Jubilee Hall, a nonprofit offshoot of Diaspora Coffee and Chai, will provide barista training and immersive English-language education K hupsamlian (Sam) Khaute is carrying on his family’s tradition of serving hot beverages and providing a gathering space ...
2 Jun 2021 - Janey Wong
The youths see their writing come to life in the theater as part of Project Untangled, a program that helps them with their trauma It was Sunday night, Aug. 11, at the Oregon Children’s Theater in Northeast Portland, and there was a group of adult actors ...
23 Aug 2019 - Casey Miller
COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...
1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
Celebrating 'abrazos no muros' ('hugs not walls') to bring families together The nonprofit Border Network of Human Rights, dedicated to educating and organizing El Paso, Texas, residents and migrants, holds one of the most emotional ev ...
27 Jul 2018 - Iñaki Estívaliz
The Chinese activist, dissident, artist and exile’s new film, 'Human Flow,' focuses on the people the world would rather forget: refugees In his debut feature, “Human Flow,” Chinese artist Ai Weiwei stylishly documents the greatest migration of ...
15 Dec 2017 - Steven MacKenzie
The midfielder is a phenomenal athlete – with a bent for human rights, fine literature and rock ’n’ roll El Maestro. El Rey. St. Valeri. Since arriving in Portland in 2013, Timbers midfielder Diego Valeri has accumulated an array of adoring nicknames. Wi ...
8 Jun 2017 - Jules Boykoff
Tim Cowley has created NewPortlanders.Net, a platform for promoting immigrant- and refugee-run businesses What’s the best way to help immigrants and refugees? It’s a question Tim Cowley’s heard a lot lately. Before moving to Southeast Portland one year ag ...
23 Mar 2017 - Emily Green