesters were hospitalized due to injuries from police beatings With downtown businesses closed, busses on infrequent schedules and few cars on the road, a stroll through Portland’s South Park Blocks tod ...
11 May 2020 - Doug Kenck-Crispin
Anne Mavor's art installation is a tour through her ancestors’ perpetuation of slavery, genocide, persecution Anne Mavor was hoping to collaborate with a Native American artist for her next big project when she had a rude awakening. She was sitting ...
4 Oct 2016 - Emily Green
Gerrard's albums with Hazel Dickens in the ’60s and ’70s paved the way for women in the genre Alice Gerrard, born in Seattle, raised in California and now settled in North Carolina, is an American banjoist, guitar player and singer with a career that ...
18 Jul 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Sharon Gary-Smith reminds community leaders they can call on her outside of February as well The number of calls and emails I’ve received this month to write, to speak, to present on Black History Month has been, at times, overwhelming. I struggle to be r ...
27 Feb 2015 - Sharon Gary-Smith
Local playwright dramatizes Oregon's history of forced sterilization Several years ago, playwright Helen Hill worked with residents of Dignity Village to put on "Filmore Hotel," a play about gentrification. She has now written a new show, & ...
28 Jan 2009 - Street Roots