‘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
COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...
1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
Richard Wilhelm and Sue Arbuthnot discuss their new film, "Refuge," about the 2016 Bundy occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge What is a refuge? Is refuge what we would call home? Are we fleeing from something – or someone – when we ...
25 Jan 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
Stark Street was once the heart of LGBTQ+ culture, but now ‘we can go anywhere,’ says Walter Cole, better known as the legendary drag queen Darcelle XV PORTLAND, 1964 and 1965: Mayor Terry Schrunk declared war on bars frequented by gays and lesbians follo ...
11 Jan 2019 - Sarah Hansell
The actor turned activist has become an everyman in the center of national controversies, from #MeToo to the Kavanaugh hearings Thanks to her tweet in October last year, actor and activist Alyssa Milano transformed Tarana Burke’s grassroots #MeToo campaig ...
16 Nov 2018 - The Big Issue A...
Abigail DeVille’s installation at PICA features Street Roots papers, vendor artwork Portland’s Institute for Contemporary Art’s 16,000-square-foot exhibition space in Northeast Portland is the site of Bronx-based artist Abigail DeVille’s massive installat ...
16 Nov 2018 - Helen Hill
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
Underrepresented elsewhere, First Nations people in Canada are working to create an Indigenous Walk of Fame to commemorate their work in the entertainment industry There is only one Indigenous person on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame: Jay Silverheels, the Mohaw ...
14 Sep 2018 - Cam Welch
'Songs from the Shadows,' featuring songs by people who have experienced sexual trauma, will bring awareness to human trafficking and exploitation The present is reaching back to heal the past deep in the subterranean passageways beneath Portlan ...
17 Aug 2018 - Helen Hill
How farmworkers, nationally and in Oregon, are faring in an age of rising temperatures, immigration crack-downs, housing insecurity and uncertainty At the height of a sweltering afternoon in late July, more than a hundred people descended from a caravan o ...
3 Aug 2018 - Emily Green