After a four-month closure, the Salvation Army Female Emergency Shelter opens its renovated facility with a bevy of new programs After four months of being closed, the Salvation Army Female Emergency Shelter, an institution in Portland since 1999, reopene ...
20 Dec 2019 - Sarah Hansell
The longtime case manager and service provider for people with disabilities is Oregon’s first black woman winemaker on record When Donna Stoney debuts her wine label, Stoney Wines, on Sept. 7, she’ll make history. Stoney is the first recorded black woman ...
30 Aug 2019 - Sarah Hansell
The nonprofit Homeless Youth Law Clinic assists with legal issues that go far beyond housing When Demetris Taylor-Brown, at age 21, learned his girlfriend was pregnant, he made some big decisions. He turned down his scholarship to Grambling State Universi ...
24 May 2019 - Sarah Hansell
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 Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice works with more than 140 faith communities in Oregon “Unshackle Oregon. Let our people go!” It was one of the chants that could be heard through the rain on the first Friday of October at a rally in Hood Rive ...
12 Oct 2018 - Sarah Hansell
The activist, who will speak in Portland, wants women of color to know they’re not alone Dior Vargas is a Latina feminist mental health activist whose work has appeared in publications such as Forbes, Newsweek and The Guardian, and whose many awards inclu ...
14 Sep 2018 - Sarah Hansell
‘PDX’s greatest assets’ are struggling on minimum wages Despite being on the job for only three years, George Van Gorder, wheelchair inspector at Portland International Airport, enjoys a senior status. Close to 70 years old, Van Gorder is a father, a gran ...
20 Jul 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Employees, passengers of the ride service for people with disabilities say contractor brushes off complaints Imagine that you’ve just arrived at work, and you are immediately informed it is time for your first break. Within the next two hours, you also mu ...
15 Jun 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Leanne Serbulo, Portland State University housing and segregation researcher, talks to Street Roots about the landmark legislation Fifty years ago, a national advisory body known as the Kerner Commission released its landmark report on the causes behind t ...
20 Apr 2018 - Sarah Hansell
A storytelling event will share perspectives of an experience advocates say many can relate to When first-generation Samoan-American Justin Sipoloa went to Astor Elementary School in the early 1980s, he was one of the few brown faces in a sea of white one ...
16 Mar 2018 - Sarah Hansell