Jeff Hughes, a professional musician, explains how he calmed tensions between police and protesters in the Colorado town where police killed the young Black man AURORA, Colo. — For 30 minutes, it looked as if the vigil for Elijah McClain would be remember ...
14 Jul 2020 - Giles Clasen
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
‘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
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
Angie Thomas was afraid YA readers wouldn’t want a novel that explored police brutality and a black teenage experience. It turns out they did. “The Hate U Give” is an award-winning young adult novel mesmerizing teens and adults alike who delve into its pa ...
18 Aug 2017 - Lisa Edge
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education plans a grand opening at its new location On Sunday, June 11, the public is invited to peruse several captivating exhibits, free of charge, at the grand opening of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Ce ...
8 Jun 2017 - Emily Green