The congressman from Portland hopes to flip the script on centuries of government-sanctioned discrimination Congressman Earl Blumenauer doesn’t consider himself naive. He’s been in politics most of his life, from the Portland City Council to serving Orego ...
13 Sep 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
His rhetoric is what 'I would have done, things I would have said,' says a former white supremacist In the early morning hours of July 14, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to lash out at four progressive congresswomen of color known as “Th ...
9 Aug 2019 - Adam Sennott
‘Night Dogs’ exposes racial and economic disparity in 1970s Portland The scene is Portland, Ore. A largely African-American community has been laid-off, bulldozed and forgotten, its neighborhoods awash in poverty and drugs. The police, even according to o ...
28 Jun 2019 - Jason Cohen
BOOK REVIEW | “Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Interviews” by Stephen Smith and Catherine Ellis In 1964, Robert Penn Warren, the famed white writer, interviewed a number of black leaders – organizers and writers – and eventually published a lengthy ...
7 Jun 2019 - Mike Wold
Portland’s Old Town is well known as Chinatown, but in the late 1800s through 1942, a number of blocks made up Nihonmachi, or Japantown JAPANESE-AMERICAN CHILDREN who grew up in Northwest Portland’s Japantown in the 1930s remember it as a safe, happy pla ...
11 Jan 2019 - Libby Dowsett
Ron Stallworth, the African-American detective who infiltrated the KKK in 1978, talks to Street Roots about his observations undercover In October 1978, Detective Ron Stallworth infiltrated the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, making him the ...
26 Oct 2018 - Adam Sennott
The activist, who will speak in Portland, wants women of color to know they’re not alone Dior Vargas is a Latina feminist mental health activist whose work has appeared in publications such as Forbes, Newsweek and The Guardian, and whose many awards inclu ...
14 Sep 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Iranian-born Mina Dennert is leading a movement that challenges racial hatred in Sweden She woke up with her hair cut off and her body covered in Nazi symbols. She was 14 years old. In the white, rich and apparently peaceful area of Kullavik, south of Got ...
27 Jul 2018 - Sarah Britz
We won't end racism until we end capitalism, says the radical thinker, writer and labor leader Gun enthusiasm is rooted more in racial suppression than in the Second Amendment, Bill Fletcher Jr. told an audience at the SeaTac Hilton in April. From th ...
11 May 2018 - Emily Green
The former NBA player talks to Street Roots about activism in sports; his new book, ‘We Matter’; and his interviews with families of unarmed victims The 2018 NBA postseason is in full swing. This is the platform that has created historic basketball moment ...
20 Apr 2018 - DeVon Pouncey