Portland-raised author Renee Watson talks about her new young adult book, "This Side of Home" Author Renée Watson grew up in Portland and lived through the gentrification of her Northeast neighborhood. In 1990, more than 30 percent of Portland’s ...
4 Mar 2015 - Sarah Hansell
Film could help her daughters navigate growing up as some of the few people of color in their community in Hillsboro In 2010, Melissa Lowery set out to create a film — her first feature-length film — that could serve as a guidebook for her two daughters. ...
18 Feb 2015 - Sarah Hansell
Sarah Mirk decided to write her book “ Sex From Scratch ” because, in her words, the majority of what she found in the dating section of her local bookstore “sucked.” Mirk set out to write a book that, rather than offering a series of rules to follow, off ...
19 Nov 2014 - Sarah Hansell
As early as five in the morning, you can find refugee growers kneeling in the dirt of the Refuge Gardens in Damascus. among the rows of broccoli, kale, squash, onions and other autumn crops. Neatly planted vegetables and fruits stretch out across the two ...
23 Oct 2014 - Sarah Hansell
José Gomez was a teenager when the bloody Salvadoran civil war started in 1979 — a war that would last for 13 years, perpetuated by funds and weapons supplied by the U.S. government. Next month, Gomez will his own experiences to Portland where he will spe ...
1 Oct 2014 - Sarah Hansell