FINDING FRINGE | Helping the disenfranchised through a housing crisis, Kamikawa brings authenticity to small town politics One caveat for this piece: I have been a substitute teacher in Lincoln County going on a year, spending many days teaching all manne ...
17 Jul 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
OPINION | Under the direction of Street Roots staffer Mallory Smith, our vendors are helping unhoused people take the Census Pops cleaned off a laptop, readying it for the next Census taker. Mask on and wearing a turquoise t-shirt announcing, “We Count St ...
17 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
Josephine has learned to adapt and has stayed true to herself “Everything hit me all at once,” Josephine Allen said. Josephine had been living with domestic violence for more than 20 years. Through counseling, she finally began to understand her situation ...
15 Jul 2020 - Pat Zimmer
Episode 8: The activist and write-in mayoral candidate discusses her nonprofit’s roots and its role in the current uprising On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, Don’t Shoot PDX founder Teressa Raiford joins podcast host DeVon Pouncey to discuss he ...
14 Jul 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
Jeff Hughes, a professional musician, explains how he calmed tensions between police and protesters in the Colorado town where police killed the young Black man AURORA, Colo. — For 30 minutes, it looked as if the vigil for Elijah McClain would be remember ...
14 Jul 2020 - Giles Clasen
The pandemic has created new barriers, says Oregon Association of the Deaf President Jeb Baldridge, who hopes to create more community for deaf and hard-of-hearing people Jeb Baldridge had a decision to make when he graduated from Gallaudet University in ...
13 Jul 2020 - Alexandra Mosher
A bill passed during the special session could help the state's farmers while also sending fewer livestock to the Midwest for slaughter Food and meat processing plants are among workplaces seeing the greatest concentration of COVID-19 cases, both nat ...
12 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Photographer Benjamin Brink captured murals and other street art created as part of Portland’s Black Lives Matter movement Since the start of nightly Black Lives Matter protests in downtown Portland, many structures, sidewalks and plywood panels protectin ...
11 Jul 2020 - Benjamin Brink
Oregon is covered in racist slurs and iconography, and we are all to blame In Portland and many other cities, we’ve come to a time where it’s becoming commonplace to recognize the Native tribes whose land we stand on and from which we prosper. It demonstr ...
10 Jul 2020 - SR editorial board
The author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” discusses how we can collectively harness this moment to transform our economy John Perkins is a well-known author among readers of two seemingly divergent genres. Among his more political-minded readers, ...
9 Jul 2020 - Emily Green