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The final mission of Martin Luther King Jr.: Economic, racial and social equality
On April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King Jr. took a courageous risk when he proclaimed his opposition to the Vietnam War. Having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, King took on the mantle of not only a champion of civil rights but also an ardent advocate…
Nuremberg chief prosecutor says the world has not learned
In 1947, Ben Ferencz prosecuted 22 Nazis for crimes against humanity in what The Associated Press called “the biggest murder trial in history.” But in the 72 years since, Ferencz said, the world has not learned from the atrocities committed at the hands of the Nazis. “Instead of spending the money to help the legitimate…
School for teens in recovery is first of its kind in Oregon
On Sept. 3, Harmony Academy will open its doors to any high school student in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse in Portland’s tri-county area. Enrollment at Oregon’s first recovery high school will remain open throughout the year, with no cap on the number of students who will be accepted, although administrators expect a class…
Donna Stoney is making wine – and making history
When Donna Stoney debuts her wine label, Stoney Wines, on Sept. 7, she’ll make history. Stoney is the first recorded black woman winemaker in Oregon. This isn’t Stoney’s only first. In 1988, she was the first black woman to become a Multnomah County human services case manager in Oregon. Just over 16 years ago, she…
Efforts underway to repeal new law allowing undocumented immigrants to drive legally
Efforts to keep undocumented immigrants from driving legally are underway once again – with help from the Oregon Republican Party. Two political hopefuls with ties to Oregonians for Immigration Reform, an anti-immigrant advocacy group based in Salem, have collected 1,000 signatures for Initiative Petition 43, tentatively called Repeal The Equal Access to Roads Act, paving the…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: A strategic salesman
Dale Nye brings decades of newspaper experience to his job as a Street Roots vendor. He began his career with a bicycle paper route in coastal Oregon, which later evolved into a motor route of 200 miles round trip. He delivered The Oregonian and other papers from Lincoln City to Pacific City and along the…
Housing
Homeless shelter opens in River District in Portland
— Photos by Diego Diaz — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler tours a sleeping room Aug. 26, 2019, at the new the new River District Navigation Center. City officials and business leaders on Monday, Aug. 26, unveiled the new River District Navigation Center, the latest of several homeless shelters opening this summer in Portland. Multnomah County…
Student homelessness that touches close to home
She stayed enrolled in school until it was just too difficult. Cheerleading, serving on school council, my grandmother, Marjorie Leahy, bused to school from the Porter Hotel in “Portland’s Skid Row” on Southwest Third Avenue and Pine Street. “It was a crummy hotel with bedbugs,” she wrote in “Good Timber,” a memoir of her childhood…
Opinion
Student homelessness that touches close to home
She stayed enrolled in school until it was just too difficult. Cheerleading, serving on school council, my grandmother, Marjorie Leahy, bused to school from the Porter Hotel in “Portland’s Skid Row” on Southwest Third Avenue and Pine Street. “It was a crummy hotel with bedbugs,” she wrote in “Good Timber,” a memoir of her childhood…
