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A deep history of bigotry and othering in the U.S.

BOOK REVIEW | "American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants” by Robert E. Bartholomew and Anja E. Reumschüssel In November 1688, an elderly Irish Catholic woman named Ann Glover was hanged in Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wa ...

3 May 2019 - Joe Martin
Writing unlocks the door: Realizing a childhood dream

COMMENTARY | Don’t let anyone crush your creativity. Tell your story. I wanted to write before I could even read. When I was 4 years old, Dad read a lot of children’s books to me, but my favorite was “The Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy.” The cover w ...

5 Apr 2019 - Dustin Dandliker
Roxane Gay looks back at her teenage self

The self-confessed bad feminist and writer talks about trauma, triumph and teenage soaps By Roxane Gay, as told to Anastasia Safioleas Roxane Gay is the author of the books “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” the New York Times bestselling column "Bad Femin ...

5 Apr 2019 - Anastasia Safioleas
Salt, fat, acid and Samin

Writer and TV host Samin Nosrat talks to Street Roots about how she makes cooking accessible to everyone Interviewing Samin Nosrat, even on the phone, is a lot like watching her Netflix show. You can feel her passion and enthusiasm – for life, for food, f ...

8 Mar 2019 - Jason Cohen
The art of identity: Tattoos, movement, prose at Gallery 114

The Portland exhibit and performance series includes literary readings from Street Roots vendors David Slader and Owen Carey don’t have a spot of ink between them, but tattoos are the central theme of their co-exhibition at Gallery 114 in the Pearl Distri ...

1 Mar 2019 - Emily Green
A target of hate: Jonathan Weisman on being Jewish today

The New York Times journalists discusses his new book, which chronicles the rise of anti-Semitism in the age of Donald Trump “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” According to authorities, these are the wor ...

22 Feb 2019 - Ashley Archibald
The misdemeanor trap: Time to pay attention, says Alexandra Natapoff

Every year, millions of low-level offenders are swept up into the criminal justice system People need to start paying attention to how low-level criminal cases are handled in the United States, acclaimed legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff says. Her new book ...

22 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
How technology is harming our ability to feel empathy

Dr. Helen Riess, author of 'The Empathy Effect,' says the way we communicate can influence how and what we feel for others Empathy can be learned, and it can be lost. Every time a person chooses to communicate through text message, email or soc ...

15 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
Lost in Kusamania

Yayoi Kusama, the artist behind the eye-popping, mind-bending, perspective-shifting mirror rooms, is as extraordinary as her art Known for her immersive installations and her bulbous, black-spotted pumpkin sculptures, Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s mo ...

1 Feb 2019 - Keva York
Art, poetry of Terry Houghton to be featured at First Thursday

Years after he died homeless, a treasure trove of his work will finally be seen at Street Roots Sometime around 2012, an elderly homeless man sleeping on a bench in Portland’s downtown park blocks rolled off and hit his head. He was taken to Oregon Health ...

25 Jan 2019 - Helen Hill