The 13-year-old Palestinian journalist and activist sits down with Street Roots to share her perspective on what’s happening to children in the West Bank Sounds of explosives reverberate in the background of the video posted to Facebook on April 20, 2018. ...
9 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
Imam Abdulah Polovina strives to foster understanding among Muslims and non-Muslims alike As he walked softly across the plush, carpet-covered floor of his Southeast Portland mosque, Imam Abdulah Polovina explained that in Islam, there are “99 Beautiful N ...
26 Jan 2018 - Emily Green
Portland’s UNA Gallery is taking back Day of the Dead with performance art and celebration Having grown up in Mexico City, Portland gallery owner Mercedes Orozco fondly remembers celebrating Día de Muertos with her family and neighbors at the beginning of ...
27 Oct 2017 - Emily Green
The Rev. Adam Phillips will give a TEDx talk on inclusion, the foundation of his evangelical practice Pastor Adam Phillips began his sermon on white supremacy with a personal anecdote about walking through a slum in Ghana before arriving at a “door of no ...
29 Sep 2017 - Emily Green
The leader of Congregation Shir Tikvah convened the Portland Interfaith Clergy Resistance after Trump's election Rabbi Ariel Stone felt something ominous in the air. Across the sidewalk from protesters dressed in black and waving banners stood a bloc ...
15 Sep 2017 - Emily Green
Street Roots visits the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education to pose this question President Donald Trump exhibits the characteristics of a demagogue. His attacks on the media, fear mongering, overt lying and the way he plays on people ...
23 Feb 2017 - Emily Green
Climate-change expert Katharine Hayhoe, a scientist and a Christian, is on a mission to change the minds of faith-based climate change deniers Katharine Hayhoe never goes where she’s not invited, and when she accepts an invitation, she usually finds herse ...
19 Jun 2015 - Emily Green