A therapist, medical doctors, journalists and a firefighter are in the thick of today's crises A month of utter destruction caused by devastating wildfires. Four months of nightly standoffs with protesters standing up for Black lives and against poli ...
7 Oct 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Portland is center stage in a federal crackdown on protests that relies largely on social media surveillance — but activists are adapting With Portland at the center of the Trump administration’s push to quash protests and paint protesters as “violent ana ...
23 Sep 2020 - Henry Brannan and Joe Opaleski
To some of the people marching in support of Black lives, the same flag represents very different values A special agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation couldn’t have profiled Xander Almeida anymore inaccurately. In a backyard in Northeast Port ...
2 Sep 2020 - Ellena Rosenthal
Beneath the waves of protests, these lawyers are challenging police and policy F rom the periphery of what is approaching 100 days of protests in Portland, a group of local attorneys keeps a watchful eye. And they have good reason. Since the police killin ...
26 Aug 2020 - Jessica Pollard
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
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