Poetry & Art
M. Earl Williams captures culture and context through his art
M. Earl Williams grew up with his family on the Grand Ronde Reservation and started his artistic career as an adventurous skateboarding teen with a camera. Now, with several art degrees in hand, he explores human connections to place and community through his work. Williams, also the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde multimedia communications specialist,…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | Halting tent distribution takes away an essential lifeline
There are details I remember — the winter rain, the distraught woman with her hands shaking and red with cold. Her husband, feverish, lying in water pooling on their tent floor. The firefighter picked up his phone right away and called her by name. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | ‘Street Roots is my backbone right now’
Street Roots vendor Kat Black always reads the last page of a book first before choosing it to try to figure out how the author gets to the end. It is similar to how Kat, who has been on the streets for seven years, approaches life. “Every day you wake up and you don’t know…
