Opinion | Jo Ann Hardesty was subjected to relentless racist and sexist attacks during her tenure on City Council The map is complete, and soon, Portland City Council candidates will announce their intentions to run. Kaia Sand is the executive director of ...
23 Aug 2023 - Kaia Sand
What is it like to hold a crossroads within your body? For many American Muslims, our identities have become a crossroads between familiar and foreign. Between safety and danger. Between belonging and othering. In the years prior to 9/11, people were igno ...
13 Oct 2021 - Anjabeen Ashraf
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon will continue to work together in solidarity across movements to fight for justice An Do serves as executive director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon. T his month, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon c ...
26 May 2021 - An Do
The Black Panthers and other counter-mappers used maps to reimagine cities for communities of color How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and ...
3 Mar 2021 - Derek H. Alderman and Joshua F.J. Inwood
A 25-year study found that being subjected to racism has a direct impact on health and life expectancy, indicating that discrimination is both a health and social problem I’m part of a research team that has been following more than 800 Black American fam ...
14 Dec 2020 - Sierra Carter
To heal, American cities can start with an area that was key to past discrimination: how land is used American cities represent part of the nation’s long and grim history of discrimination and oppression against Black people. They can also be part of the ...
7 Oct 2020 - Mark Roseland and Christopher Boone
Episode 9: The Multnomah County commissioner and ER doctor talks about bearing witness and the health hazards of police tactics On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran discusses the importance of standing ...
24 Jul 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
The pandemic has illuminated long-standing inequities in the American health care system, and it will take a nation to fix them Structural racism in the U.S. seeps into many aspects of Black Americans’ lives. As we’re witnessing with the coronavirus pande ...
7 Jul 2020 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Efforts to confront racism should extend to the fight for climate justice Outrage over the recent police killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd has sparked ever larger street protests with participants demandin ...
30 Jun 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | The monument to Capt. Robert Gray has been seen by countless Oregon Coast tourists and locals for the past two decades On the eastern shoulder of Highway 101, as it runs through the small coastal town of Garibaldi, stands a tall, imposing sta ...
21 Jun 2020 - Helen Hill