Adam Allen was walking home from a bar when police knocked him down in North Portland, says tort claim Adam Allen had just moved back to Portland after spending five years on the East Coast when he decided to meet an old friend for a drink on Aug. 9. He h ...
19 Aug 2020 - Christen McCurdy
Street Roots asked the new head of Portland Police Bureau about police oversight, protest response, gun violence and more Portland’s new chief of police has had no shortage of media attention. Following the police killing of George Floyd, protests calling ...
15 Aug 2020 - Street Roots Staff
Portland therapists serving the Black community say they’re at capacity as protesters and others fill their appointment slots ZaDora Williams is busier than ever. As a therapist and social worker in Portland who services the African American community, he ...
9 Aug 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Episode 10: Oregon’s U.S. senator discusses his efforts to keep federal forces out of protests, COVID-19 assistance, the detention of children at the border, and more On the 10th episode of the Street Roots Podcast, host DeVon Pouncey is joined by U.S. Je ...
7 Aug 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
Local artists and music curators discuss the beats Portland’s Black Lives Matter movement is marching to A few short months ago, the streets of Portland were eerily quiet, subdued by the uncertainty of COVID-19’s sudden grip on the globe. Now, Portland is ...
4 Aug 2020 - Donovan M. Smith
Some observers are concerned that the national conversation about federal overreach in Portland has overshadowed the Portland Police Bureau’s brutality against protesters As the federal deployment of secretive law enforcement proved violent in the Trump a ...
1 Aug 2020 - Henry Brannan
The U.S. government’s use of force against protesters — and the mothers who are fighting it — bears unmistakable resemblance to Argentina’s Dirty War In 1976, Argentina was on the precipice of a military dictatorship that would result in mass disappearanc ...
29 Jul 2020 - Anna Pedersen