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
Unrest lured the Rev. Osagyefo Sekou away from the pulpit and into the streets ‘in the communion of protest’ The Rev. Osagyefo Sekou — organizer, pastor, theologian and author — has found a new calling on the front lines of Ferguson and Baltimore. Sekou ...
19 Jun 2015 - Leonora Ko
What would Portland be like if instead of reacting to social problems, we intentionally planned for social success? What if we worked to ensure social and economic equity with each step forward, rather than scrambling to backfill the scars of gentrificati ...
1 May 2015 - SR editorial board
Film could help her daughters navigate growing up as some of the few people of color in their community in Hillsboro In 2010, Melissa Lowery set out to create a film — her first feature-length film — that could serve as a guidebook for her two daughters. ...
18 Feb 2015 - Sarah Hansell
Born and raised in Northeast Portland, Street Roots vendor George Mayes has been an eyewitness to the many changes Portland has undergone in the past few decades. One of seven children of a longshoreman father from Texas and a railroad worker mother from ...
8 May 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The controversy about the Portland Development Commission’s decision to sell property on the northwest corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and NE Alberta to an out of state developer opens up a ton of questions about the economic future of Portland& ...
30 Jan 2014 - James Posey