Leaders from Portland nonprofits share their recommendations for summer reading about social and environmental justice SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks We asked Street Roots staff, ...
23 Jun 2021 - Street Roots
Keith Mosman of Powell’s Books in Portland shares his summer reading recommendations SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks Keith Mosman has worked in bookstores, off and on, for 20 year ...
23 Jun 2021 - Street Roots
How three booksellers thrived during one of the toughest years for small businesses in recent history SUMMER READS: Book recommendations from Street Roots' staff, vendors, volunteers, kids and friends. On June 20, Michelle Lewis and Charles Hannah c ...
23 Jun 2021 - Sarah Hansell
The Downstairs Gallery showcases works from BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and disabled artists When Daren Todd opened The Downstairs Gallery in August, he was surviving, accepting opportunities after the coronavirus pandemic took both his bartending gig and his promisi ...
6 Jan 2021 - Andrew Jankowski
The two buildings, which will provide housing for communities of color, will be named after local Black artists Housing, by Harvey Rice’s standards, is the foundation to a strong community. “You have to have a roof over your head and be stable in order to ...
11 Nov 2020 - Sarah Hansell
Lan Cao and her daughter Harlan discuss their memoir, ‘Family in Six Tones,’ and open up about the complexities of their relationship In 1975, Lan Cao left her country of Vietnam to seek refuge in the United States. At the age of 13, she had already faced ...
4 Nov 2020 - Alexandra Mosher
Author Paul K. Haeder discusses his new book, ‘Wide Open Eyes,’ which launches Friday night Author Paul K. Haeder believes that until Americans truly learn from Vietnam, we are doomed to keep repeating the mistakes and abuses that transpired there. At 7 t ...
31 Jul 2020 - Emily Green
A darling of Portland’s contemporary art scene, Yale Union is fighting gentrification by dissolving and giving its $5 million building to a foundation that has big plans for the space “How do you reverse-gentrify?” asked Flint Jamison, co-founder and pre ...
22 Jul 2020 - B. Toastie
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
A new exhibit by the founder of Gather:Make:Shelter reflects a life of sharing her craft among those without Whirling strands of lace or DNA are painted onto large squares of muslin. The fragile filaments touch at tender points and eddy around a core. Del ...
14 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill